Installing a brand new projector is about to get easier as Canon Malaysia launched two new Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) projectors. Say hello to the Canon XEED WUX400ST and WX450ST multimedia projectors and the new short-throw shift-able lens it uses for really effortless installation process.

Weighing around 6.3 kg, both projectors sport a compact design reinforces its feather-like heft. The heart of these two new one-gun solutions is Canon’s new AISYS 5.0 optical system – a projection platform that offers improved panel reflectivity, enhanced brightness performance, and reduced respective power consumption of 0.091 Watts and 0.079 Watts per lumens rating.

Complementing the visual equipment is the proprietary short-throw shift-able lens that both WUX400ST and WX450ST use to easily and quickly project on a wide and varied vertical range of approximately 75% and 77% respectively. The two can even project on a horizontal range of approximately 10%. The updated lens-shift capabilities both are using allow them to be used in a number of places and free up space on the table.

While both have a few dissimilar features, it must be said that both are made for specific reasons. In the case of the Canon WUX400ST, it supports WUXGA (1920 x 1200 pixels) with a brightness of 4,000 lumens, promising near Full HD performance. As for the WX450ST, it supports WXGA+ (1440 x 900 pixels), featuring a brightness of 4,500 lumens. The LCOS technology used ensure these projectors can do their job images without any ‘lattice effects’ – a phenomenon where a faint grid pattern appears over the projected image.

As both projectors use the latest in Canon proprietary image processors, another feature that must be included is the 4-Point Keystone Correction function that ensures high-quality images from almost any projection angle. It is able to achieve this by allowing users to adjust the four corners of the projected images individually. Genius move!