Weight: 10.8 lbs. (4.9kg)
Warranty: 1 Year Parts and Labor
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Panasonic PT-AX200U Home Theater
Projector: Physical Tour
We'll begin facing the front of the Panasonic PT-AX200U. The
manual zoom lens is offset to the right side. It has a 2:1 zoom
ratio, providing tremendous, front to back placement flexibility. To fill a 100" 16:9 screen, the
front of the Panasonic PT-AX200U, can be as close to the screen as 10.2 feet, or as far back as
20.4 feet. This makes shelf mounting the PT-AX200U practical in almost any room. Focus and
zoom are effected by rotating their respective trim rings around the lens. Just to the right of
the lens is the joystick control for adjusting both vertical and horizontal lens shift. Twisting the
joystick will lock your setting in place. The range of the lens shift allows the projector to be
placed anywhere from below the bottom of the projector screen's surface, to above the top.
Primary exhaust vents are on the front left, and blow the air out diagonally, so that hot air
does not pass in front of the lens, where it could distort the projected image.
An infra-red sensor for the remote control is located in the center of the front, near the top.
There are two adjustable front feet, at the far left and far right bottom.
Moving to the top of the PT-AX200U home theater projector, it is virtually identical to the older
PT-AX100U. As on the older Panasonic home theater projector, the PT-AX200U has a large
power button (press once for on, twice for off), in the center near the front of the projector. To
its immediate right (looking at the top, from behind the projector) is the Input selector button
that toggles you through the various inputs. Next is the Menu button and to its right, four
arrow keys in a diamond configuration, with an Enter button in the middle of them. Near the
Input and Menu buttons are three indicator lights (power, lamp, temp, etc.), and the Light
Harmonizer 2 sensor, which reads room ambient light so the projector can compensate. That
takes care of everything on the top of this Panasonic home theater projector.
Moving to the back, you'll find the input panel. The PT-AX200U is typically endowed, for a low
cost (but not "entry level) home theater projector. There are, most importantly, two HDMI
inputs and they are 1.3 compatible.
