PLC-XF46N

The PLC-XF46N, offers outstanding improvements in both performance and reliability.  The projector uses three large 1.8 inch, 1024 by 768 pixel LCDs to produce startling amounts of light on the big screen -- up to 12,000 lumens -- with 4 UHP lamps, each producing only 300 watts of power.  If two of these relatively light weight (80.5 lbs.) tabletop projectors are stacked and aligned together -- with motorized zoom, focus and shift lenses -- they can produce a total of 24,000 lumens on screens up to 600 inches in diagonal size.  If the XF46N is operated in the two-lamp mode, a single projector can still produce 6000 lumens with an overall lamp life of more than 4000 hours (single lamp life of 2,000 hours in normal mode or 2500 hours in a lower power "Eco mode").  With four lamps, you'll never be left without a projected image -- the XF46N can automatically switch to a long-life, low power, "Failsafe" mode whenever a single lamp defect is detected.  Plus the use of low power, low cost UHP lamps results in overall running costs about half that of other systems in the same high brightness class.

The XF46N's outstanding brightness comes with a highly impressive image quality.  SANYO uses a colorful three panel LCD and optical block design in the XF46N which provides up to 1200 to 1 contrast ratio along with naturally smooth color and grey scale variations, all of which means that the XF46N can produce life-like, virtual reality images on any big screen.  Of course it takes more than outstanding optics to make excellent image quality -- it takes advanced image processing ICs too.  The XF46N has special circuits that provide Dynamic Auto Gamma Processing.  These circuits optimize the dynamic range of the luminance signals by adjusting the gamma setting and offset in real time, according to the projected image.  Put that together with SANYO's automatic circuits for Vertical and Horizontal Edge Enhancement and you get images with realistic depth and sharp detail even in areas where the image signal is shallow or would otherwise look washed out or harsh.