Panasonic Projector Pt Ax100e Specifications

							
High Definition 
Home Cinema Projector
PTAX100E
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The awesome power of a large screen.
The stunning detail of highdefinition.
The beauty of bright, vivid images.
Enjoy all of this,right in your living room...
with the PTAX100E.     
						

							
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ABig Screen Means 
More Fun, 
More Power, 
More Emotion
Who would you like to see up close? A
Hollywood movie star? Your team’s best football
player? Your favourite guitarist? Imagine the thrill of
sitting in a front row seat, seeing them perform live. That’sthe kind of thrill you get with
P anasonic’s PTAX100E home cinema projector.
The PTAX100E lets you see the biggest
stars in largerthanlife size, right in your living
room, anytime you want. Fill a big screen (up to 200
inches diagonal) with Panasonic’s remarkably clear,
vivid, highdefinition images, and you’ll discover
things y oud never see on a small screen.
Until you meet your favourite stars in real
life, Panasonic PTAX100E will get you closer to
them than you’ve ever imagined.
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You want to watch a big match or concert DVD on a large
screen, but you don’t want to close the drapes or turn off the
lights. Then the Panasonic PTAX100E is right for you. With 2,000
lumens of brightness—brightest in its class*
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Light Harmoniser, the PTAX100E produces bright, beautiful,
easytosee images even in a welllit room.
2,000Lumen Brightness—Brightest in its Class*1
P anasonic specially developed an extremely powerful new lamp
f or the PTAX100E. Combined with the highperf ormanceoptic al
system, it delivers 2,000lumen brightness, brightest in its class.*
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Outstanding 2,000lumen brightness 
and int elligent Light Harmoniser
Images are crisp, bright and easy to see—even in a welllit room.
A1,000lumen c lass projector
without Light HarmoniserThe PT AX100E with 
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Front row centre seats.
The action is more thrilling than ever when you’re
watching bright, highdefinition images on a big screen.
Intelligent Light Harmoniser
With the PTAX100E, images are crisp, vivid and easy to see
even in the kind of bright lighting that makes images from other
projectors look whitish, faded or lacking in detail. Panasonic’s
Light Harmoniser technology makes home cinema more fun than
ever. Now you can get together with friends to watch movies,
sports and concert performances in normal room lighting—and
still enjoy clear, brilliant images with crisp detail.
Abuiltin ambient light sensor (ALS) measures the room brightness, and the
Light Harmoniser circuit adjusts the gamma curve according to both the mea
sured brightness and the input signal*
2. This maintains easy, comfortable view
ing in all lighting conditions.
ALS
Light Harmoniser
circuit
Gamma cur ve
correction
*1: For LCD projectors with native resolution of 720p, as of August 31, 2006.
*2: The Light Harmoniser is set to  Auto at the factory. There’s also Manual mode if you want to finetune
the picture yourself.
PTAX100EHigh Definition Home Cinema Projector
The awesome power of a large screen.
The stunning detail of highdefinition.
The beauty of bright, vivid images.
Enjoy all of this, right in your living room...
with the PTAX100E.           
						

							
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The PTAX100E is a highspecifications model developed espe
cially for home theatre use. It incorporates all of Panasonic’s
highly acclaimed home cinema projector technologies. No com
promises were made in its development or production. The
result is a projector that provides exceptional viewing with all
kinds of content. You can spend the afternoon cheering for your
favourite football team, then in the evening dim the lights and
immerse yourself in a great movie. 
PureCol our Filt er
The new Pure Colour Filter was born from Panasonic’s tireless
pursuit of optical technology that delivers true “Hollywood” pic ture quality. The lamp is adjusted to pro
duce a level of light that maximises the
performance of the LCD panels, which
expands the colour range and produces
truer blacks. You will see the improve
ment in movies especially—deeper, richer
blacks, more vibrant colour, and a more
dynamic overall viewing experience.
Pur
eCol our Filter produces 
deep, rich blacks and bright, vivid colours
Holl ywood Tuning—so you see movies with the colour nuances the director intended.
In developing the Pure Colour F ilter,Panasonic carefully determined the type of
ma terials, number of filter layers, and filter thicknesses tha twould a ttain optimal
‘Hollywood tuning’ —i.e., image characteristics best suited for movie viewing.       
						

							
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Best seat at the cinema. 
Just dim the lights and enjo y your o wn priv ate 
home theatr e.
Technolog y that captures the artistic sensibility of a top 
Hollywood colourist
P anasonic worked with leading Hollywood colourist Da vid Bernstein to achieve
one of the most accura te image reproduction possible. This led to our devel
oping new integra ted circuitryand core ima ge optimisers tha tallo w the 
PT AX100E to deliver true  ‘Hollywood picture quality’—or ima ges that faithful
ly express the director’ sartistic intent.
Panasonic Hollywood Laborator y (PHL)— Where Hollywood 
picture quality begins
F or the past decade, PHL has conducted research into digital cinema, DVD
video compression, and digital conversion of film stock. Now it is working to
crea te standards for nextgenera tion optical media using Bluray Disc and pro 
jection technolog y based on HD ima ge compression.PHL’s c lose rela tions with
leading Hollywood studio
technicians, directors,cine
ma togra phers and colourists
played a key role in our
developing the PT AX100E.
Made by Panasonic, T uned by Holl ywood
David Bernstein is a top Hollywood colourist
whose expertise is evident in the telecine*
process for numerous successful films.
* Telecine process: How film is transferred to video.
PTAX100EHigh Definition Home Cinema Pr ojector
The a wesome power of a large screen.
The stunning detail of highdefinition.
The beauty of bright, vivid images.
Enjoy all of this, right in your living room...
with the PT AX100E.               
						

							
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Pack ed with imaging t echnologies ac claimed by pr ofes sionals
Dynamic Iris and Dynamic Gamma
The Dynamic Iris helps pr ovide the deeper, richer blacks needed
f or true image r eproduction. This t echnology adjus ts the lamp
po wer, iris and gamma curv e accor ding t o data obtained fr om
fr amebyfr ame histogr am anal ysis of the image brightnes s
l e vel. The adjus tments are made 60 times per sec ond. 
The wide iris r ange, combined with his togr am anal ysis that
det ects as many as 3,000,000,000 brightnes s and darkness lev
els, pr ovides bright er bright sc enes and deeper, richer blacks.
The Dynamic Gamma boos ts the brightness level of image
det ails that w ould otherwise be l ost in dark ar eas. You see the
kind of true, deep blacks y ouve seen bef ore onl y at the cinema. Dark scene:
with iris
closed Bright scene:
with iris
opened
PT
AX100E
Without the Dynamic Iris
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AX100E
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Smooth Screen Technology
Smooth Screen technology,
developed exclusively by
Panasonic, effectively
reduces the “chicken wire
effect”—the black lines
between pixels that mar
picture quality. The high
definition picture of the 
PTAX100E is remarkably
smooth and filmlike, while
remaining amazingly sharp
and detailed. 
Dynamic Sharpnes sContr ol
Conventional projectors
emphasise sharpness with
out regardfor brightness
differences. This can cause a
halo or ring effect around
object edges, r educing their
threedimensionality.
Dynamic Sharpness Control
sharpens onl ythe pixels in the image areas where there is a
small change in brightness level. This greatly reduces noise
amplification and delivers clear, naturallooking images.
Cinema Col our Management (CCM)
CCM makes it possible to reproduce images that closely match
the colourist’s intention. Before CCM was developed, correcting
one c olour aff ected c ertain others. This proven technology now
all ows individual correction of approximately 1,070,000,000
colours, and it also controls both contrast and brightness. With
CCM, c olour c orrection mor eclosely approximates the process
used f or motion pictures.
Seven Pictur eModes
The ylet you select the picture characteristics that best match
the sour ce mat erial at the t ouch of a butt on. 
User Equalising Function
The PTAX100E lets you decide how images look on your screen.
In each of seven preset picture modes, you can adjust the high,
mid and low gamma levels. Thats a total of 34,391 possible set
ting combinations. Also, the control screens are more legible and
easier to use
than in previous
models. This
makes cus
tomising the
picture easier
and gives you
better results.
Up to three
sets of adjus t
ment settings
can be stored
in memory .
SceneAdaptive Resizing LSI
Ane w image pr ocessing engine improves quality when resizing
480P images or those from other sources with resolution lower
than the PTAX100E’s native resolution. This lets you enjoy beau
tiful images fr om your existing video tape and DVD library.
SceneAdaptive MPEG Noise Reduction
This new noise reduction system detects the amount of change
in the input signal fr om one scene tothe ne xt, and c alculates
the amount of noise t oremove accordingly. It effectively blocks
regular noise and minimises mosquito noise.
10Bit F ull Digital Processing
This enables the PTAX100E to display 1,070,000,000 colours
(1,024 s teps of gr adation) fr om video sour ces. Also, gamma c or
r ection is applied separ ately to the red, green, and blue signals,
allowing for ultrafine image quality adjustment with a high pre
cision of 0.01%. 
Progressive Cinema Scan (3/2 Pulldown) and HD IP
This function det ects when the input signal is deriv ed from
filmed mat erial. HD IP then all ows the PTAX100E to convert the
signals and attain higher image quality than was possible with
c onv entional models.
Adv anced t echnol ogies in an el egant form.
Styling that harmonises with any int erior decor.
Colour before
adjustment Adjusted
colour
Cursor
Recommended for dark roomsCinema 1
A calm,gentle ima ge setting for wa tching movies.Supervised
by Da vid Bernstein, aleading Hollywood colourist.
Cinema 2 An image setting emphasising deep, rich colour reproduction.
Suitable for older film c lassics.
Na tural An image setting designed to faithfully reproduce the colours
of the ima ge source.
Video Suitable for video sources, such as music video clips and
concerts.
Recommended for bright roomsNormal A general image setting suitable for a variety of ima ge
sources, such as sports programs and video games.
Dynamic An image setting designed for use in a brightly lit room.
Vivid Cinema An image setting designed for wa tching movies in a brightly
lit room. Conventional 
“chicken wire”
effect
PT
AX100E:
Smooth, theatre
like ima ges
Without Dynamic
Sharpness ControlPTAX100E
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The awesome power of a large screen.
The stunning detail of highdefinition.
The beauty of bright, vivid images.
Enjoy all of this, right in your living room...
with the PTAX100E.
Attractive styling, flexible installation
IMAGE SIZE / PRO JECTION DIST ANCE      L(L W/L T)
L ScreenS
SH  SWL(L W/L T)
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SHScreenSW
102.5mm
(41/32˝)  SW SH
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of SH63%
of SH
25% o fSW 2 5% ofSW Shift  range
Scree n(st anda rd po sition)  Diagonallength Im age height (SH) Projection  size(16:9) Pr ojection d istance ( L)
Image width (S W) Min .dis tance (L W) Ma x. distanc e(LT)1.01 m
1.27 m1.52 m1.77 m2.03 m2.28 m2.54 m
3.05 m
3.81 m5.08 m0.50 m
0.62 m0.75 m0.87 m1.00 m1.12 m1.24 m
1.49 m
1.87 m2.49 m0.89 m
1.11 m1.33 m1.55 m1.77 m1.99 m2.21 m
2.66 m
3.32 m4.43 m1.2 m
1.5 m1.8 m2.1 m2.4 m2.7 m3.1 m
3.7 m
4.6 m6.2 m2.4 m
3.0 m3.7 m4.3 m4.9 m5.5 m6.2 m
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