Panasonic PT-AR100 Home Cinema Projector

The PT-AR100 lets friends and family enjoy Full-HD large-screen entertainment—from movies and sports to video games. Panasonic's advanced technologies bring crisp images even in daytime brightness, and improve color reproduction accuracy in movies, to deliver images with a refined Hollywood tuning technology. Whether it is used for a house party filled with friends or for family movie night, the PT-AR100 will keep you and your guests engaged in the story and action through its stunning image quality.

2,800-lm Brightness from Newly Developed 280-W Red-Rich Lamp
The PT-AR100 projector produces bright, sharp images by employing a new, high-power 280-W Red- Rich Lamp and optical unit that combine to generate 2,800 lm of brightness for comfortable viewing in various lighting conditions.

Light Harmonizer 3 Produces Quality Pictures in Various Lightings
Together with 2,800 lm of brightness, Panasonic's Light Harmonizer 3 technology assists the versatile use of the projector by automatically adjusting the picture quality of the image to match the living room or theater room conditions. This is made possible by utilizing built-in ambient light and color sensors that adjust the white balance, gamma curve, and sharpness settings to maintain bright, crisp pictures that match the viewing environment.

Picture Modes for Different Occasions
The PT-AR100 features seven picture modes for various viewing situations, including modes that are ideal for sports, games and movies: Normal, Dynamic, Game, Sports, Rec. 709, Cinema 1 and Vivid Cinema.

• Cinema 1 Mode Offers Hollywood Picture Quality
Movies can be enjoyed in Cinema 1 mode that has been tuned carefully to faithfully express the director's artistic intent. Panasonic has continued to work side by side with Hollywood experts to deliver this ideal image reproduction for viewing movies.
• Game Mode for Stress-Free Playing
This mode improves signal processing for better response, allowing you to play games with minimal stress. It also reveals gradation in saturated areas to show details that are otherwise lost in very dark areas.
• Sports Mode with Motion Effect for Sharp Action Scenes
In Sports mode, together with the Motion Effect feature, the PT-AR100 detects and extenuates detail on moving objects, resulting in intensified action with clearer, more highlighted players.

Dynamic Iris Pro Delivers High 50,000:1 Contrast Ratio for Deep Blacks
This intelligent iris system works by analyzing the brightness level of each image using a histogram, then adjusting the lamp power, iris and gamma curve*1 accordingly to create the ideal image. The adjustments are made virtually frame by frame. This achieves an astounding contrast ratio of 50,000:1, providing a wide dynamic range with swift smoothness for added beauty in both dark and bright scenes.

Pure Color Filter Pro for Rich, Vibrant Colors
The optical filter optimizes the light spectrum from the UHM projector lamp, helping to produce deeper blacks while improving purity levels in the three primary colors(red, green and blue). This advanced filter system improves color purity to cover a range that extends from the HDTV standard (Rec. 709 mode)*2 to the color gamut used in digital cinema.*3 This gives images the deep, rich coloring that distinguishes movie images.

Detail Clarity Processor 3 Gives Natural Clarity to Even the Finest Details
This digital image processing circuit brings greater clarity and sharpness to details, by reproducing fine nuances that were lost due to image compression. After a two dimensional analysis of the video signal’s frequency in each scene, the new circuit optimizes the sharpness of each image portion based on the extracted information. The resulting images have a more natural, lifelike expression than those of previous image-processing methods. The detection of super-high-frequency image components also enables more faithful reproduction of highly detailed information, such as the film grain in movies. The effect can be adjusted in eight steps from 0 to +7.

Motion Effect Adds Smoothness and Sharpness to Fast-Moving Scenes
This digital image processing circuit brings greater clarity and sharpness to details, even in fast-moving scenes. The resulting images have a more natural, lifelike expression.

Waveform Monitor for Precise Calibration
When the output level of the source device fluctuates due to the performance of the device or its cable connections, the original black and white levels of the image content cannot be reproduced. With the PT-AR100, you can view the waveforms on the screen and adjust the settings either automatically of manually as you prefer.

Split Adjust Mode for Easy Picture Adjustment
You can freeze any scene you wish, and then make adjustments while easily comparing the original image and the adjusted image side-by-side.

Advanced Gamma Adjustment Function
The gamma curve can be flexibly controlled, allowing precise calibration according to the signal source and environment. Brightness (Y), R, G and B can each be adjusted at any of nine points. Adjustment point positions can be shifted both horizontally and vertically to bring out the desired gradation level.

Cinema Color Management Premium Enables Flexible Color Control
This color correction system enables free color control in two different modes. The Point Color Correction mode lets you pick a point in the image and adjust that color without affecting the neighboring colors. The Six Color Correction mode enables ndependent adjustment of red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow.

Other Features

• 16-bit (full 12-bit) gamma correction for natural gradation.
• Scene-adaptive MPEG noise reduction effectively blocks regular noise and minimizes mosquito noise.
• Scene-adaptive resizing LSI improves quality when resizing 480p images or those from other sources with resolution lower than the PT-AR100’s native resolution.
• 24p compatible.
• Progressive cinema scan (3/2 pulldown) and HD IP.
• Up to sixteen sets of PICTURE adjustment settings can be stored in memory with custom names that make them easy to remember.
• User equalizing function lets you adjust the high, mid and low gamma levels.
• Screen Area Memory.
• User-friendly ergonomic remote control.
• Built-in test pattern.
• On-screen input guidance.
• Auto input search.
• Quiet operation: 29 dB (lamp power: Eco).
• Normal/Eco lamp power selection.

Specifications

*1 The projector uses a type of liquid crystal panel that typically consists of millions of pixels. This panel is built with very high-precision technology to provide the finest possible image. Occasionally, a few pixels may remain turned on (bright) or turned off (dark). Please note that this is an intrinsic characteristic of the manufacturing technology that affects all products using LCD technology.
*2 The projector uses a high-voltage mercury lamp that contains high internal pressure. This lamp may break, emitting a large sound, or fail to illuminate, due to impact or extended use. The length of time that it takes for the lamp to break or fail to illuminate varies greatly depending on individual lamp characteristics and usage conditions.
*3 Measurement, measuring conditions, and method of notation all comply with ISO 21118 international standards.
*4 In dynamic mode, with dynamic iris on.
*5 In cinema 1 mode, with dynamic iris on.
*6 Shift range is limited during simultaneous horizontal and vertical shifting.
*7 Effective in Rec. 709 picture mode.
*8 CEC is an abbreviation for Consumer Electronics Control. Operation may not be possible with some connected equipment or settings.
*9 Lens and legs not included.
*10 Average value. May differ depending on models.
*11 Operation range differs depending on environments. 

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