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helios studio edition

avielo by projectiondesign

avielo by projectiondesign home cinema projectors are

designed, manufactured, and caressed in house. Our

philosophy, goal and desire is to serve you with the best

image quality available anywhere. Therefore, we keep it

all in house, with direct control over all development and

manufacturing.

Our entire team is built up of highly passionate video and

film enthusiasts, all dedicated to bringing the real cinema

experience closer to you. By combining passion and

knowledge with state of the art technology, we believe

we are closer than anyone in providing this.

Quality is our outmost consern. Selling a projector for

home cinema is not just like selling any product. It is

selling our dedication and lifestyle, and at the same time

attending to yours.

helios studio edition

The helios studio edition takes everything one step further.

helios is already established in the market as a unique and

revolutionary projector. The studio edition takes it one step

further with hand selected optical components, matched

lamps and each one is built to order, not mass produced.

The result of this unique approach make the helios studio

edition brighter with better uniformity, better contrast

and an even wider colour gamut.

DLP technology – chosen for reliability

The DLP technology from Texas Instruments® is chosen

for its unmatched reliability, and its unique coupling with

long lasting image quality. With a widely recognised

and proven reliability record and high brightness and

contrast, all whilst displaying utterly natural colours, it is

the obvious choice for heavy duty applications that run

continuously, or are mission critical. Independent testing

has proven DLP technology to be the most reliable of all

microdisplays; not degrading when subjected to UV light,

inherent in all projectors. Unlike competing technologies,

showing severe image quality degradation after only a

few thousand hours, DLP technology remains constant

over hundreds of thousands of hours.

3-chip DLP®

3-chip DLP technology is renowned for producing

formidable on-screen images, as it uses three DMD®

(Digital Micromirrod Device) imagers for strongly saturated

and accurate colours. With lots of brightness from the

3-chip engine’s high efficiency, and many options for

adjusting colour and brightness performance, the helios

studio edition can be calibrated for maximum contrast

and perfect colour resulting in the same image the director

intended in your home for years to come.

Not your standard 3-chip projector

Optical Engine - helios studio edition is not your

“standard” 3-chip projector. All competing 3-chip

projectors on the market use the same standard optical

engine across the board. In order to achieve maximum

performance from the technology, projectiondesign has

created a completely unique 3-chip design that is unlike

anything else. We also use a robot to automatically

align the DMD. The revolutionary design of the helios

studio edition optical engine provides advanced

benefits for the high end home theater customer.

helios studio edition

helios studio edition

avielo M&E series

All avielo M & E series projectors are designed, developed,

rigorously tested and verified in-house in Fredrikstad,

Norway. With more than 800 models and variations of

projectors in regular manufacture, our research, test and

verification facilities include everything from acoustical

analysis labs, a full featured FCC certified EMC lab,

environmental labs for lifetime and operational testing

such as temperature variations and vibration resistance as

well as our highly regarded optics labs where we design

the superior lenses that deliver the images to the screen.

Signature Series Lenses

The avielo series features a wide range of ultra high

quality projection lenses, hand picked for their superior

performance. We measure each lens and look at the lens

MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) value; just the top

5% will pass the test. This guarantees the best possible

image quality, colour display, and contrast, not to mention

sharpness and focus. All signature lenses are engraved

with the inscription “signature series” -all approved by

the designer.

Lens Memory

The helios studio edition features a wide range of custom

designed, precision ground projection lenses for the best

quality imaging, and the most secure and reliable setup.

Key features include infinitely adjustable IRIS and aperture

settings, and motorized zoom, focus and lens shift with

memory for use in multiple settings and installations with

programmed calibration and screen setups. Especially

the memorized IRIS function is perfect for a motorized

anamorphic lens system where you increase the screen size

width by 33% and therefore need another brightness level

on the screen. With the lens memory you can pre-program

up to 10 different settings for various film formats.

Advanced Color Optical Processing(ACOP)

The helios studio edition feature new and revolutionary

projectiondesign optical color processing technology. By

combining fixed and motorised optical filters for each

colour channel, red, green, and blue, the projector can

be optically calibrated with near infinite accuracy. It also

means that by the flick of a switch, you can change the

projected colour gamut from REC709 (High Definition

programming), to comply with for instance DCI. All

this without any loss of bit depth, as the compensation

is purely optical, and not electronic. Unlike competing

projectors, where colour calibration is based upon a

simple yellow notch filter to change the green point of the

picture, or simply by changing electronic values, ACOP

gives vastly superior performance on all important levels.

The REC 709 and DCI are color models optimized for

video, Where red, green, and blue light are added together

in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. All

professional film studios use these colour standards in

the making of movies. The avielo helios studio edition,

by projectiondesign shows our commitment to color

standards more than any other projector in the market

today and can guarantee that color accuracy can be

calibrated in 3 dimensions to support both Rec709 and

DCI color standards to perfection

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CIE chart showing REC709 and DCI colour Gamut

RealColor™ colour calibration

Each helios studio edition projector is uniquely

characterised and calibrated during manufacture.

Unique optical performance values are recorded and

matched to the electronic image processing to secure

perfect on-site calibration. With RealColor, it is possible

to match any number of projectors, and ensure they

all project the same primaries and grey scale, without

going through a very complicated process. Using

our ProNet 2.0 software automates this process.

What RealColor gives

RealColor provides a unique and quick way to calibrate

and set up perfect images for any number of projectors.

RealColor can alter imagery by changing simple

characteristics such as the colour temperature of the

image – perfectly along the black body curve, or very

complex details such as each colour’s relative saturation

and x,y coordiantes. RealColor works by mathematically

calculating each colour independently, in fact, it is

perfect to within 0.002 along all axes of measurement.

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grading in final post on feature film - Ninaithale Inikkum Image credit: Gemini Film Circuit

Post Production

The avielo helios studio edition builds on and uses

technology from the widely acclaimed projectiondesign

professional projectors that are used in the movie and

entertainment business markets, and directly draws

on the experiences from major movie directors and

cinematographers. It is what they use in the final

production process of the movie blockbusters creating

stunning imagery that you want to see in your own home

theater.

Throughout the manufacture of each avielo helios studio

edition projector, each member of the production team

make extraordinarily meticulous efforts to measure each

component to ensure that it attains the high standards

expected of it. Even the dual lamps in each projector

are matched by hand and eye – another key factor in

achieving image uniformity and quality.

For the serious home-theater enthusiast, there is no more

exclusive projector out there than the avielo helios studio

edition

3D grading and post suite at E-Motion, Genoa Italy. David Bush operates the Pablo 4K stereoscopic suite

Technical specifications helios studio edition

projector full HD 1080p home cinema DLP®

display concept three chip, 0.95” DC4 1080p DMD™

Brightness 12fl at 275” diagonal or 6000 lumens

compatibility 1080i/p, 720p, 576i/p, 480ip, PAL

optics and lamp “signature series”

projection lenses

standard projection
lenses

lens offset adjustable: vertical ±117%, horizontal

projector

1920 x 1080 resolution

SECAM, NTSC digital and analogue RGB

1.70 – 2.55, 2.5 – 4.00, 3.90 – 6.24 : 1

0.74:1, 1.2 – 1.70 : 1

±84%

contrast >10000 : 1 (native optical contrast)

lamp 2x 330W FusionPlus VIDI UHP™

lamp life
expectancy

connectivity video HDMI 1.3a (HDCP)

control LAN (TCP/IP), RS232, USB

general power

requirements

dimensions (d x
w x h)

weight about 22 kg / 48.5 lbs. (excluding lens)

conformances CE, CSA, FCC Class B, CCC

available colours etruscan bronze

warranties 3 years limited warranty,

2500 hours typical in standard power
mode

DVI-I (HDCP) (HDMI 1.3 compatible)
1x RCA (YPbPr, YCbCr) (component
video)
1x S-Video (s-video)
1x RCA (composite video)
HDD-15 (RGBHV, RGBS, RGSB, YUV)

IR remote control with IR repeater input
AMX Device Discovery, Crestron Certified
Partner

12.5A or 6.5A, 100-120V or 200-240V,
50-60Hz

604 x 501 x 250 mm (excluding lens)

90 days/500 hours on lamp. Conditions
apply

helios studio edition

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