Customers have good things to say about the Home Cinema 980 3LCD 1080p Projector's brightness and picture quality, with many praising its performance even in brightly lit rooms. The ease of setup and relatively quiet fan operation are also frequently highlighted as positive aspects. However, some users find the connectivity options limited and the menu system not very intuitive. Improvements to the menu design and connectivity features would enhance the user experience.
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Pros mentioned:
Brightness, Ease of use, Picture quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great picture/output. Versatile. Easy.
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To briefly sum up my thoughts, I think this is quality projector. Overall, it does everything well, is easy to setup and use, is versatile, and provides a great picture, which honestly is most important to me.
Build and style, on some level, are about what you would expect. White. A fair amount of plastic. Again, normal, standard projector stuff. That said, it is all put together well, feels solid, and is nicely compact. I don’t really see me moving it around much, but it will be easy, if need be, in the future.
Setup, both physically and on the software side, is quite easy and quick. Common adjustment options are there and easy to implement. Both for screen setup and picture quality. There is also some built-in auto help that makes it even more pain free. The entire process of getting content running was faster than I was expecting, and I was impressed with connectivity. It has been some time since I used a projector, but having a USB for content and/or streaming and two HDMI ports is some nice versatility I was not necessarily expecting. I can have some dedicated slots filled and possibly another for an occasional laptop hookup. Additionally, while I am still getting my audio solution figured out, it is nice there is an internal speaker on the unit itself. It at least gives me something in the meantime.
Once up and running, everything looked very good. Frankly, better than I was expecting. While I only quickly messed around with some games, they not only looked good but also performed better than I thought they would going in. That said, I was really impressed with how TV and movie content presented. The image was clear, crispy, and vibrant. Colors popped and were quite accurate and the several color modes each showed a nice level of variability. I think the aspects that most stuck out to me were the brightness and the richness of the image quality. All in all, I am very pleased with what I am seeing.
Furthermore, in the end, I am pleased with this projector as a whole. Pretty much, full stop. It is built well, comes from a respected name in the space, is very simple to set up as well as use, has solid connectivity, and, again, most importantly to me, outputs great image quality. As always, check your use case, but it does well with all content, and I think for all that you get the value is there.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Brightness, Fan noise
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent home projector, but needs decent audio
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My previous experience with home projectors is with a very entry-level 480p model. This is Epson is mostly a vast improvement over that experience.
I found both resolution and brightness to be excellent for my home. At a 13-foot distance, it's more than bright enough against a white wall, and I didn't feel the need to bother setting up my pop-up screen. Even during mid-morning sun entering through the blinds, the image was impressively bright, and this is true even when using the reduced brightness ECO mode. In a darkened room, as one should expect, this projector does a great job.
At the lowest zoom setting from a 13-foot distance, it threw up a roughly 7-foot wide live area.
Fan noise in ECO is low enough that it disappeared into the background.
The lens is aimed upwards, and the feet don't offer much adjustability, so I found that positioning the projector at any height above five feet became unwieldy, requiring several inches of risers under the rear feet. I eventually plan to place the projector atop a bookshelf in a "ceiling mount" position, which requires setting the projector upside down. In that orientation, the lens will be aiming downward.
My only minor complaint is in regards to the sound. There's no low end to speak of, and it's wholly inadequate for anything but presentations with spoken word. For movies or TV shows, it really needs to be paired with an audio system. (I used an audio receiver passing through a Google TV Streamer to the HDMI port.)