Epson - Home Cinema 3800 4K 3LCD Projector with High Dynamic Range - White

For the price-point of this projector, I am extremely happy with it. We upgraded from a 10+ year old Viewsonic 1080p DLP based projector, and the difference it just astounding. While the jump in resolution from 1080p to 4k is good, the real winner is the difference in color and brightness. This thing is an absolute light canon, plenty of brightness to have bright scenes in HDR pop on my 100" screen. Lense flairs, light sabers, etc. look fantastic, and the colors are very rich and vibrant. My old projector looked very flat and dull in comparison. The auto-iris feature is fantastic and is probably my favorite feature. It very quickly adjusts the amount of light coming through the optics to match the scene. This makes dark scenes show good contrast and not look "black crushed" like my old projector did. We watched Pan's Labyrinth as one of the first movies on the new projector and the dark scenes looked incredible. Animated movies look extremely vibrant and colorful as well, we watch a lot of anime with our kids and have been really happy with how they look even though the majority of them only release in regular 1080p blu-ray and do not have HDR. Being able to physically shift the lense up/down/left/right instead of using key stoning correction to make the image project correctly onto the screen results in a much sharper image. This projector still has plenty of key stone options, we just chose to mount this projector lower off the ceiling compared to our last one so we could disable them, and were very happy with the results My last talking point is 3LCD technology versus DLP. DLP projectors in this price range are typically a single wheel. My last projector used this technology, and I constantly saw a rainbow effect on the projected image, especially in dark scenes. Some people are sensitive to this, and some aren't. I have a friend who owns a new BenQ DLP projector and I also see rainbow effects on his, while he doesn't. This problem does not exist on 3LCD projectors. This was a major point for me in purchasing this projector, and not being subject to that constant nagging issue was alone worth upgrading for me. My room has plenty of curtains (including extra ones we put up if we watch movies during the day) but is not a dedicated blackened home theater room. In my semi-light controlled environment I am extremely happy with this unit. It has tons of brightness to spare, while not ideal I could even see inviting people over to watch football during the day with the lights on. This is not something every projector can do, in my opinion this thing is genuinely a light canon. Last thing to note is we have an electric pulldown screen. I was able to buy a cable and hook up the projector so when you turn it on the screen automatically goes up and down. Not having to deal with the electric screen remote is a godsend and very easy to setup. In the past my wife has been too intimidated to use our home theater by herself but since we got this projector she watches movies on her own, and that puts a smile on my face.

Decent black levels. HDR options is excellent. Great black levels on cinegrey 5d screen but limits hdr steps. High gain silver screen I gives great hdr with slight less black levels at the expense of sparkles on bright scenes. Eco mode lamp still looks great. Great pic on low level.

Fabulous unit...Best Buy met the matching sale price on a refurbished one from Epson for a BRAND NEW unit with full warranty. The service rep walked me through signing up for 24 months financing no interest. Couldn't have been a smoother transaction. Unit showed up as promised 3 days later. Bought the mounting bracket for it separately, was in stock.

I said fake 4K projector because it’s not native4k. Putting that on the side, this projector out of the box looks great. Before i got this projector i was in the market for a 75” tv since I been all in on the Dolby Vision since I got my oppo 203 years ago so I hesitate to buy a projector. But I have a dedicated room and I said I will get a projector so I can have a better experience. With the size of the screen (110”) and the quality of the image i don’t miss the Dolby Vision at all. This projector has a good features like: Vertical and horizontal lens shift that it makes the screen adjustment a lot easier. 3000 Lumens so you can get a good image even with the lights on. 3d which is a plus and it looks great, my family enjoy the 3d movies. A lots of options to calibrate the image. One thing I recommend is to use cinema with eco mode not only will save the life of the lamp and you can still have a great quality image but if you go with a higher set up the fan became loud and hot. I don’t notice the fan sound when I’m using the home theater Sound but even listening the movie with my sound I use the cinema and eco mode. Overall it’s a great projector if you don’t want to spend more money on a native 4K. I’m really happy I got this projector even more for the price I paid for it, it was on sale $1299 the price at the moment of this review is $1699 so if you see it on sale get it.

Currently have it projected in my side room on the wall. 120 inch screen connected to an Apple TV. Game days are popular at my house.

Stunning picture quality ! I had originally ordered Epson HC 2150 which was not 4k, I returned it as it as picture was getting washed due to lot of ambient light I get in my living room. I am projecting this from approx. 12 feet distance and the lens shift function allows me a flexible placement of the projector on side of my sofa and it still does get centered nicely on the wall in front. Picture quality out-of-box is great without any tweaks. This has 2 speakers which are loud enough , however I use my existing home theater receiver for sound. Bright Cinema preset looks great for my room, make sure you set the HDR controls to adaptive mode on your source. The remote control is big with lots of options easily accessible so you don't have to scroll through the menu and with ARC enabled you can even control your HDMI input devices, in my case its Amazon 4k Fire stick connected via Home theater ARC port.

Fantastic upgrade for our home theater. External light sources have no impact on the brightness of the screen.

This is my 3rd projector for a dedicated movie room in my basement. Room size is 35ft x 19ft wide with no ambient light. I had Best Buy geek squad install the projector and Klipsch Reference speakers. The install team was AWESOME! Sound is incredible and the picture is unbelievable! The projector is whisper quiet and the picture in all hd modes is stunning. Crystal clear and dark levels seem to hold true unlike my previous projector's. I'm a researcher and I'm telling you 100% you will not be disappointed. Tell your wife stop complaining about the price because it's an investment for her and here's why, I can have the worst day and be in a bad mood and when I go downstairs to watch a show or a movie I come back upstairs with nothing but smile's.