Got a large living room, nine grand in your pocket, and an obsession with home cinema? Then have we got a treat for you: Fujitsu's P63XHA51ES. As for everyone else, well, you can always dream...

As far as a 63in screen ever can be, the P63XHA51ES is designed to be subtle, with a slender bezel and a restrained silvery colour scheme. Note, though, that no speakers are built in - and Fujitsu's own options cost a whopping £500. Still, we reckon most people considering buying the P63XHA51ES will have a separate sound system.

We've been careful so far to call the P63XHA51ES a screen, not a TV. For as with many Fujitsu plasmas, it doesn't have a built-in TV tuner. Again, though, likely owners will probably get their TV from some sort of external receiver anyway.

Rather more irritating is the inclusion of just one HDMI socket - pathetically stingy for such a potentially dreamy home cinema option, There's only one component video input too, and just two Scarts.

Features are in pretty short supply as well. In fact, the only thing worth mentioning is Fujitsu's Advanced Video Movement II processing, which includes techniques for improving picture quality such as keeping edges free of ghosting and 'haloes', smoothing away jaggedness on contoured edges, and reducing MPEG and mosquito noise.

This sounds good on paper - and works fantastically in practice. Unleashed on an HD Sky broadcast of Spider-Man 2, the P63XHA51ES's fine detail levels immediately look sensational, with every last little brick of seemingly every building in New York being rendered to perfection.

AVM II does a superlative job of suppressing video noise, too - something that's partly apparent in the clarity of the fine detailing, and partly in the lack of grain and dot crawl.

This Fujitsu also excels with colours, handling both the richness of Spidey's suit and the more muted flavour of interiors like Peter's gran's flat with equal aplomb - and a likeable flare for naturalism.

Back in black

The Fujitsu's black levels are outstanding too, achieving real, cinematic blackness during dark scenes like Doc Ock's hospital massacre, while also having the grayscale finesse to reveal all the subtle background details in Doc Ock's river lab, helping give it a sense of scale and three-dimensionality.

In an ideal world Spidey's suit might look slightly more vibrant, and the occasional signs of fizzing noise over horizontal motion would be removed. But neither of these things prevent the P63XHA51ES being the finest 60in-plus flat screen yet.