Toshiba Showcases Its First-Ever High Performance DLP Home Theatre Projector At COMDEX 2001

14-Nov-01

Toshiba, a leader in advanced digital display and home theatre technology, is now shipping its first DLP? (Digital Light Processing?) home theatre projector, a high-end video display device engineered to deliver extraordinary big-screen image quality. Measuring just 10.3 (W) x 11 (D) x 3.5 (H) inches, with a weight of less than 6 pounds, the ultra-compact MT5 Projector incorporates a host of leading-edge technologies for home theatre projector performance, along with installation flexibility and ease of operation. Sam Malik, Director of Sales and Marketing, Multimedia Products Group, pointed out, ""Toshiba is committed to providing consumers with the broadest range of choice in high performance video display devices. With the introduction of our first full-featured DLP projector, our customers can now choose from both of today's most advanced projection technologies, DLP and LCD, depending on their preferences and needs.""Toshiba's MT5 projector is ideal for use in a wide variety of home theatre, commercial and portable projection applications. The MT5 utilizes Texas Instruments' Digital Light Processing technology, along with Toshiba?s premium optics and a quad-speed, six-segment color wheel in a sealed enclosure to deliver clear, sharp image quality, with 1000 ANSI lumens brightness and a 600:1 contrast ratio that enables its use even in brightly lit rooms.Key to the image-enhancing benefits of DLP is a specially-designed optical semiconductor chip that utilizes an array of over one million microscopic mirrors to create a high resolution, full-color image with a minimum of video artifacts. And because DLP is an all-digital display technology, a signal from a digital video source retains its digital purity through the entire video chain, without conversion to analog at the projector, making the MT5 ideal for use with all-digital home entertainment source components such as DVD-Video players, DV camcorders and DTV set-top boxes. Complementing this advanced technology, the MT5 includes sophisticated video processing circuitry, including high-end de-interlacing, per-pixel motion compensation, 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown film-mode detection, and cross-color suppression.The Toshiba MT5 offers a host of additional operational and convenience features for maximum home theatre versatility and image quality. Its Dual Mode display provides optimized image quality for both 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 aspect ratio images, and supports standard and anamorphic DVD, HDTV, NTSC, PAL and SECAM sources. It features a selection of preset Image Control modes for best reproduction of film, video and PC-based content, as well as provision for manual picture adjustment. Other refinements include Digital Keystone Correction that enables the projector to be located above or below the screen with no image distortion, an easy to use icon-based on-screen menu, and a full-function remote control.The Toshiba MT5 projector will be available in November 2001 for a suggested retail price of $4,995.99.For more information about Toshiba America Consumer Products, visit www.toshiba.com/tacp.

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