Panasonic’s DLP™projectors for large venues earned wide acclaim fort heir brightness, high image quality, and easy operation. Now they are joined by the newest members of Panasonic’s DLP™ projector family—the PT 8500, XGA that inherit the same superb functions and add new features that make it easy to project high-quality images on multiple screens. The new PTD8500 is fully equipped for either permanent or event applications, and are ideal for convention halls, sports arenas, control centres and post-production display for digital cinema.
The PT-D8500 features a DLP™ system equipped with three Digital Micromirror Device (DMD™) chips. This, Together with Panasonic’s original optical system and 1,200-W xenon lamp, achieves 7,000 ANSI lumens of brightness.
Contrast is as high as 450:1. The xenon lamp reproducesnatural colours and stunning brightness.
High-efficiency optical system
Panasonic’s unique optical system is highly efficient, using lamp light with minimal waste. Thanks to a highly condensing dual reflector system and a wide convergence angle, the PT D8500 offers a very bright light source housed in a compact package.
UFC for faithful moving pictures
Each projector is equipped with Panasonic’s Emmy Award-winning universal format converter (UFC), a high-precision digital filter that greatly improves the moving image smoothness. Projected images move smoothly and naturally, and viewers cannot perceive individual pixels.
Digital processing
The PTD8500 incorporates a host of Panasonic developed video-processing technologies designed to ensure superior reproduction of moving pictures from a variety of sources. The built-in digital detail enhancer checks and corrects the quality of 368,000 pixels in each image to improve sharpness and clarity. The digital cinema reality circuit provides progressive processing optimized for a 24-frame