High Definition DLP Projector VP-12S3

VP-12S3 High Definition DLP™ Projector Optics In/Outputs • Texas Instruments HD2+ Video Inputs Digital Light Processing™ Technology Composite Video 1 (RCA) Y/C 1 (S-Video) • High Definition (1280 x 720), DMD™ Component NTSC/ATSC 2 (3x RCA) Semiconductor RGB/HD 1 (VGA D-Sub 15) • Newly Developed Custom Optics by Minolta DVI with HDCP 1 (29 Digital Pin) High Definition DLP Projector VP-12S3 • 16:9 Aspect Ratio RS232C 1 (D-Sub 9) • > 3800:1 Contrast Ratio RC-5 1 (3.5 mm mini) • > 700 ANSI Lumens Brightness Outputs DC Trigger 2 (3.5 mm mini) • Adjustable Iris RC-5 1 (3.5 mm mini) • Brightness Uniformity: 90% • No Halo Effect Specifications • Lens Up/Down Shift Construction Optical Characteristics • Sealed Optical Path Panel 0.85 Inch 16:9 • No Light Leakage (Double Sealed Cabinet 1,280 x 720 Pixels Structure) Lamp 200 W SHP DC Powered Lens f: 26.5 to 30.7 / F: 3.0 - F:5.0 • Extremely Quiet (Noise Cancelling Construction, Throw Distance 80"-8.6ft, 100"-10.9ft Sealed Color Wheel Motor) Projection Size 40 to 250 inches • Long Life Lamp (Average 2000 Hours) Light Output > 700 ANSI LUMEN Typical Operating Temperature 5°C to 35°C Electronics & Software Operating Humidity 30% to 85% • Full Digital Device Accessories • Video Processing Using Faroudja® Processing with DCDi™ Enhancement Lens Cap 1 Auto Calibration Lens Cap 1 • 3-2 Pulldown Progressive Scan Film Detection Remote Control 1 • 10-bit Digital Gamma Processing Batteries 2 • Horizontal and Vertical Keystone Correction AC Power Code 1 (Only for 125 V) User Guide 1 • Accepts All Modes of NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and Control Adapter Cable 1 (Mini Jack to RCA) ATSC Including HDTV Ferrite Cores 2 • DVI with HDCP Digital Input General • PC Signal VGA to SXGA Color Charcoal Grey/Violet • 7 Picture Modes: Theater, Standard, Dynamic, User Chassis Aluminum Diecast A, User B, User C Remote Control RC12VPS3 • 5 Preset User Gammas Power Requirement AC 100-120 V / 220-240 V, 50/60 Hz • 18 Picture Memories Power Consumption < 300 W • 4 Aspect Modes Standby Consumption < 3.3 W 15 9 3 Dimensions Inches (W x D x H) 15 /16" x 18 /16" x 5 /16" (excl. Feet) • 5 Color Temperatures 5 7 Feet Adjustment /8" – 2 /16" • Black Level Selection Weight 26.1 lbs. • System Control Through RS232C Safety UL6500, CSA E60065, EN60950 • 2 Triggers for Powered Screen Control EMC FCC Part-15 Class-B, EN55022 • Economy Lamp Mode

Screen Size Throw Distance* Throw (Diagonal) Minimum Maximum Distance

Inch Long Throw Standard Long Throw Standard SCREEN

9 7 1 11 LENS SHIFT 40 78 /16"50/16" 107 /16"58/16" Screen Size 7 9 11 60 118 /8"76/16" 161 /16" 89" (Diagonal) 1 3 5 1 80 159 /4" 102 /4" 216 /16" 119 /4" 5 7 15 9 100 199 /8" 128 /8" 270 /16" 149 /16" 9 13 120 240" 155" 325 /16" 179 /16" 1 1 9 1 150 300 /2" 194 /4" 407 /16" 225 /4" 7 5 1 15 200 401 /16" 259 /8" 544 /8" 300 /16" 5 11 11 250 502 /16" 325" 680 /16" 376 /16"

3 3 3 Note: Long Throw = 2" x Screen Size/16" - 2 Long Throw /=4" 2x Screen Size /-16 "2 5 7 1 7 Tolerance ±5% 16 8 2 8 Standard =/ 1" x Screen Size /- "1 Standard /=" 1 x Screen Size /- "1 SCREEN LENS SHIFT The DLP™ logo, DLP™ Medallion and Digital Micromirror Device™ Semiconductor are trademarks of Texas Instruments. DCDi® is a registered trademark of Faroudja

For more information on the VP-12S3 Long "Throw Distance" Projector please contact your authorized Marantz Dealers. Throw * For use with 16 x 9 screen Distance

Printed on recycled paper because trees matter. All specifications, dimensions and weights are subject to change without notice. ©2003 Marantz America, Inc. 11/03 www.marantz.com Marantz America, Inc. 1100 Maplewood Dr., Itasca, IL 60143 630-741-0300 Fax: 630-741-0301 www.marantz.com VP-12S3 High Definition DLP© Video Projector ORCA™ Filtering With a New DC Powered 200 Watt SHP Bulb High pressure short gap arc bulbs that are used in video projection have an unusually high amount of yellow Beyond Reproach! content in their spectrum. This typically results in a shift in the colors, particularly green, which comprises For the past two years, Marantz has set the standard by which all other solid state home theater video projectors are judged. over 50% of the picture content. Marantz engineers, in a bold stroke, developed a color correction filter called First, we introduced the VP-12S1 with its 1200:1 contrast ratio, Minolta optics and Faroudja DCDi® video processing. Next ORCA (the Optical Reproduction of Color Accuracy), that filters out the excess yellow, creating a very neutral came the award winning VP-12S2, which improved the contrast ratio to 2600:1 and reproduced the kind of black levels that white light that passes through the color wheel. This results in the most accurate color palette ever achieved made even CRT lovers stand up and take notice. By adding a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) connection, the VP-12S2 was in a video projector and has been balanced to meet the HD color space (ITU-RBT709). This is an industry able to take advantage of today’s digital video sources such as DVD and HD, to their fullest capacities. But we weren’t content first and a Marantz exclusive! The light itself is generated by a new bulb that is DC powered. This 200 Watt to just sit back and enjoy the accolades. With our newest DLP Projector, we are proud to introduce the latest invocation of bulb is brighter and less prone to flicker than any other lighting technology available. Texas Instruments’ DLP® technology and Marantz innovation to bring you the VP-12S3. With even better black levels, higher contrast, and a slew of other unique technologies, the VP-12S3 might be the last video projector you will ever own. Faroudja Video Processing Today’s video sources have two different configurations: interlaced and progressive. They also have many different resolutions: from 702 x 480 pixels of interlaced video in the NTSC format all the way up to 1280 x 780 pixels progressively scanned or 1920 x 1080 pixels displayed in an interlaced fashion for HDTV. In order to fill the screen on a fixed resolution device like the VP-12S3 with it’s 1280 x 720 pixels and maintain HD picture quality, extremely high quality video processing is required. For the VP-12S3, Marantz turned to the best resource: Faroudja Laboratories, the inventor of the first high quality line doubler, the originator of inverse telecine processing (better known as 3:2 pulldown), and three time Emmy® award winner for excellence in video imagery. Suffice to say, that the VP- 12S3 has the best video processing available today in an all-in-one product.

Custom Optics by Minolta All of this excellent picture circuitry won’t do any good if you can’t get the image to the screen properly. For this reason we chose custom ground optics by Minolta, long known for its incredible lenses in its professional and consumer cameras. These optics feature a sealed light path so that the normal dust and smoke that exist in a typical home environment won’t ever intrude on the image. There is even a special long throw version of the VP-12S3 which allows for “back of the room”, or even “out-of-the-room” installation options. In addition, the VP-12S3 has an iris with two settings. The F3 setting (open) allows more light to pass through the lens at the expense of the absolute black level, for situations where high brightness is desirable. The F5 setting (closed) lowers the brightness slightly, but offers the most three-dimensional, lowest black level image in the industry.

Auto Calibration System One of the areas of concern to the “videophile” is making sure the color of gray is accurate. Texas Instruments HD2+ DLP® Technology Because gray is a mixture of all of the other colors, if gray is wrong, everything else will be too. The VP-12S3 is one of the first video projectors to take advantage of Texas Instruments’ newest evolution of their DMD We have had very accurate grayscale reproduction in the past, even offering fine tuning controls. These controls were best used by professional aftermarket technicians using very technology with the new HD2+ DLP® chipset. This series of technologies combines to bring the viewer unprecedented black levels, contrast ratio, and even better low level accuracy than before, making shadow details more visible and rivaling film in specialized color analyzation equipment. To simplify this procedure, Marantz has developed a its dynamic range. special auto calibration device. This is a special color analyzer that fits over the lens like a lenscap. The user will connect the cable that is attached to the analyzer to the RS232C port on the projector and the VP-12S3 will project a series of test signals that when finished will yield perfect grayscale reproduction, even as the bulb ages. This is an industry first! Smaller Pivot Post By decreasing the size of the pivot post in the middle of each of the 921,600 micromirrors, more New - Lower Noise Mode light is reflected through the optical assembly and less is scattered internally, resulting in a mind Because of our aluminum diecast chassis with ductwork specially designed to reduce noise, the boggling 3800:1 contrast ratio! VP-12S3 is already one of the quietest devices of its genre. However, there is a new economy mode which reduces the light output, creating less heat which slows the fan down more for virtually silent operation. For times where audio fidelity is of the utmost importance, silence is golden. Seven Segment Color Wheel For less dithering of low level signals, Marantz uses a special new color wheel with a 7th dark green View it For Yourself segment which helps in keeping colors accurate at low signal levels. This aids considerably in the Everything here is impressive but nowhere near as revealing as a personal viewing experience. Visit your local rendering of extremely dark signals which makes for an even more pleasing experience, especially for movies which might have authorized Marantz dealer and see first-hand why the VP-12S3 has every other manufacturer is scrambling to previously been very difficult for solid state projectors to reproduce. play catch-up. VP-12S3 High Definition DLP© Video Projector ORCA™ Filtering With a New DC Powered 200 Watt SHP Bulb High pressure short gap arc bulbs that are used in video projection have an unusually high amount of yellow Beyond Reproach! content in their spectrum. This typically results in a shift in the colors, particularly green, which comprises For the past two years, Marantz has set the standard by which all other solid state home theater video projectors are judged. over 50% of the picture content. Marantz engineers, in a bold stroke, developed a color correction filter called First, we introduced the VP-12S1 with its 1200:1 contrast ratio, Minolta optics and Faroudja DCDi® video processing. Next ORCA (the Optical Reproduction of Color Accuracy), that filters out the excess yellow, creating a very neutral came the award winning VP-12S2, which improved the contrast ratio to 2600:1 and reproduced the kind of black levels that white light that passes through the color wheel. This results in the most accurate color palette ever achieved made even CRT lovers stand up and take notice. By adding a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) connection, the VP-12S2 was in a video projector and has been balanced to meet the HD color space (ITU-RBT709). This is an industry able to take advantage of today’s digital video sources such as DVD and HD, to their fullest capacities. But we weren’t content first and a Marantz exclusive! The light itself is generated by a new bulb that is DC powered. This 200 Watt to just sit back and enjoy the accolades. With our newest DLP Projector, we are proud to introduce the latest invocation of bulb is brighter and less prone to flicker than any other lighting technology available. Texas Instruments’ DLP® technology and Marantz innovation to bring you the VP-12S3. With even better black levels, higher contrast, and a slew of other unique technologies, the VP-12S3 might be the last video projector you will ever own. Faroudja Video Processing Today’s video sources have two different configurations: interlaced and progressive. They also have many different resolutions: from 702 x 480 pixels of interlaced video in the NTSC format all the way up to 1280 x 780 pixels progressively scanned or 1920 x 1080 pixels displayed in an interlaced fashion for HDTV. In order to fill the screen on a fixed resolution device like the VP-12S3 with it’s 1280 x 720 pixels and maintain HD picture quality, extremely high quality video processing is required. For the VP-12S3, Marantz turned to the best resource: Faroudja Laboratories, the inventor of the first high quality line doubler, the originator of inverse telecine processing (better known as 3:2 pulldown), and three time Emmy® award winner for excellence in video imagery. Suffice to say, that the VP- 12S3 has the best video processing available today in an all-in-one product.

Auto Calibration System One of the areas of concern to the “videophile” is making sure the color of gray is accurate. Texas Instruments HD2+ DLP® Technology Because gray is a mixture of all of the other colors, if gray is wrong, everything else will be too. The VP-12S3 is one of the first video projectors to take advantage of Texas Instruments’ newest evolution of their DMD We have had very accurate grayscale reproduction in the past, even offering fine tuning controls. These controls were best used by professional aftermarket technicians using very technology with the new HD2+ DLP® chipset. This series of technologies combines to bring the viewer unprecedented black levels, contrast ratio, and even better low level accuracy than before, making shadow details more visible and rivaling film in specialized color analyzation equipment. To simplify this procedure, Marantz has developed a its dynamic range. special auto calibration device. This is a special color analyzer that fits over the lens like a lenscap. The user will connect the cable that is attached to the analyzer to the RS232C port on the projector and the VP-12S3 will project a series of test signals that when finished will yield perfect grayscale reproduction, even as the bulb ages. This is an industry first! Smaller Pivot Post By decreasing the size of the pivot post in the middle of each of the 921,600 micromirrors, more New - Lower Noise Mode light is reflected through the optical assembly and less is scattered internally, resulting in a mind Because of our aluminum diecast chassis with ductwork specially designed to reduce noise, the boggling 3800:1 contrast ratio! VP-12S3 is already one of the quietest devices of its genre. However, there is a new economy mode which reduces the light output, creating less heat which slows the fan down more for virtually silent operation. For times where audio fidelity is of the utmost importance, silence is golden. Seven Segment Color Wheel For less dithering of low level signals, Marantz uses a special new color wheel with a 7th dark green View it For Yourself segment which helps in keeping colors accurate at low signal levels. This aids considerably in the Everything here is impressive but nowhere near as revealing as a personal viewing experience. Visit your local rendering of extremely dark signals which makes for an even more pleasing experience, especially for movies which might have authorized Marantz dealer and see first-hand why the VP-12S3 has every other manufacturer is scrambling to previously been very difficult for solid state projectors to reproduce. play catch-up. VP-12S3 High Definition DLP™ Projector Optics In/Outputs • Texas Instruments HD2+ Video Inputs Digital Light Processing™ Technology Composite Video 1 (RCA) Y/C 1 (S-Video) • High Definition (1280 x 720), DMD™ Component NTSC/ATSC 2 (3x RCA) Semiconductor RGB/HD 1 (VGA D-Sub 15) • Newly Developed Custom Optics by Minolta DVI with HDCP 1 (29 Digital Pin) High Definition DLP Projector VP-12S3 • 16:9 Aspect Ratio RS232C 1 (D-Sub 9) • > 3800:1 Contrast Ratio RC-5 1 (3.5 mm mini) • > 700 ANSI Lumens Brightness Outputs DC Trigger 2 (3.5 mm mini) • Adjustable Iris RC-5 1 (3.5 mm mini) • Brightness Uniformity: 90% • No Halo Effect Specifications • Lens Up/Down Shift Construction Optical Characteristics • Sealed Optical Path Panel 0.85 Inch 16:9 • No Light Leakage (Double Sealed Cabinet 1,280 x 720 Pixels Structure) Lamp 200 W SHP DC Powered Lens f: 26.5 to 30.7 / F: 3.0 - F:5.0 • Extremely Quiet (Noise Cancelling Construction, Throw Distance 80"-8.6ft, 100"-10.9ft Sealed Color Wheel Motor) Projection Size 40 to 250 inches • Long Life Lamp (Average 2000 Hours) Light Output > 700 ANSI LUMEN Typical Operating Temperature 5°C to 35°C Electronics & Software Operating Humidity 30% to 85% • Full Digital Device Accessories • Video Processing Using Faroudja® Processing with DCDi™ Enhancement Lens Cap 1 Auto Calibration Lens Cap 1 • 3-2 Pulldown Progressive Scan Film Detection Remote Control 1 • 10-bit Digital Gamma Processing Batteries 2 • Horizontal and Vertical Keystone Correction AC Power Code 1 (Only for 125 V) User Guide 1 • Accepts All Modes of NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and Control Adapter Cable 1 (Mini Jack to RCA) ATSC Including HDTV Ferrite Cores 2 • DVI with HDCP Digital Input General • PC Signal VGA to SXGA Color Charcoal Grey/Violet • 7 Picture Modes: Theater, Standard, Dynamic, User Chassis Aluminum Diecast A, User B, User C Remote Control RC12VPS3 • 5 Preset User Gammas Power Requirement AC 100-120 V / 220-240 V, 50/60 Hz • 18 Picture Memories Power Consumption < 300 W • 4 Aspect Modes Standby Consumption < 3.3 W 15 9 3 Dimensions Inches (W x D x H) 15 /16" x 18 /16" x 5 /16" (excl. Feet) • 5 Color Temperatures 5 7 Feet Adjustment /8" – 2 /16" • Black Level Selection Weight 26.1 lbs. • System Control Through RS232C Safety UL6500, CSA E60065, EN60950 • 2 Triggers for Powered Screen Control EMC FCC Part-15 Class-B, EN55022 • Economy Lamp Mode

Screen Size Throw Distance* Throw (Diagonal) Minimum Maximum Distance

Inch Long Throw Standard Long Throw Standard SCREEN

For more information on the VP-12S3 Long "Throw Distance" Projector please contact your authorized Marantz Dealers. Throw * For use with 16 x 9 screen Distance