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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema Projector 1080 UB Review:

The Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 UB sets new standards in color and picture quality. Now you can create a true Full HD home cinema in your own home and live the HD TV, HD DVD and Blue Ray experience on a giant screen. Note that in South Africa these Epson projectors are known as TW2800, TW3000, TW3800, TW5000 etc.

Overview

1080p resolution for ultimate Full HD projection clarity
UltraBlack™ technology for the deepest blacks
50,000:1 contrast ratio (dynamic setting)
C²Fine™ 3LCD (3-chip optical engine) technology
1600 lumens for incredible brightness
Extended color gamut
1080P Perfect™ video processing
Two HDMI 1.3 ports
OptiCinema™ lens for superior image quality
E-TORL™ lamp for greater color uniformity
24 dB operation

Product Overview and Observations

The Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080UB offers the ultimate way to experience larger-than-life movies, sporting events and video games with cutting-edge, true 1080p native resolution, the industry’s best high definition signal to date. By implementing a full suite of state-of-the-art technologies within a single projector, Epson provides a total solution that is sure to exceed your expectations.

The Cinema 1080 UB is a relatively small home theater projector. Fan exhaust is out the front left corner as you face the unit. The design makes it particularly convenient for mounting on a rear shelf.

A key advantage is that the Cinema 1080 UB is a very bright projector, and that it has a range of brightness options so you can adopt it to your particular room, screen size, and intended use. It is rated at 1600 ANSI lumens, and believe it or not, in its brightest operating mode ("Vivid") we measured exactly 1600 ANSI lumens, with the lens set to its widest angle configuration.

The Vivid operating mode is fine for a Rugby party, but as usual you trade color accuracy for extra brightness. If you want better color, opt for Cinema Day or Cinema Night modes. Cinema Day produces a whopping 800 lumens, and Cinema Night delivers a still very bright 470 lumens.

The Cinema 1080 UB has a long zoom range, 2.1:1. The good news is that it gives you great flexibility in throw distance for any desired screen size-you can light up a 120" diagonal screen by placing the projector anywhere from 12 to 25 feet from the screen. The bad news is that when you move it to maximum telephoto, you sacrifice about 45% of the projector's maximum light output. For example, Vivid drops from 1600 to 870 lumens just by shifting the lens from wide angle to telephoto. That's not unusual for a 2x zoom lens, but it means that installation of the projector must be done with consideration for the screen size and operating mode that is anticipated. If you are going to be operating in Cinema Night mode, the use of the extreme telephoto end of the zoom will drop light output from 470 to about 260 lumens. That in turn would limit the screen size you'd want to go with, and/or it may argue for the use of a higher gain screen.

Without a doubt the most sensation specification on the Cinema 1080 UB is the 50,000:1 contrast ratio-at this writing, this is the highest contrast ratio claimed for any home theater projector on the market. This is achieved with the action of an auto iris, which changes from scene to scene-in a bright scene the iris opens to boost highlights, and in a dark scene it closes to achieve deeper blacks. The native contrast spec on this unit is 4,000:1, which is the contrast range it can achieve within any given image frame.

As far as fan noise is concerned, which is quite important during use, in the less bright operating modes like Cinema Night, there is very little. But setting the unit in Cinema Day not only boosts light output substantially, but it raises the fan noise to a noticeable level.

Additional Epson Projectors:

EB-G5000 EB-G5100 EB-G5150, EB-G5200W EB-G5300 EB-G5350, EMP-1700 EMP-1705 EMP-1710, EMP-1715 EMP-1810 EMP-1815, EMP-1825 EMP-400W EMP-400We, EMP-6010 EMP-6100 EMP-6100HS, EMP-6110 EMP-760 EMP-765, EMP-7900 EMP-7900NL EMP-7950, EMP-82 EMP-822 EMP-828, EMP-83 EMP-8300 EMP-83e, EMP-DM1 EMP-DM1S EMP-S3, EMP-S5 EMP-S52 EMP-TW1000, EMP-TW20 EMP-TW600 EMP-TW680, EMP-TW700 EMP-TW980 EMP-TWD10, EMP-TWD10S EMP-TWD3 EMP-X3, EMP-X5 EMP-X52 EX90, MovieMate 50 MovieMate 72 PowerLite 1700c, PowerLite 1705c PowerLite 1710c PowerLite 1715c, PowerLite 1720 PowerLite 1725 PowerLite 1730W, PowerLite 1735W PowerLite 1810p PowerLite 1815p, PowerLite 1825 PowerLite 400W PowerLite 6100i, PowerLite 6110i PowerLite 77c PowerLite 78c, PowerLite 7900NL PowerLite 822+ PowerLite 822p, PowerLite 83+ PowerLite 8300NL PowerLite 83c, PowerLite Cinema 400, PowerLite Home Cinema 1080, PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 UB, PowerLite Home Cinema 400, PowerLite Home Cinema 720, PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080, PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 UB, PowerLite Pro Cinema 800, PowerLite Pro Cinema 810, PowerLite Pro Cinema 810 HQ,V PowerLite Pro G5150NL, PowerLite Pro G5200WNL, PowerLite Pro G5350NL, PowerLite S5, PowerLite S6, PowerLite W6, VD EHDM2, EH-TW420, EMP-TW680, EMP-TW700, EH-TW2800, EH-TW3000, EH-TW3800, EH-TW5000

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