I’ve used this projector under various conditions using various sources, and overall it’s proven to be a fairly reliable device. Picture quality is superb, audio, however, sounds a little small and “tinny”. Once I split the audio off to a 3W portable speaker, it was perfect.
Now, for sources... First was a Samsung notebook 9 at my office. In a fairly lit office conference room on a standard pullscreen, graphs were sharp, colors rich, and fan noise was minimum. Audio sounded hollow, and could barely be heard over typical meetingroom chatter. Picture slides looked amazing, right out of the box.
If your work environment is quiet during multimedia presentations, this is a great projector for the money.
Next source was an AppleTV at my home. While this is a business projector not a movie projector, I wanted to put it through every kind of test a geek could think of. Against a white wall, watching a digital copy of starwars, colors were again rich, details were sharp, but black levels aren’t as deep as a true home theater projector, however, for a small business owner that might want to take the projector home on a weekend to play a movie for the kids, it can do a decent enough job, if attached to a decent audio system.
Final source, a gaming pc. I know a lot of people might think multimedia = gaming, so I decided to try the projector on that, as well. Booting up Guild Wars 2, it looked really good. Better, in my opinion, than the movie, but not as sharp as the regular “boring” work graphs.
Overall, if you want a great business machine that you can also sneak out of the office on weekends, I highly recommend the Epson vs355. It’s a quiet workhorse that will make your business presentations shine and be fun during weekend family events as well.
Attached are some home pics of the machine doing it’s thing (sorry no work pics, but camera pics at work are a no-no).