LAS VEGAS ––Yamaha Electronics Corporation, the leader in digital video reproduction, debuts its fourth generation DLP TM Digital Cinema Projector, the DPX-1200, to complement its line of high-end Audio Video equipment.
The DPX-1200 adds even more depth to Yamaha's line of high-performance DLP and LCD projectors. Yamaha's digital cinema projectors display a film-like picture, with deeper natural black and silent operation. Home theater enthusiasts can enjoy m ovies and sports in superb digital quality on a screen that's significantly larger than most rear projection televisions, for an enhanced home theater experience.
Yamaha's latest projector features the newest DLP DMD TM light engine, the 720P DarkChip3 TM , which delivers 25 percent higher contrast than previous DLP engines. The new chip substantially improves natural blacks and gradations in the DPX-1200's picture quality, richly detailing every level of brightness. The projector's design was based on Yamaha's “Natural Black” concept, specifically engineered with superior parts and technology to achieve deeper levels of black than most conventional projectors are capable of producing.
The DPX-1200 uses a high-resolution lens (f= 2.7-5.0) that maintains sensitivity to the very edge of the lens. Four anomalous dispersion glass components have cut the chromatic aberration in half while maintaining a short focal point and high-magnification zoom.
For a true 16x9 home theater experience, the DXP-1200 has a 1.6x motorized zoom lens capable of accommodating a lens-to-screen distance of 9 ft. 10 in. to 15 ft. 9 in. on a 100” diagonal 16x9 screen, for extreme flexibility in projector placement. The projector also features a motorized vertical lens shift that is ±50 percent of projection height, and digital keystone correction for a perfectly rectangular picture even if users need to mount the projector above or below the screen center. The Natural C olor Adjustment system fine tunes the picture by adjusting the color temperature in increments of 500k ranging between 5,000k and 10,000k, and up to 12 different combinations of parameter settings can be stored with easy future recall. The DPX-1200 offers brightness levels of up to 800 lumens, and contrast ratios of up to 5000:1. In addition to the normal menu, a one-line graphical menu configuration can keep projector operation adjustments simple.
The DPX-1200's high-speed, seven-segment color wheel adds a Neutral Density (ND) filter on the green segment to improve color reproduction, detail in darker scenes and to provide a sharper, more accurate picture.
In addition, Faroudja's TrueLife™ Enhancement technology makes detailed transitions such as skin texture or hair more lifelike, for excellent picture quality with clean, sharp edges. It also enhances large edges to create greater depth of perception without introducing visual artifacts or distortion.
A full suite of video inputs gives the DPX-1200 the flexibility to handle a wide variety of analog and digital signals, including an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) input that provides for an uncompressed digital video signal from a capable source component directly to the projector. Other connections include component video with BNC terminals and RGB, composite and S-video inputs. In addition, the DPX-1200 features a PC standard RS-232 serial port so users can control the projector via a computer or system controller. For additional system integration , a 200mA +12V trigger can activate a motorized screen when the projector is powered on or off.
Other features include Smart Zoom for projecting 4:3 sports broadcasts onto a full 16:9 screen; Cinema Zoom, which tracks a cinescope size black bar outside the 16:9 screen; six memories for each input; Operation Status Lock; Lamp Power Selector; Selectable Video Scan; Manual Display Aspect Selection; Still Function; Message Display; and Automatic Aspect Conversion.
The DPX-1200, priced at $12,495, will be available in February 2005 and can be seen during the CES 2005 show at Yamaha's booth (# 9844 ) in the center hall, Las Vegas Convention Center , beginning January 6.