Panasonic PT-AE7000/AT5000 Full HD 3D Home Cinema Projector

Hollywood continues to produce and release 3D movies that give us an entirely new level of dynamic realism. The PT-AE7000 Full HD 3D Home Cinema Projector was developed according to the Panasonic philosophy of providing images that mirror the director's artistic vision and intent—right in your own home. The PT-AE7000 has also been redesigned from the ground up to achieve higher basic 2D performance, and packed with unique 3D features to deliver the level of quality demanded by Hollywood professionals. The key 3D projection technologies were developed in collaboration with Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory (PHL) engineers, who have taken key roles in establishing the industry standards for 3D. This allows the PT-AE7000 to deliver both stunning 2D images and a comfortable and immersive 3D viewing experience at home.

Stunning Picture Quality with Excellent Dynamic Range

New Red-Rich Lamp

The new 200-W Red-Rich Lamp increases the luminous efficiency of the projector to achieve brighter images with excellent color purity. Able to produce a stunning brightness of 2,000 lm, the PT-AE7000 unleashes the beauty of 2D/3D full-HD expression for viewing on various screen sizes.

Full-HD Optimized Optical System
To assure maximum clarity and sharpness in full-HD images, this advanced optical system employs a full-HD-optimized lens unit comprising of 16 lens elements in 12 groups, including two large-diameter aspherical lenses and two high-performance ED (extra-low dispersion) lenses. Each lens is carefully aligned to assure a uniform focusing balance from the center to the edges of the screen. As a result, the PT-AE7000 produces stunningly clear and beautiful images.

New up to 480-Hz Compatible LCD Panels
The PT-AE7000’s Full-HD LCD panels provide more brightness with higher aperture ratio. The panels are also designed for 480Hz processing capability for brighter, 3D image. These high-precision panels usem vertically aligned liquid crystal molecules with inorganic alignment layers. When no voltage is applied, the molecules are aligned perpendicular to the glass substrate, so there is minimal light leakage, providing higher contrast.

Pure Contrast Plates Deliver High 300,000:1 Contrast Ratio
The Pure Contrast Plates in the PT-AE7000 use a high-precision crystalline material that is carefully matched to the characteristics of the LCD panels to effectively correct the passage of light exiting the panels. This enables the projector to block unwanted light leakage and successfully increases the dynamic range. It works together with the Pure Color Filter Pro and Dynamic Iris Pro to achieve an astounding contrast ratio of 300,000:1.

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)*1 to the color gamut used in digital cinema*2. This gives images the deep, rich coloring that distinguishes movie images.

Dynamic Iris Pro Adds Beauty to Both Dark and Bright Scenes
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*3 accordingly to create the ideal image. The adjustments are made virtually frame by frame. This helps the projector achieve a wide dynamic range with swift smoothness for added beauty in both dark and bright scenes.

Smooth Screen Technology
Creates Film-Like Texture While many LCD projectors suffer from a “chicken wire” effect, Panasonic’s pursuit of the highest possible image quality has successfully overcome this device imitation through the incorporation of Smooth Screen technology. This uses the double refraction property of crystals to arrange pixels on a screen with no gaps between them.

Seven Picture Modes
Seven different picture modes (normal, dynamic, Rec. 709, D-cinema, cinema 1, cinema 2 and game mode for reduced frame delay) automatically detect 2D, 3D signal for optimized picture quality.

Comfortable 3D Viewing Experience

LCD Panels Driven at 480Hz and Original Overdrive Technology for Clear 3D Image
The PT-AE7000 features 480Hz-driven LCD panels, which lengthen the time that the shutter is open about 1.5 times the duration of a 240-Hz drive system. Together with Panasonic’s original high-precision overdrive technology, this improves the brightness of the images viewed through 3D Eyewear, while at the same time minimizing crosstalk, or double image seen as a result of the left image entering the right eye and vice versa.

Newly Developed Dual Core Processing Engine
High-quality 2D image processing, including Frame Creation and Detail Clarity Processor, can now be enjoyed in 3D as well, with the incorporation of the newly developed dual core processing engine. Frame Creation 2 for Motion Blur Reduction in 3D/2D Viewing A double-speed frame interpolation display for 2D viewing, and also in 3D viewing, greatly improves the clarity of motion images, reproducin sharp and clear images for fast moving scenes in sports and action movies. For 24p signal input, four frames are calculated and interpolate for each existing frame, to enable 5x speed (120-Hz) display.

Detail Clarity Processor 3 Gives Natural Clarity to Even the Finest Details
This digital image processing circuit brings greater clarity and sharpness to details embedded in the image. After analyzing the video signal frequency in each scene, the circuit optimizes the sharpness of each part of the image based on the extracted information. The resulting images, 3D or 2D, have more natural, lifelike expression than those of previous image-processing methods.

3D Viewing Monitor for Adjustment of Depth-of-Field
The projection size for viewing 3D images can be selected from among 9 different sizes, ranging from 40 inches to 200 inches diagonally.*4 The amount of parallax is optimized according to the projection size, so comfortable, easyto- view 3D images can be enjoyed at any size. Furthermore, the 3D Viewing Monitor makes sure the field of depth is within the comfortable zone by a graphical representation and make adjustments accordingly.

3D Picture Balance with Waveform Monitor
The projector is able to show the right and left image side by side to check if the two sides have the same colors. The difference may occur due to poor content quality. With the Waveform Monitor displayed, you can adjust the contrast, brightness, color and tint as desired, and up to three adjustment settings can be stored in memory for instant recall.

2D-3D Conversion
2D to 3D image conversion is possible, with five 3D effect modes to select from.

Precisely Tuned 3D Projection with Optional Panasonic VIERA 3D Eyewear
The PT-AE7000 uses frame sequential technology for 3D image projection. When viewing 3D content, signals from the PT-AE7000’s built-in infrared transmitter precisely control the left and right shutters of the active 3D eyewear, which can be shared with VIERA 3D TVs.

Built-in 3D Infrared Transmitter
The PT-AE7000 comes equipped with a builtin transmitter with maximum transmission distance of six meters (about 20 feet).*5 For more range up to ten meters (about 33 feet), an optional infrared transmitter, ET-TRM110 is available for greater installation flexibility.

Other Features

- 16-bit (full 12-bit) gamma correction for natural gradations.
- 3D noise reduction for high-precision noise detection and reduction.
- 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-AE7000’s native resolution.
- 24p compatible.
- Progressive cinema scan (3/2 pulldown) and HD IP.
- Auto 3D input format select for frame packing, side by side, and top and bottom. Manual selection is also possible.
- Selectable frame response.
- Independent horizontal/vertical sharpness adjustment.
- Featuring a wide range of aspect modes, including ones for anamorphic lenses. (JUST/4:3/16:9/S16:9/14:9/ZOOM1/ZOOM2/ H-FIT/V-FIT) NOTE: The selectable modes vary depending on the input signal.
- Up to sixteen sets of PICTURE adjustment settings can be stored in memory with custom names that make them easy to remember (PICTURE MEMORY).
- Masking function to match the desired projection area to the screen.