SANYO develops new revolutionary PLC-XL50 projector witht he world's shortest distance

SANYO has developed a new large diameter aspheric lens, a high-precision aspheric mirror, and a new optical engine, enabling an 80-inch projection from a distance of only 8 cm. Large projections from a short distance are now possible in even the tightest meeting rooms.

The PLC-XL50 is the world's first front projector allowing versatile use, including floor space projection, tabletop projection, and wall-mounted projection. This is the follow-up of the LP-XL40 projector, launched last year, fitted with an ultra-short focus lens capable of projecting images of 80 inches from a distance of 103 cm.

Tetsuji Okui, Managing Director at SANYO Gulf FZE commented:

"SANYO is committed to providing various new solutions by openly employing its propriety technologies in creative ways, based on its Brand Vision 'Think GAIA'. We will continue delivering the technologies that are developed on the standards of environmental stewardship and engineered for the utmost benefit of the generation to come."

Through this creativity and new projector technology, the world's first projector capable of projecting images easily onto meeting room tabletops or on the floor, increases and expands the usability of projection technology. SANYO, through expanding its line-up of ultra-short focus projectors, has provided new solutions to the educational, digital signage (electronic advertising), and office markets.

Main Features

- World's shortest projection distance of 8 cm allows 80 inch projection
- Optical engine for vertical or horizontal projection
- World's first projector allowing versatile use, including among others, floor space projection, tabletop projection, and wall-mounted projection

Through the PLC-XL50's proprietary optical and cooling (mechanism) technology, the projector can project vertically or horizontally. The new optical engine developed for this projector was created with a high-precision aspheric mirror enabling large magnification from the lens's optical projection which has been wide-angle reflected and combined with a distortion correction mechanism lens. Through this engineering, even from an ultra-short distance, the image is large and not distorted, and because of the mirror the projection light direction has been changed and advanced, improving options for installation.

By making use of the main features of the PLC-XL50's extremely wide angle and the short distance of projection needed, adding to traditional uses of projectors, many new and various types of applications and locations become available.

The SANYO PLC-XL50 projector is available in the UAE markets. SANYO's retail outlets in the UAE can be found at Al-Futtaim Electronics, Plug-Ins Electronics, Jacky's Electronics, CompuMe and Sharaf DG across the United Arab Emirates.