Panasonic offers first compact high-brightness LCD projector equipped with Digital Link

Panasonic has announced the new Digital Link compatible projector PT-VW431D, a new projector concept that ensures easy and simple high-quality digital transmission with a single CAT 5E/6 LAN cable based on HDBaseT technology, and a new version of its Easy Wireless Stick, el ET-UW100, that facilitates wireless projection. The Japanese multinational also intends to incorporate the portrait function into the PT-DZ21K family of projectors. 20.000 lumens.

Panasonic Systems Communications Company Europe has launched its new Digital Link compatible projector, the PT-VW431D, with a luminosity of 4.300 lumens and WXGA resolution in a compact body. The PT-VW431D has been designed to provide a completely new way of long distance digital connection with simple wiring.. Educational centers and companies that require several long cables for their projectors will be able to benefit from the efficiency and cable savings of Digital Link.

The PT-VW431D features Panasonic's Digital Link, based on Valens HDBaseT technology, allowing you to have an easy and simple digital connection of HDMI and other uncompressed HD audio and video control commands through a single Cat5e/6 LAN cable. These signals can be transmitted over a radius of up to 100 metros. If used together with the new ET-YFB100 switcher or other switches with HDBaseT chipset, Projector installation is easier than ever, since it does not need any external receiver. Panasonic has partnered with major HDBaseT solutions manufacturers, like Crestron, Extron y AMX, to ensure interoperability of the PT-VW431D with Creston DigitalMedia 8G+ compatible switchers, Extron XTP systems and Enova Digital Media DVX and DGX switchwers.

Hartmut Kule, PSCEU Projector Marketing Director, has manifested: “We are always looking for ways to improve the user experience with our projectors. With the market's rapid adoption of HDBaseT embedded products within the audio and video markets (OF), We have seen the need to support the technology of our projectors, aiming to provide solutions for common installation challenges. “With the first launch of a Digital Link compatible projector we want to lead the industry into a new era of simple and reliable connectivity”.

For your part, Dror Jerushalmi, CEO and co-founder of Valens Semiconductor, has stated: “The adoption of HDBaseT technology by market leaders, like Panasonic, confirms and evaluates the status of HDBaseT technology as the de facto standard in the digital connectivity market. “The adoption in devices in the professional AV sector represents an important step in the migration of HDBaseT to the consumer electronics market.”.

Great luminosity

The PT-VW431D offers high brightness of 4.300 lumens and a contrast ratio of 3.500:1. This compact projector is equipped with a micro-cut pleated filter that maximizes the replacement cycle of more than 4.000 hours, helping to reduce maintenance time and costs. Besides, The PT-VW431D ensures image quality in very clear rooms thanks to Panasonic's Daylight View Basic technology. The projector's built-in sensor detects and measures the amount of ambient light, and the Daylight View function adjusts the image according to lighting conditions..

The PT-VW431D offers installation flexibility for both portable and ceiling mounting. 1.6x manual zoom lenses enable large format projection from 2.5m to 4.1m. Besides, The PT-VW431D features a vertical lens shift function, which vertically moves the image position more than one 48% without loss of quality.

Portrait function for PT-DZ21K projectors

Panasonic has also developed the portrait function for its PT-DZ21K projectors, which have a luminosity of 20.000 lumens. The portrait function will allow the DZ21K to be rotated horizontally to project vertical images. Also includes features such as a four-lamp system and installation flexibility with a variety of optional lenses, geometric fit function and network functions. Portrait mode will expand the use of the DZ21K in different applications.

Wireless projection with the ET-UW100

The Japanese firm has also launched a new version of its Easy Wireless Stick, ET-UW100, a USB device that makes wireless projection possible on Panasonic 'wireless ready' projectors and its professional screens. The ET-UW100 has been designed with speed and simplicity of use in mind., to allow a fast wireless connection from the computer to the projector or screen and without the need to download any software. Valid for both Windows and Mac OS users, The Easy Wireless Stick enables a secure computer-to-computer wireless connection to your projector..

Faced with the growing demand for wireless connectivity, ET-UW100 update now offers compatibility with Windows and Mac OS X and support for Multi Live function, allowing wireless projection of up to 16 computers on the same wireless projector or on the same professional display. The update also increases data transmission speed, that improves up to six times the speed compared to the previous version. And since the Easy Wireless Stick uses its own independent network, You can browse the Internet while projecting images over the wireless network.

Panasonic now allows wireless projection from a wide variety of devices, including those based on iOS and OS computers. Combinado con Panasonic Wireless Projector for iOS, that facilitates wireless projection from iOS devices, y Wireless Manager ME, that makes wireless projection from Windows and Mac OS computers more flexible, Panasonic's ET-UW100 will enable simpler and easier wireless projection with professional projectors and displays.