Press release from Panasonic Australia
Panasonic Australia is set to release the PT-AR100E, a versatile LCD Projector that lets viewers enjoy Full-HD entertainment on a large screen – from Sunday afternoon sports to movies and games – in various lighting conditions.
The PT-AR100E Full High-Definition LCD Home Entertainment Projector offers 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) resolution. It produces bright, sharp images by employing a new, high-powered 280-watt Red-Rich Lamp and optical unit that generates 2,800 lumens of brightness; and features a 50,000:1 contrast ratio.
The advanced Light Harmonizer 3 automatically adjusts the picture quality to match living room conditions. Built-in ambient light and color sensors adjust the white balance, gamma curve and sharpness settings to maintain bright, crisp pictures.
“Australians who love their sports, movies and gaming will find the PT-AR100E the perfect addition to their home theatre set-up. The projector is easy to use straight out of the box, with stunningly bright pictures and brilliant image clarity,” said Chris Maw, Product Manager – Projectors, Panasonic Australia.
“Furthermore, with seven different picture modes, users can enjoy their chosen content with the optimal settings, making for an unbeatable home entertainment experience,” he said.
The Panasonic PT-AR100E Full High-Definition LCD Home Entertainment Projector is available in December from selected home entertainment retailers, priced at $3079rrp. For more information, visit www.panasonic.com.au or call 132 600.
Key Features
Superior Image Quality
Consumers can enjoy exceptional performance thanks to Panasonic’s Hollywood tuning – a process involving Panasonic's collaboration with leading Hollywood filmmakers to ensure that the projector produces images that mirror the director’s artistic vision and intent.
The PT-AR100E is equipped with many advanced optical components, such as the Dynamic Iris Pro and Pure Color Filter Pro which help reproduce a stunning 50,000:1 contrast ratio and exceptional color accuracy.
The intelligent Dynamic Iris Pro adjusts the PT-AR100E optical iris, the Red-Rich Lamp and gamma curve[i] 60 times per second to produce beautiful images with accurate black levels and shadow detail. The PT-AR100E Pure Color Filter Pro achieves a high purity level of the three primary colors—red, green and blue—while displaying deeper, purer blacks, for a more natural colour appearance. In addition, the PT-AR100E excels at showing fine detail thanks to the proprietary Detail Clarity Processor 3 engine.
With the powerful light output and the extended dynamic range, the PT-AR100E comes equipped with a total of seven different picture modes that provides optimal performance for different video content. They include: Sports, Game, Cinema1, Vivid Cinema, Normal, REC709 and Dynamic mode.
In Sports mode, users can enjoy games with minimal frame delay and image tuning that brings the action home. While in Game mode, picture quality characteristics have been specifically tuned to reveal more image details in the dark or over-saturated areas that are prevalent in many games. Together with the preset picture mode, the Motion Effect function ensures that the fast-moving images are crisp and clear. This new technology detects and analyses the brightness and frequency distribution data of the image. Based on this analysis, it optimises the sharpness along a time axis to maintain naturally sharp images for the best possible viewing.
The PT-AR100E also offers additional options for enthusiast home theatre viewers, with a built-in Waveform monitor allowing the user to view waveforms on the screen and adjust settings to make sure that the full dynamic range is in use. Furthermore, the Split Adjust Mode provides an easy to navigate solution for those looking to adjust different picture settings on the projector.
Convenient Connectivity Options and Easy Installation
Initial setup and installation are quick and easy, because the 2x zoom casts a 120-inch diagonal image from as close as 3.5 metres to 7 metres from the screen. The projector’s lens shift capability enables 68 percent vertical adjustment and 26 percent horizontal adjustment.
The PT-AR100E is also equipped with two HDMI™ inputs (supporting x.v.Color™ and Deep Color), so multiple HD sources can be connected without an HDMI switcher. Automation, such as lighting and a motorised screen, is possible with the PT-AR100E because it comes equipped with two programmable 12-volt trigger terminals and VIERA Link®. VIERA Link® provides seamless operation of multiple VIERA Link® compatible Panasonic devices by using the PT-AR100E remote control.
Superb Eco Performance
The projector’s new Eco Management function reduces power consumption depending on different parameters, for example, ambient light conditions and situations when no signal is input to the projector. Users can set an off-timer to reduce wasteful power consumption when the projector is left running. Advanced Panasonic digital circuitry intelligently determines the necessary power output of the lamp depending on the content being displayed by analysing more than 3 billion different image patterns. This advanced analysis process reduces the main power consumption by as much as 10 percent when the Dynamic Iris Pro function is operating. The PT-AR100E also has a low standby power consumption of 0.08 watt.