Other primary menus include the Options menu shown to the right. The first item, labeled Picture Mode, offers selection of one of the Panasonic LB60’s presets, including Dynamic, Natural, and Standard. In addition, you have the control of Panasonic’s Daylight View, as described in the previous section. The Picture menu handles standard functions, including contrast and brightness, color temperature and sharpness. As you can see here, the Picture menu choices are displayed. The primary menus are all located on the left, with the first of those being the picture menu. Hitting the Menu button on the remote, or the control panel brings up the the menu seen on the right. Lastly Panasonic’s Daylight View, may not change the world, but it is a nice, fully automatic touch that does improve the overall picture when the lights get turned up.
#Daylight software reviews full#
So, overall, what can we say about the LB60NTU and its almost identical LB60U which should have identical image quality performance? The projector is very bright, especially for one under 6 pounds, and can handle presentations in almost any sized room from small to large, with full bright lighting in the smaller rooms, and a fair amount in even a hotel ballroom.Ĭolors are rich, and accurate, the image (including small text), is very sharp, and it handles higher resolution computer sources about as well as can be expected. Since few presenters will rarely try to tweak their projector’s settings moments before their presentation begins, having Daylight View, should prove to be a plus. The projector senses the room lighting and digs into its bag of possible compensations, and picks out one that should do the best job.
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In the case of the Panasonic, LB60NTU, this is all handled automatically.
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This is the same reason many other projectors offer multiple presets like “Bright” and “Dynamic”, as well as brightness, contrast, and color saturation controls. It does enhance an image to allow it to hold up better in ambient light. It works as suggested, but, it doesn’t make the “night and day” kind of difference Panasonic alludes to. Most unfortunately, the images above do not really show the difference, as well as when viewed “live”.īottom line – Daylight View is a very nice touch. However, by making those dark shades lighter, they would stand up better to bright lights. This is most noticeable on the yellow and purple front slices and the light blue slice on the right of the pie. On the second image you will note that darker shades in the front (depth) of the slices are lighter and results in less contrast between the dark front, and the lighter top of the slices. You can notice several changes between the two. So that we could illustrate it, we left the room lighting the same, but in the first image we covered the sensor, simulating a dark room, and in the second image, we made sure plenty of light was hitting the sensor to get Daylight View to “do its thing”. The two images here, show the differences that Daylight View imparts.
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Mind you, it can’t make the projector any brighter, but what it does, is increase the color saturation, and it would seem, contrast, gamma, and other parameters that work well to keep colors, particulary softer, less saturated ones, from washing out. Based on that, the projector’s firmware, adjusts the image to compensate. What does Daylight View do? First, the LB60NTU has a light sensor on the top of the projector, so that the projector is “aware” of the level of room lighting.
#Daylight software reviews series#
The LB60 series now boasts second generation Daylight View, with slightly improved performance. Although Panasonic makes huge claims for what Daylight view does – adjust the image automatically and dynamically to compensate as best possible for ambient light, – we found Daylight Wiew to perform well, and be of real benefit, but not live up to the full hype. Last year we reviewed two Panasonic projectors (LB20U, and LB30NTU – the LB60NTU’s predecessor).