Customer Ratings & Reviews

Extremely noisy, very thin image quality. Unbeliveable ripoff. You can't bypass the google setup whoch tracks the room you are in. You pay a thousand bucks and they steal your personal data through this piece of crap.

The Epson - Lifestudio Flex Plus 4K Pro-UHD Portable Lifestyle Smart Projector with Sound by Bose Technology is a high quality 3LCD, HDR, wireless projector that fits in any environment and looks like a piece of fine furniture. It is easy to setup and includes a wireless remote. It runs Google TV OS and has all of the major apps available. I setup the projector on my back screened in porch. I have a 100 inch screen and the projector completely filled the screen from corner to corner from a distance of about 8-10 feet. I used the projector at night and during late afternoon hours. At night, the picture is brilliant, bright and colorful and rivals the experience of a 4K tv in addition to being much more immersive because of its 100 inch size. In late afternoon, the picture is still very good but lacks some of the punch provided st night. The sound is surprisingly good using the Bose Technology. I highly recommend the Lifestudio Flex Plus 4K Pro. It is stylistic, easy to use, and has a picture quality that rivals more expensive projectors.

The Epson Flex Plus projector is a good looking projector, very stylish. The built in stand lets you just plop it down, point it at something and start projecting, sounds great! So in the spirit of the pictures and text on the box, I just pulled this guy out, set it down, turned it on and I was ready to watch some cool stuff…. The automatic picture shape and focus functions are nifty, and it’s nice the unit can adjust on the fly. The stand also allows you to flip the projector up to the ceiling and watch overhead, which is a nice feature. When moving the unit to get the picture bigger, it does its best to make the image square and level. Focus is not quite as accurate as I would have liked as I tried out different positions and walls, I needed to adjust the focus one or two clicks in a couple of spots, but it otherwise was trouble free. This is a great feature suited well to its portable nature. There is a nice ring of LED lights that shine out from under the Flex Plus’ body. You can adjust them easily with the touch sensitivity around the Epson logo on the top of the unit. These lights are great when the room is super dark to find your way around, I turn them off when watching so they don’t compete with the content. Don’t have or want a google account? Don't bother. The projector is non functional until you sign in. The HMDI and USB inputs do not work without you first signing in or signing up. The box should just say Google rather than Epson. You will be held captive to updates before you can do anything with this unit. It is rather disappointing that Epson has abandoned it’s customers to the whims of another company. The forced GoogleTV integration means this box will become trash if (when) Google decides to stop support for this setup. The fan noise is entirely too loud for a little thing like this. The fan itself is cheap sounding, quite reminiscent of filmstrip projectors in the 80’s. This would be less of an issue if it were cooling a blazing sun of a projector... The picture is not particularly bright. It’s not suited for viewing in daylight unless you have some blackout shades. 4K content looks nice, not as good as my TV, but good enough for the purposes of this unit. There is 1000 lumens of brightness available according to the specs. If you’re buying a screen for this projector, make sure it’s a reflective one, if it’s just one of the lightweight screens too much light goes through and you’ll want to cherish every scarce photon with the limited output here. One of the differentiating features of the Flex Plus that makes it Plus is the USB-C port in the back that promises outlet free enjoyment. The manual states that if you use that port, it can only accept 100 watts of power and the picture will be dimmed. The AC transformer it usually runs on is 180 watts. The sound is good, if you turn it up too much the system starts ducking to prevent clipping. It’s impressive how much sound comes out of this little box’s speakers. One of the issues here is that Bose engineered sound is competing against the bottom-of-the-barrel fan. Outdoors, the Flex Plus’ ability to connect to an external with bluetooth or the 3.5mm jack will be very helpful. The remote feels generic and cheap, with none of the pleasant styling of the unit itself. It connects via bluetooth quickly. It works. You do not have to have the remote paired for it to work as a standard IR remote. Overall, I would say styling of something that you aren’t looking at while it’s working isn’t a good reason to compromise on the actual functions of the unit. If it was significantly brighter, or if it ran off power for a couple of hours at full tilt, or if the fan wasn’t so prominent, the value proposition of the Epson would be better. I do not recommend this projector.