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Panasonic projector makes live debut at Lille festival

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July 24, 2026

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Panasonic debuted its PT-RQ45, its latest high-end projector, at Lille Video Mapping Festival, transforming Opéra de Lille into a living canvas.

Each spring since 2018, the French city of Lille is reimagined through light and creativity as the Lille Video Mapping Festival transforms its most iconic architecture into large-scale digital artworks.

Across a two-day event spanning more than 11 sites, the 2026 festival drew over 200.000 visitors and the huge crowds were treated to a shared experience of visual storytelling, according to a press release..

As a showpiece at this year's event, and measuring 30 meters high by 42 meters wide within the Place du Théâtre, the Opera's façade demanded exceptional projection precision.

It provided the perfect setting for the first live show deployment of Panasonic's latest MEVIX PT-RQ45, with three 40,000-lumen 3-Chip DLP projectors installed in portrait orientation at a projection distance of 42 meters, according to the release. The set-up created a 3840 x 2160 canvas across three blended images with just a one-meter soft edge overlap.

"Three years ago, we needed six 20,000-lumen projectors to cover a similar façade. Now, with three PT-RQ45 units delivering twice the brightness, we achieved the same scale with a much simpler setup," Pascal Leroy, a video engineer on the project, said in the release.

With 42,000 lumens of brightness and 4K resolution, the system maintained vivid, high-contrast imagery even within the ambient lighting of Lille's busy city square.

"This entire festival is such a sight to behold and we are immensely proud to see such an iconic building in Lille reimagined with Panasonic innovation and the great teams at Rencontres Audiovisuelles and MammasONica. The PT-RQ45 did more than deliver a projection — it enabled a dialogue between past and present, where historic architecture met contemporary digital expression and the results were simply fantastic," Florence Antony, regional marketing for Panasonic Visual System Solutions (France), said in the release.