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Performance Features Ease Of Use Value	The Panasonic AX100U is the closest thing to a truly universal home theater projector we have yet seen. Its 2.0x zoom range and lens shift capabilities make it easy to place almost anywhere in the room you might want it. And its exceptional lumen output range will allow you to use it in a wide variety of room sizes and ambient light conditions. We rarely rate any projector a full 5 stars across the board, but the simple fact is that we find nothing to complain about with the AX100U. Panasonic has combined outstanding image quality with unparalleled ease of use and versatility in a way that we've not seen before. And as of this writing it is all available for street prices under $2,000US. Accordingly, we are happy to give the PT-AX100U our strongest recommendation.
	What is really significant about the improvement in sharpness, is that at the same time Panasonic dramatically improved their Smooth Screen" technology, that makes pixels less visible. They have gone so far, with the technology, that the PT-AX100U has noticeably less visible pixels than even the DLP projectors which normally are better than LCD projectors in this regard! This is a big deal, because you can now sit significantly closer than with any other LCD projector, and also closer than any DLP projector, and not be bothered with seeing pixel structures, or the Screen Door Effect.
	Bruce Wilis, from The Fifth Element, also from standard DVD from an AX100 Taken by www.ProjectorReviews.com

A Big 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 favorite guitarist? Imagine the thrill of sitting in a front row seat, seeing them perform live. That’s the kind of thrill you get with Panasonic’s PT-AX100E home cinema projector. The PT-AX100E lets you see the biggest stars in larger-than-life size, right in your living room, anytime you want. Fill a big screen (up to 200 inc hes diagonal) with Panasonic’s remarkably clear, vivid, high-definition images, and you’ll discover things you’d never see on a small screen. Until you meet your favorite stars in real life, Panasonic PT-AX100E will get you closer to them than you’ve ever imagined.

Outstanding 2,000-lumen brightness and intelligent Light Harmonizer
Images are crisp, bright and easy to see—even in a well-lit room.

You want to watch a big match or concert DVD on a large screen, but y ou don’t want to close the drapes or turn off the lights. Then the Panasonic PT-AX100E is right for you. With 2,000 lumens of brightness—brightest in its class*1—plus Panasonic’s Light Harmonizer, the PT-AX100E produces bright, beautiful, easy-to-see images even in a well-lit room.

2,000-Lumen Brightness—Brightest in its Class*1
Panasonic specially developed an extremely powerful new lamp for the PT-AX100E. Combined with the high-performance optical system, it delivers 2,000-lumen brightness, brightest in its class.

Intelligent Light Harmonizer
With the PT-AX100E, 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 Harmonizer 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.

Pure Color Filter produces deep, rich blacks and bright, vivid colors
Hollywood Tuning—so you see movies with the color nuances the director intended.

The PT-AX100E is a high-specifications model developed especially for home theater use. It incorporates all of Panasonic’s highly acclaimed home cinema projector technologies. No compromises 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 favorite football 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” picture quality. The lamp is adjusted to produce a level of light that maximizes the performance of the LCD panels, which expands the color range and produces truer blacks. You will see the improvement in movies especially—deeper, richer blacks, more vibrant color, and a more dynamic overall viewing experience. Pure Color Filter produces deep, rich blacks and bright, vivid colors Hollywood Tuning—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.

Dynamic Iris and Dynamic Gamma
The Dynamic Iris helps provide the deeper, richer blacks needed for true image reproduction. This technology adjusts the lamp power, iris and gamma curve according to data obtained from frame-by-frame histogram analysis of the image brightness level. The adjustments are made 60 times per second. The wide iris range, combined with histogram analysis that detects as many as 3,000,000,000 brightness and darkness levels, provides brighter bright scenes and deeper, richer blacks. The Dynamic Gamma boosts the brightness level of image details that would otherwise be lost in dark areas. You see the kind of true, deep blacks you’ve seen before only at the cinema.

Smooth Screen Technology
Smooth Screen technology, developed exclusively by Panasonic, effectiv ely reduces the “chicken wire effect”—the black lines between pixels that mar picture quality. The highdefinition picture of the PT-AX100E is remarkably smooth and film-like, while remaining amazingly sharp and detailed.

Dynamic Sharpness Control
Conventional projectors emphasize sharpness without regard for brightness differences. This can cause a halo or ring effect around object edges, reducing their three-dimensionality.

Dynamic Sharpness Control
sharpens only the pixels in the image areas where there is a small change in brightness level. This greatly reduces noise amplification and delivers clear, natural-looking images.

Cinema Color Management (CCM)
CCM makes it possible to reproduce images that closely match the colorist’s intent ion. Before CCM was developed, correcting one color affected certain others. This proven technology now allows individual correction of approximately 1,070,000,000 colors, and it also controls both contrast and bright ness. With CCM, color correction more closely approximates the process used for motion pictures.

Seven Picture Modes
They let you select the picture characteristics that best match the source material at the touch of a button.

User Equalizing Function The PT-AX100E 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 setting combinations. Also, the control screens are more legible and easier to use than in previous models. This makes customizing the picture easier and gives you better results. Up to three sets of adjustment settings can be stored in memory.
Scene-Adaptive Resizing LSI
A new image processing engine improves quality when resizing 480P images or those from other sources with resolution lower than the PT-AX100E’s native resolution. This lets you enjoy beautiful images from your existing video tape and DVD library.

Scene-Adaptive MPEG Noise Reduction
This new noise 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.

10-Bit Full Digital Processing
This enables the PT-AX100E to display 1,070,000,000 colors (1,024 steps of gradation) from video sources. Also, gamma correction is applied separately to the red, green, and blue signals, allowing for ultra-fine image quality adjustment with a high precision of 0.01%.

Progressive Cinema Scan (3/2 Pulldown) and HD IP
This function detects when the input signal is derived from filmed material. HD IP then allows the PT-AX100E to convert the signals and attain higher image quality than was possible with conventional models.

Stylish Appearance The PT-AX100E’s simple, elegant design and attractive pearl white body make a good fit with virtually any interior décor. You get highquality home cinema with a touch of style. 2x Optical Zoom Lens The 2x optical zoom lens provides a wide throw range that gives you outstanding setup flexibility. You can project a 120-inch picture with the PT-AX100E as close as 12.1 feet to the screen or as far as 24.3 feet away. Position it on a table in front of you, suspend it from the ceiling, place it on a bookshelf behind you. With the PT-AX100E, you get the same superb largescreen viewing in rooms large or small.

Vertical and Horizontal Lens Shift Adjust the positioning of the picture vertically and horizontally by simply operating a joystick. Unlike projectors with electronic correction, in the PT-AX100E the lens itself moves, so there is no loss of image quality. This advanced function adds to the PT-AX100’s flexibility, making it an ideal fit in your home. Quiet Operation and Front Exhaust To minimize distractions, a quiet fan cuts noise to a mere whisper, while light leakage is reduced by using twin blades. Because the exhaust fan is at the front of the projector, the PT-AX100E is suitable for even narrow locations.

Simple, Convenient Remote Control
The newly redesigned remote control has fewer buttons and a more userfriendly layout. The picture mode select buttons have been divided into “Theater Room” and “Living Room” for easier use, and the functions you use most are now even simpler to operate.

On-Screen Input Guidance
A graphic display on the screen shows which terminals have been selected. If a terminal with no input signal has been selected, the graphic indicator blinks to inform you.

Other Features
• OSD color/position selectable
• Blue/black screen function
• Auto input search
• HDMI signal level selectable
• Off-timer
• Normal/economy lamp
power selection
• Built-in test pattern