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2023-01-03 12:32:11

I’ve spent some time researching and shopping for affordable 1080p projectors for my home entertainment system the last couple of months and finally settled on the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (V11H373120)

Why Did I Choose 3 LCD over DLP? I had two options both in affordable ranges but after doing a bit of research I found that most of the DLP projectors in my price range did not have a lens shift feature. These are the little knobs you twist on the projector to move the picture up and down and left and right which was an important feature requirement to me. Because the low price DLP projectors don’t have lens shift adjustment you have to be very careful about where you place them. Low price LCD projectors on the other hand usually have at minimum up and down lens tilt. The 8350 has up / down and left / right lens tilt. Additionally the DLP projectors in this range did not have a wide zoom lens adjustment. You use the zoom lens to shrink or enlarge the image to fit your screen. The Epson 8350 has a 2.1:1 zoom lens on it which makes it very adjustable compared to the Optoma HD20’s zoom lens which is only a 1.2:1 ratio. The major limiting factor was my 8 foot tall ceiling and the room being 12 feet front to back. The required space and positioning of the DLP type projectors in my room just wouldn’t work out well. One other concern is that some people are sensitive to the DLP rainbow effect and I didn’t want something that’d work for some people and not for others. Who wants a guest that says ‘Just use the TV, the big screen really messes with my eyes’ or something to that effect?

The Epson PowerLite Home Theater 8350.The projector and the mount came in the mail together but the projector screen I ordered an Elite Screens Pull Down Projection Screen, 16:9 Aspect Ratio-92in (Matte White)

The projector installed easily to the ceiling once I used a stud finder to locate the joist in the ceiling to mount it to. The mount, which has to be purchased separately from a third party as it does not come stock with a ceiling mount, used two 3″ long lag bolts on either side of the ceiling plate and was easy to do. I put about a third of my body weight against it to make sure it would not pull out of the joist. It’s important to center the mount left to right with where you plan to install your screen and if you are using a DLP projector you need to read the projectors manual to get the mounting height as well. With an LCD projector that has the lens tilt feature the height is less important.

A reader, GregC, emailed me about the mount I was using and I gave him some details, he decided to go with another type of mount and says he is very happy with it as well. The mount he purchased was the Sanus VP1-B1 for around $229.99 from Best Buy. He said the arms all reached the mounting holes on the projector and that it feels very secure although it cost a bit more. He’s been using his 8350 on a 92″ Stewart screen with the projector mounted 14 feet away from the screen and seems happy watching sports and movies on it.

The remote control for the Epson 8350 is pretty squarish and clean cut, it’s not very stylish but it gives you access to all the settings that you’ll need to adjust the projector and for selecting your source inputs. The back light on the remote is orange and subdued so it won’t be blinding you while trying to watch a move and adjust things.

I set up the Epson Duet screen in the front of the room before the 92-inch Elite Screens pull down arrived. The Duet barely fits in that spot but I do get about 76 of the full 80-inches out of it. The 92-inch Elite pull down screen I ordered is wider but since it does not require a floor stand it will be further back in the room and pull down directly in front of the TV so there should be no issues with the available space for the screen.

I’ve taken some photos of the screen while watching TV, Movies and Blu-Rays and the quality has impressed me for being a ‘entry level’ projector as other reviewers mentioned it’s pretty good. The blacks could be blacker but that’s the only thing I really notice. The Epson 8350 is bright, sharp and very clear. I’ve tried the setup for video games, particularly Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC) , and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (PC) and most recently Portal 2 (PC). The games are great on this projector! I am very satisfied with the performance and quality there as well though it’s a bit weird to play a game on such a huge screen at first and the detail is amazing.

The rest of the photos below were taken of the Epson 8350 projector on the temporary Epson Duet screen. You can see the pictures I took with the 92″ Elite Screens screen installed on my Elite Screens ELIM92UWG Pull Down Projector Screen Review. The pictures were shot with my 8.1 megapixel point and shoot Sony DSC-H10 camera. The Blu-Ray photos are the ones with a higher aspect ratio and are in 1080p the ones which look taller are shot from TV at 1080i with terrible compression from our cable provider.

Overall I’m very happy with this projector so far and I think I’ll be using it for a long time. The quality is stunning compared to the older projectors I’m used to. The brightness of the Epson 8350 is great and even during the daytime, if I have my shades closed the screen is still bright.

The projector makes a great home theatre TV for the price, compared to buying a normal 1080P HD TV. While prices on LCD TV’s have been dropping rapidly a home theater projector and screen is certainly worth a look and your consideration. It may not be for everyone but I wouldn’t dismiss the thought right away because you could be missing out on something great. The news looks great, TV shows look great, movies are incredible and gaming is a blast, especially with friends over.

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There are three main technologies used for projection – DLP, LCD and LED. DLP (Digital Light Processing) uses a chip made of tiny microscopic mirrors and a spinning colour wheel to create an image. DLP projectors deliver sharp images, don"t need any filters, have a better response time as well as 3D capabilities. The effective lamp life of a DLP projector is only 2000-5000 hours and some people see colour ghosting/banding in some scenes. On the other hand, LCD projectors use liquid crystal displays, have no moving parts and thus are generally less expensive. If you are on a budget a single chip LCD projector is ideal while 3-chip LCDs offer better colour saturation, lower noise levels and work better for movies. However, LCDs require constant filter maintenance and output less contrast. The LEDs in LED projectors have a lifespan of over 20,000 hours. They deliver better colours, have lower power consumption and virtually zero maintenance costs. Also, LED projectors are smaller and generate less heat. Do keep in mind that LED projectors have limited brightness compared to LCD or DLP so they are not recommended if your room has a lot of ambient light.

A 3 colour LCD system uses individual LCDs for red, green and blue. The light from each LCD is combined using a prism to create a final image. It usually offers better quality than single chip LCD or DLP designs.

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Epson’s Home Cinema 8350 will shortly be replacing the 8100 (which had received awards from us, and other reviewers/editors). Each year there are a few basically all new projectors, but most are simply minor imrprovements, with sometimes minor additional features. The Home Cinema 8350 is an improved and slightly refined version of the older projector.

The short version, is that last year’s Epson Home Cinema 8100 was a very good projector, and the new Home Cinema 8350 an improved, updated model, so we expect good performance.

It should be noted that the older Epson Home Cinema 8100 received two awards from us: The Best In Class Runner-Up Award in our annual Home Projector Comparison Report in April 2010, (and received our Hot Product Award, when reviewed). Although primarily the same as last year’s model, the Home Cinema 8350’s slightly improved black levels, combined with a lower price, (plus the usual very bright image in brightest mode), and a very long life lamp, made this Epson a likely Hot Product Award candidate.

What’s important about this new projector? The Epson Home Cinema 8350 is very bright in “brightest” mode, has overall good color, and a lot of “pop” to the image. I watched football all weekend on the Epson 8350 – sports looked killer… You’ll get all that, plus, a low cost of operation! And other things, including a very reasonable price. Those are the key reasons this Epson picked up a Hot Product award.

Before I go further, the Home Cinema 8350 has some siblings that should be mentioned. There is the more expensive Home Cinema 8700UB (MAP $2199), which has a bigger price tag, higher contrast, better blacks and a number of “dynamic” features. Then, the two of them have almost identical siblings in the Pro Cinema series, The Pro Cinema 9350.

I mentioned that the Epson is especially bright, at its brightest. In fairness, I must also report that when in its best possible picture mode for movie viewing, the Epson’s brightness is just about average.

This Home Cinema 8350 is the slightly less expensive replacement for Epson’s Home Cinema 8100. At $1299 MAP, this 1080p 3LCD projector claims 2000 lumens (doesn’t get there, but few projectors actually achieve their claims). This Epson projector has excellent placement flexibility and a 2 year warranty.

The Home Cinema 8350 claims 50,000:1 contrast ratio, which will be discussed at length elsewhere in the review. Overall, the Home Cinema 8350 is an improvement over the popular 8100. It is certainly one of the best lower cost 1080p projectors out there, so the real questions are, is it in your budget, will it work for your room setup, the types of content you watch, or is there something else out there, for the same, more or less money, that makes better sense?

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Solid state laser light source; up to 20K hours maintenance-free performance, 4,000 lumens color/white light output; Ultra-short throw, Full HD W UXGA display up to 100" diagonal; 2x interactive area of a 70" flat panel, Enterprise level security, Duolink, Miracast, Whiteboard sharing - local and remote users can collaborate from mobile devices, computers and other BrightLink Pro displays

Solid state laser light source; up to 20K hours maintenance-free performance, 4,000 lumens color/white light output; Ultra-short throw, Full HD WUXGA display up to 130" diagonal; 2x interactive area of a 70" flat panel, Flexible positioning - project larger than life in tight spots without shadows; Install on its side for portrait display.

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The Epson Home Cinema LS11000 is our favorite 4K projector for home theater use because it delivers the best performance with 4K movies that you’ll find for less than $5,000, but also looks great with games, sports, and HDTV when some room lights are on. This 4K LCD projector has great detail, is bright enough to produce satisfying high dynamic range (HDR) video, and has wonderfully accurate color in the Natural picture mode—and the laser light source means you’ll never have to replace a bulb. The LS11000 is very easy to set up and has plenty of advanced features that will please both movie and gaming enthusiasts. The only thing missing is 3D video support.

The Home Cinema LS11000 (and its Pro Cinema counterpart, the LS12000) offer two key improvements over previous Epson home theater projectors. First, Epson has switched to a laser light source instead of a lamp. This brings several benefits, the most important of which is the long lifespan of 20,000 hours. In lamp-based projectors, the bulbs get dimmer, and you need to replace them roughly every 4,000 to 6,000 hours, which adds to the total cost of ownership. The use of a laser light source also lets the projector turn on and off much more quickly, produces rich color, and allows for nearly silent lens adjustments (more on this in a second).

The other improvement is in the pixel-shifting technology that Epson uses to display a 4K resolution. As we mentioned above, only a few 4K projectors actually have a native 4K resolution. The rest use 1080p imaging solutions and rely on some type of pixel-shifting technology to show 4K on the screen. In older Epson models like the Home Cinema 5050UB and the Home Cinema 3800 (our top pick in our guide for living room projectors), Epson only shifts each pixel twice, so you’re really getting twice the resolution of 1080p, not 4K. In the LS11000, though, Epson shifts the pixels four times, which results in better detail. We used resolution test patterns to confirm that you are getting 4K on the screen, and though the lines in these patterns aren’t quite as clear as what you see with a native 4K projector or 4K TV, they’re on a par with what you see from a pixel-shifting 4K DLP projector. With real-world Ultra HD discs like Dune and Justice League and Netflix shows like Our Planet, the 4K image on our 100-inch screen looked crisp and detailed.

The use of an all-glass lens also helps with image clarity, and Epson’s Image Enhancement tool lets you further tweak the picture clarity and sharpness. You can choose from five presets or adjust several different controls individually. At the minimum preset of 1, the picture looked a little softer than that of a 4K DLP projector we used for comparison. At the maximum preset of 5, the image clarity between the two was identical, but a little overly sharp in a fake way. I preferred a setting of 2 or 3, but there’s a nice degree of flexibility to dial in the level of clarity you want.

Of course, detail is just one aspect of picture quality. The LS11000’s true strengths lie in its good brightness and contrast, its rich yet accurate color with both SDR and HDR video, and its ability to render a very clean image without a lot of digital noise and other artifacts. Epson’s claimed brightness is 2,500 ANSI lumens, and we actually got almost exactly that when measuring the Dynamic picture mode at maximum brightness on our 100-inch, 0.95-gain screen. But that mode isn’t very color-accurate, with an overly green color temperature (or color of white) and oversaturated color. It’ll do for the occasional daytime sporting or gaming activity—but for movie watching, our measurements showed the Natural picture mode to be the most accurate. Wonderfully accurate, actually, so there was really no need to make any advanced color adjustments. In the Natural mode, we measured a maximum brightness of 1,867 lumens, which is still bright enough that we could watch HDTV and sports with the room lights turned up. While most lower-priced projectors only offer high and low brightness modes, the LS11000’s brightness can be adjusted incrementally to more precisely tailor it to your room conditions.

The Home Cinema LS11000’s connection panel includes two high-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 inputs, a powered USB port, and RS-232 and LAN ports for integration into an advanced control system. Photo: Michael Murtaugh

The LS11000 does not use Epson’s UltraBlack technology that allows for the deepest, darkest black levels. To get that, you either have to move up to the $5,000 Pro Cinema LS12000 or move down to the $3,000 Home Cinema 5050UB, which is lamp-based and doesn’t have a true 4K resolution. We felt that the LS11000’s black level was good enough to produce a pleasingly rich, saturated movie image in a dark room, and the benefits it offers over the 5050UB are worth the tradeoff. But if you’re a black-level purist, you might want to consider the other options.

Like on previous Epson projectors, the LS11000’s lens iris can be set to automatically adjust the image brightness and black level to suit the content being shown. This is called dynamic contrast (as opposed to native contrast, which is what the lens is capable of on its own). In older Epson models, we often recommended that you turn this feature off because you could see and hear the iris/lamp making adjustments (the brightness level would shift noticeably on screen), and it was distracting. But now, thanks to the laser light source, this function happens so quickly and silently, there’s no reason not to use it—and it improves the image contrast significantly (about four times the native contrast, by our measurements).

The LS11000 has a 120 Hz refresh rate, which helps improve motion clarity and allows you to turn on motion smoothing if you’re into that kind of thing. The higher refresh rate, mated with the two HDMI 2.1 inputs that accept a 4K/120 Hz signal, makes this projector a good match for the newest Xbox and PlayStation gaming consoles. The inclusion of HDMI 2.1 is quite rare on projectors at this point. Epson lists the input lag at 20 milliseconds, so there should be minimal delay between when you perform an action in the game and when you see it on the screen.

As for its physical design, the LS11000 has a white finish, weighs 28 pounds, and measures 20.5 by 17.6 by 7.6 inches. It is certainly bigger and heavier than your average 1080p home projector (like our budget recommendation, the BenQ HT2050A), but its size is on a par with most high-performance 4K. It should fit in most ceiling mounts. Epson is more generous with its setup tools than any other projector manufacturer: The 2.1x zoom, 96.3% vertical lens shift, and 47.1% horizontal lens shift made it easy to precisely place the image on our screen, and all the lens controls are motorized, so you can use them via the remote and set up different lens memories for different video aspect ratios (such as 16:9 for HDTV, or 21:9 for some movies). There are also four adjustable feet on the underside, a full control panel on the top side, and a lens cover that opens and closes automatically.

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