SANYO LP-XU106 4500 Lumen Projector

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There are a couple of things that reign supreme when it comes to portable projectors, size and brightness. If they are too big to carry around comfortable, most people won’t bother to carry them around. If they’re not bright enough to broadcast a decent picture on the wall or screen or wherever it is that you are projecting onto, it might as well be an overpriced paperweight. Well, when it comes to portable projectors, it would seem that SANYO of Japan has managed to eke out a winner with the LP-XU106. Billed as the world’s brightest sub-4-kg projector, this little beauty (in white, of course) should definitely make its mark within the category.

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. announced today the release of their LP-XU106 mobile projector. The unit has the industry’s highest brightness, 4,500 lumens, in the ultra portable classand sports some pretty nifty advanced functions, such as the Corner Keystone Correction Function, and the Easy Setup Function.

The SANYO LP-XU106 mobile projector uses a 275-W high-output lamp and a new optical engine that uses advanced cooling technology so you can safely run your projector without having it burst into flames. This is more than we can say for some other devices. It’s also incredibly compact, weighing just 3.4 kg, and pretty easy to carry. This should make it a good fit for most meeting locations. It features a high contrast ratio of 1000:1 due mainly to the adoption of an inorganic LCD panel for the optical engine.

The SANYO LP-XU106 mobile projector is also the first SANYO projector to be equipped with a Corner Keystone Correction Function that virtually eliminates the distorted trapezoidal screen image caused by projection at an angle. From what I could gather, you basically tweak your distorted image by adjusting the four corners using buttons on the main unit or remote control. No more obtuse PowerPoint presentations. Oh, joy.

Some of the other features include a 1.6x zoom lens that allows for more flexible placement and an Auto Keystone Correction function automatically corrects vertical image distortion, after detecting the slope of the projector. I’m not sure why you would need the manual keystone correction buttons if it automatically does it for you, but anyway…

SANYO’s latest portable projector seems to be a powerful introduction and a worthy competitor in a market where it’s often hard to stand out from the crowd. No word yet on pricing or when it will be available in the States, but we do know that it should hit the streets of Japan sometime this November 20^th. If you want to see more info and all kinds of cute graphics that explain how the Keystone Correction function works (and who doesn’t want to know that?) head on over to sanyo.com.