Panasonic Projector Pt Ax100U Specifications

							
High Definition 
H ome Cinema Projector
PTAX100U
Get Cl oser 
To Your 
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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 PT
AX100U.     
						

							
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Mor
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Who w ould y ou lik e t o see up cl ose? A
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ood mo vie s t ar? Y our t eam’ s bes t f ootball
play
er? Y our f av orit e guit aris t? Imagine the thrill of
sitting in a fr ont r o w seat, seeing them perf orm liv e.
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s the kind of thrill y ou get with
P
anasonic’ s PTAX100U home cinema pr oject or .
The PTAX100U l ets y ou see the bigges t st a rs
in lar
gerthanlif e size, right in y our living r oom, any
time y
ou want. Fill a big scr een (up t o 200 inches
diagonal) with P anasonic’ s r emarkabl y cl ear, vivid,
highdefinition images, and y ou’ll disc o v er things
y
ou’d ne v er see on a small scr een.
Until y ou meet y our f av orit e s t ar s in r eal lif e,
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anasonic PTAX100U will get y ou cl oser t o them
than y
ou’v e e v er imagined.
PTAX100UHigh Definition Home Cinema Pr oject or       
						

							
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You want t owat ch 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 PTAX100U is right for you. With
2,000 lumens of brightnes s—brightestin its class*
1—plus
Panasonic’s Light Harmonizer, the PTAX100U produces bright,
beautiful, easytosee images even in a welllit room.
2,000Lumen Brightness—Brightest in its Class*1
Panasonic specially developed an extremely powerful new lamp
for the PTAX100U. Combined with the highperformance optical
system, it delivers 2,000lumen brightness, brightest in its class.*
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Outstanding 2,000lumen brightness 
and intelligent Light Harmonizer
Images ar ecrisp, bright and easy t osee—e ven in a w elllit room.
A1,000lumen c lass projector
without Light HarmonizerThe PT AX100U with 
Light Harmonizer         
						

							
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Front row center seats.
The action is more thrilling than ever when you’re
watching bright, highdefinition images on a big screen.
Intelligent Light Harmonizer
With the PTAX100U, images are crisp, vivid and easy to see
even in the kind of bright lighting that makes images from other
project orslook whitish, faded or lacking in detail. Panasonic’s
Light Harmonizer technology makes home cinema more fun than
ever. Now you can get together with friends to watch movies,
sports and c oncert perf ormances in normal room lighting—and
still enjoy clear, brilliant images with crisp detail.
A builtin ambient light sensor (ALS) measures the room brightness, and the
Light Harmonizer 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 Harmonizer
circuit
Gamma cur ve
correction
*1: For LCD projectors with native resolution of 720p, as of August 31, 2006.
*2: The Light Harmonizer is set to Auto at the factory. There’s also Manual mode if you want to finetune
the picture yourself.
PTAX100UHigh 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 PTAX100U.           
						

							
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The PTAX100U is a highspecifications model developed espe
cially for home theater use. It incorporates all of Panasonic’s
highly acclaimed home cinema projector technologies. No com
pr omises w eremade 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
f av orit efootball team, then in the evening dim the lights and
immerse yourself in a great movie. 
Pure Color Filter
The new Pure Color Filter was born from Panasonic’s tireless
pursuit of optical technology that delivers true “Hollywood” pic tur
equality .The lamp is adjus ted to pro
duce a level of light that maximizes the
performance of the LCD panels, which
e xpands the c olor range and produces
truer blacks. You will see the improve
ment in movies especially—deeper, richer
blacks, mor evibr ant c olor, and a more
dynamic overall viewing experience.
Pure Color Filter produces 
deep, rich blacks and bright, vivid colors
Holl ywood T uning —so you see movies with the color nuances the director intended.
In developing the Pure Color Filter, Panasonic carefully determined the type of
materials, number of filter layers, and filter thicknesses that would attain 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 enjoy your own private 
home theater.
Technolog ythat captures the artistic sensibility of a top 
Hollywood colorist
Panasonic worked with leading Hollywood colorist David Bernstein to achieve
one of the most accura te image reproduction possible. This led to our devel
oping new integrated circuitry and core image optimizers that allow the 
PTAX100U to deliver true ‘Hollywood picture quality’—or images that faithful
ly express the director’s artistic intent.
P anasonic Hollywood Laborator y(PHL)— Where Hollywood 
picture quality begins
For the past decade, PHL has conducted research into digital cinema, DVD
video compression, and digital conversion of film stock. Now it is working to
create standards for nextgeneration optical media using Bluray Disc and pro
jection technology based on HD image compression. PHL’s close relations with
leading Hollywood studio
technicians, directors,cine
matographers and colorists
played a key role in our
developing the PT AX100U.
Made by Panasonic, Tuned by Hollywood
David Bernstein is a top Hollywood colorist
whose expertise is evident in the telecine*
process for numerous successful films.
* Telecine process: How film is transferred to video.
PTAX100UHigh 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 PTAX100U.               
						

							
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Pack ed with imaging t echnol ogies ac claimed by pr of es sionals
Dynamic Iris and Dynamic Gamma
The Dynamic Iris helps pro vide the deeper, richer blacks needed
f
or true image r epr oduction. This t echnol ogy adjus ts the lamp
po
w er, iris and gamma curv e ac c or ding t o dat a obt ained fr om
fr
amebyfr ame his t ogr am anal ysis of the image brightnes s
l
e v el. The adjus tments ar e made 60 times per sec ond. 
The wide iris r
ange, c ombined with his t ogr am anal ysis that
det
ects as many as 3,000,000,000 brightnes s and darknes s l e v
els, pr
o vides bright er bright sc enes and deeper, richer blacks.
The Dynamic Gamma boos
ts the brightnes s l e v el of image
det
ails that w ould otherwise be l os t in dark ar eas. Y ou see the
kind of true, deep blacks y
ou’v e seen bef or e onl y at the cinema. Dark scene:
with iris
closed Bright scene:
with iris
opened
PTAX100U
Without the Dynamic Iris
PT
AX100U
Without the Dynamic Iris                 
						

							
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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 
PTAX100U is remarkably
smooth and filmlik e, while
r emaining amazingl ysharp
and detailed. 
Dynamic Sharpnes sContr ol
Conventional projectors
emphasize sharpness with
out regardfor brightnes s
differences. This can cause a
halo or ring effect around
object edges, r educing their
threedimensionality.
Dynamic Sharpness Control
sharpens onl ythe pix els in the image ar eas where there is a
small change in brightness level. This greatly reduces noise
amplification and delivers clear, naturallooking images.
Cinema Color Management (CCM)
CCM makes it possible to reproduce images that closely match
the colorist’s intention. Before CCM was developed, correcting
one c olor aff ected c ertain others. This proven technology now
all ows individual correction of approximately 1,070,000,000 colors,
and it also controls both contrast and brightness. With CCM,
c ol or c orrection mor eclosely approximates the process used for
motion pictur es.
Seven Pictur eModes
The ylet you select the picture characteristics that best match
the source material at the touch of a button. 
User Equalizing Function
T he PTAX100U 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. That’s 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
tomizing the
pictur eeasier
and giv es you
better results.
Up t othree
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 PTAX100U’s native resolution. This lets you enjoy beau
tiful images fr om your e xisting video tape and DVD library.
SceneAdaptive MPEG Noise Reduction
This ne wnoise reduction system detects the amount of change
in the input signal from one scene to the next, and calculates
the amount of noise to remove accordingly. It effectively blocks
regular noise and minimizes mosquito noise.
10Bit F ull Digital Proces sing
This enabl es the PTAX100U to display 1,070,000,000 colors
(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 PTAX100U t oconvert the
signals and attain higher image quality than was possible with
c onv entional models.
Adv anc ed t echnol ogies in an el egant f orm.
Styling that harmonizes with any int erior dec or .
Color before
adjustmentAdjusted color
C
ursor
Recommended for dark roomsCinema 1 A calm, gentle ima ge setting for wa tching movies. Super vised
by Da vid Bernstein, a leading Hollywood colorist.
Cinema 2
An ima ge setting emphasizing deep, rich color reproduction.
Suitable for older film c lassics.
Na
tural An ima ge setting designed to faithfully reproduce the colors
of the ima ge source.
Video
Suitable for video sources, such as music video c l ips and
concerts.
Recommended for bright roomsNormalA general ima ge setting suitable for a variety of ima ge
sources, such as sports programs and video games.
Dynamic
An ima ge setting designed for use in a brightly lit room.
Vivid Cinema
An ima ge setting designed for wa tching movies in a brightly
lit room. Conventional 
“chicken wire”
effectPT AX100U:
Smooth, thea ter 
like ima ges
Without Dynamic
Sharpness ControlPTAX100U
MPEG Noise Reduction OffPTAX100U                   
						

							
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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 PTAX100U.
Attractiv estyling, fl exible installation
IMAGE SIZE / PROJECTION DISTANCE      L(L W/L T)
L ScreenS
SH  SWL(L W/L T)
L(L W/L T) ScreenSH
SHScreenSW
102.5mm
(41/32˝)  SW SH
63%
of SH63%
of SH
25% ofSW 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
7.4 m
9.3 m
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