Just Over Five Pounds, the PLC-XW20 Provides Well-Rounded Package for Mobile Presenters

LAS VEGAS, June 13, 2001, INFOCOMM, Booth #17054 — SANYO Fisher Company's Presentation Technologies Division, whose parent company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD projectors, adds the PLC-XW20 to its line-up of micro-mobile LCD projectors. Weighing just over five pounds, the PLC-XW20 combines portability with unmatched performance and compatibility, providing mobile presenters an overall low total cost of ownership.

With a price tag of just $4,995 (MSRP), the 5.7-pound PLC-XW20 uses a powerful 150-watt UHP lamp to produce a striking 1100 ANSI lumens while supporting a native XGA 1024 x 768 resolution and 300:1 contrast ratio to project clear, detailed, high-quality images from 30 to 200 inches diagonally. Adding functionality to its feature set, the new unit also comes with component video inputs and a newly developed digital RGB matrix IC, making possible the connection of DVD players (Y/Cb/Cr) and HDTV source material (Y/Pb/Pr) through a single connection.

Furthermore, the new unit features SANYO's digital keystone correction feature, which compensates for angled projector placement, correcting trapezoidal images directly on the screen as well as a new whisper quiet fan that produces an amazingly low fan noise level of just 39 dB.

"SANYO's PLC-XW20 bundles 'big' projector features into a lightweight, compact and affordable package," said Mark Holt, senior sales manager, SANYO Presentation Technologies. "Mobile presenters everywhere will benefit from the ease-of-use, portability, presentation quality and features of the PLC-XW20."

The PLC-XW20 uses SANYO's new aspheric mirror optical system, resulting in crystal-clear, incredibly bright images not typically found in projectors of this size. In addition, Sanyo's proprietary Automatic Uniformity Correction Controller ensures a uniform projection, improving uneven color and brightness of images corner to corner.

Moreover, the new unit offers a one-button auto imaging feature, allowing seamless setup; an image pause function, enabling users to remove an image from the screen while retaining their place within a presentation; a wireless remote with mouse pad; HDTV compatibility, accepting the 1080i, 1035i, 720p, 575p, 575i, 480p and 480i resolution standards; and international compatibility, supporting six color systems including PAL, PAL-M, PAL-N, SECAM, NTSC and NTSC4.43.

The projector is backed by a three-year part and labor warranty as well as a 90-day warranty on the lamp and will be available in October 2001 through SANYO's national network of professional audiovisual dealers.