The PT-AE700 is the most impressive home cinema projector ever from Panasonic. Compact enough to sit on a bookshelf, it is packed with advanced features designed to bring you a whole new level of home theater enjoyment.
The PT-AE700 makes it possible to enjoy a home cinema projector in new ways. You can use it in a larger room and with a bigger screen than was practical with earlier LCD projector models. And its compact and lightweight design gives you plenty of flexibility. Joystick controlled vertical and horizontal lens shift adds further convenience. Unlike digital keystone correction, which can add distortion to the on-screen image, the new system is purely optical. It allows you to compensate for distortion when the projector is situated at an angle to the screen while maintaining superb clarity and picture fidelity. A newly developed 2x optical zoom lens allows you to adjust the image size to match the setup layout and screen dimensions. With its combination of convenient features and unmatched performance, the PTAE700 brings the home cinema projector to a new level, and offers a substantially larger screen size than either a CRT, LCD or plasma display
Cinema Colour Management Technology (with 10 bit digital processing and gamma correction)
The innovative colour correction system incorporates Cinema Colour Management (CCM) technology, enabling free control of colours. Until the development of CCM, it has been difficult to reflect the colourist’s intentions, because correcting one colour affected certain others. With CCM technology, the Panasonic PTAE700 gives individual correction of approximately 1,070,000,000 colours (10 bit) without affecting other colours. Accurate reproduction of subtle variations in brightness or hue is realized using 10-bit full digital processing and 10-bit gamma correction, which quadruple the number of displayable colours to over 1 billion (with 1,024 gradations). Colour control usually includes control of contrast, but CCM technology goes even further and controls brightness too. CCM is a true breakthrough and moves colour correction closer to the process used for motion pictures.
Dynamic Iris and Light-interlocked Dynamic Gamma deliver amazingly high contrast of 2000:1
With a new Dynamic Iris optical system incorporating AI technology the ae700 can control the light volume and gamma curve in real time, allowing Gamma correction in every single scene. In conjunction with lamp control, the world’s first Iris with scene-tracking capability delivers a dynamic contrast of 2,000:1, so the picture is sharp and clear even in a well-lit room. Superb brightness is achieved at the same time, broadening the dynamic range. The dynamic gamma is interlocked with the light source, so scene changes are smooth and natural, and contribute to sufficient brightness in dark scenes. The AI can detect as many as 3,000,000,000 combinations of scenes by utilizing histogram analysis. An amazing response speed is achieved by interlocking it with the light source rather than the lens
Smooth Screen Technology
Smooth Screen technology effectively reduces the “screen door effect”—the black lines between pixels that mar the images of conventional LCD home cinema projectors. The high-definition picture of the PT AE700 is remarkably smooth and film-like, and at the same time amazingly sharp and detailed.
New Dynamic Sharpness Control
The new Dynamic Sharpness Control circuit adjusts the video signal waveforms based on the difference in brightness of adjacent pixels for a sharp, clear picture that is relatively unaffected by signal noise.
Vertical and horizontal lens shift
Vertical and horizontal lens shift enables screen position adjustment without moving the projector. A simple joystick operation moves the lens within the projector housing allowing the projector to be positioned anywhere. Suspended from the ceiling or placed on a shelf or table, there will be no deterioration of image because the lens is physically repositioned
Wide, high-definition LCD panel for sharp, detailed images
A wide 1280 x 720 pixels high-definition LCD panel generates the sharp images of the PT-AE700. Its three-layer construction realizes 2.76 million pixels, giving a beautifully detailed picture of exceptional fidelity— especially from superior video sources such as high-definition digital satellite/terrestrial broadcasts.