Sanyo's 802.11n-enabled PLC-WXU700 gets official for the US

Sanyo already announced its PLC-WXU700 for Japan last week (or LP-WX700, as it's known there) but the company has now finally gotten official about its availability over here, and cleared up a bit of confusion in the process. In case you missed it, this one is apparently the world's first projector to pack built-in 802.11n WiFi, which should come in particularly handy with the projector's video streaming functionality. Otherwise, you can expect to get the standard WGXA resolution, along with a decent 3,800 lumens, a 500:1 contrast ratio, all the basic inputs, a USB port, and a plain old LAN port in case you get stuck in a conference room without WiFi. The key detail that's been up in the air, however, is the price, which it turns out is neither $642 or $6,445 but an expectedly disappointing $2,995. Look for it to be available sometime next month.

[rektide @ May 19th 2009 12:32PM]

3800 lumens: its like staring at the sun.

[Albert Valera @ May 19th 2009 12:38PM]

ooohh the posibilities

[Kyle @ May 19th 2009 12:48PM]

Do we mean WXGA?

[Information Central @ May 19th 2009 10:37PM]

It's 2009, many many years after most of the planet stopped using early-'90s nomenclature for video resolution. Remember CGA, VGA, VGA+?

Tell us the resolution IN NUMBERS, not dumb alphabet soup. How many characters do you think you're saving, exactly? Not to mention that you're not really telling us anything definite. From Wikipedia:

"Overall, several resolutions have been labeled as WXGA. These are the most common resolutions given the label (in ascending order by total number of pixels):

* 1280×720[3]
* 1280×768[4]
* 1280×800[5][6]
* 1360×768
* 1366×768[7]"

[Information Central @ May 19th 2009 10:39PM]

That was directed at Engadget, by the way, Kyle.

[KevinT @ May 19th 2009 11:27PM]

Information Central; thanks! Just what I came to the comments section to say myself...

[ms_engadget @ May 19th 2009 1:07PM]

d

[Jon @ May 19th 2009 2:47PM]

Um, Windows-only? No thanks.