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Epson Home Cinema 2100 1080p 3LCD Projector - Refurbished $399
Includes 2-Year Limited Warranty
Epson Certified Refurbished
Wondering if this is a good deal?
https://epson.com/Clearance-Cente...1H851020-N
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Contrast Ratios are always implied and will vary dramatically depending on how dark your room gets and how reflective everything is inside of that room. Light Control *is a must*. You also generally want a screen, projecting on a standard house wall with flat or semi-gloss paint will not be ideal but, you know, its functional. You can get a cheap grey screen (material only, sold cheap in various sizes on ebay) and give that a go, I'd recommend a greyish screen to help enhance the blacks that may get a little washed out on these inexpensive LCD based projectors.
Having said that, $400 for a 1080p projector is amazing, thats what replacement bulbs used to cost.
Optoma is a well known, established brand name. Look at each model and make sure you get one designed for home theater use (better image quality, punchy colors and black levels) versus industrial/classroom models (those tend to be brighter, while sacrificing contrast ratio and color accuracy).
The one thing you want to avoid with projectors is turning them on and off like TV's. Bulbs generally fail when you spark them, particularly when you do it if they are still warm. A good habit with PJ's is to turn them on and just leave them on, I routinely turn mine on for 10+ hour stretches, rather than turn it on/off, on/off several times a day....I've never blown a bulb (4 projectors over a decade)...they just get dim or start to flicker when they reach their end of life (2000-5000 hours in my case) and then you replace them.
or you get a new $400 projector depending on how often you use yours.
Also worth mentioning: 4K is not native on most projectors under $5000 and you can forget "real HDR" on any projector, even the $5000+ ones...1080p even at 120" is *FINE* for gaming/movie watching, 4K is of course better..even simulated...but you're not getting that for $500 yet.
HDR requires intense light output in specific regions of the panel and Projectors do not really operate like that, so even PJ's that cost $10k, $15k have dubious HDR light output numbers so just go in with your eyes open if you see HDR on any PJ and you're expecting the image to make you wince on bright scenes like a back-panel-lit LED or OLED might.
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I am looking for a manual pull down one.
I purchased a vankyo and returned it after 2 weeks for the epson 2150 about 2 months ago. I paid full price for the epson and I'm still glad I traded up. The corners of the vankyo get blurry especially when you blow up the screen size. The customer service was great but image quality was mediocre. Honestly I would buy the vankyo to travel with, but it's not full-time home theater quality. I'm incredibly happy with the 2150.
I had almost the exact same experience. Replaced a cheaper Amazon one with the 2150. It's surprisingly bright in a light room.
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No go during the day.
Well yeah... Duh
newb here
Got an Epson with 3100 lumens and it's too bright in a room with open windows and overhead lights turned on. Now the "3100 lumen" off-brand projectors, good luck!
Fan noise is unacceptable, even in eco mode.
I got the "silver ticket" 100" screen, and while it looks 'good', don't kid yourself in comparing it to an actual LED display.
Running long cables was annoying, and I regret running them through the walls now since I took it down.
1080p vs 4k...and really the '1080p' is only achieved in ideal conditions late at night.
100% required sound system. You will need to invest $400 more to get sound with projection. While TV sound isn't good, at least you can run the TV by itself with some 'ok' sound.
And for the only benefit of....
Having a 100" screen. Yea it was nice, but all these downsides led me to simply replacing it with a 75" 4k Samsung TV for $800. It just looks, feels, and plays so much better than my projector. I wish I didn't spend all that time measuring, calculating, and building a room when a TV just performs and looks significantly better. When you look at the cost of everything, it's basically a break even, and you save yourself a headache with just getting a TV.
My 2 cents.
Fan noise is unacceptable, even in eco mode.
I got the "silver ticket" 100" screen, and while it looks 'good', don't kid yourself in comparing it to an actual LED display.
Running long cables was annoying, and I regret running them through the walls now since I took it down.
1080p vs 4k...and really the '1080p' is only achieved in ideal conditions late at night.
100% required sound system. You will need to invest $400 more to get sound with projection. While TV sound isn't good, at least you can run the TV by itself with some 'ok' sound.
And for the only benefit of....
Having a 100" screen. Yea it was nice, but all these downsides led me to simply replacing it with a 75" 4k Samsung TV for $800. It just looks, feels, and plays so much better than my projector. I wish I didn't spend all that time measuring, calculating, and building a room when a TV just performs and looks significantly better. When you look at the cost of everything, it's basically a break even, and you save yourself a headache with just getting a TV.
My 2 cents.
I have no more eye strain and less headaches since I'm watching a projector for a large portion of the day instead of a TV. You can come out of bed bleary-eyed and an avengers movie wouldn't make you squint.
That's by far my favorite part about having projector. If your unbelievably critical of an image picture, you should definitely stick with TVs. It's clear that's what you prefer. I don't hear my projector at all, so I guess I'm just lucky. I did buy a sound system, but are you telling me that your TV's didn't need a sound system? for someone who care so much about image quality, its hard to believe you would be happy with the TV speakers that are almost universally subpar.
while we're talking about image quality, I feel like my 1080p Epson 2150 image is very sharp.
These Epson projectors are awesome
The soft lighting and 120 in screen is what I prefer.Not to mention it's only $49 to replace a bulb every two years.
Optoma UHD60 = $1690
Optoma UHD50 = $1240
For $2800 you can get VAVA 4K, which is a laser projector with 4096x2160 native resolution.
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I also manage some vacation rental cabins in Pigeon Forge. In one of the cabins I have a theater room and I installed a 2100 there as well. This cabin also has a small pool in it. Since chemicals and humidity are going to be around a pool I went with a cheaper 1060 model in the pool room. In another rental cabin I have had a 1060 in a pool room for about 2 years now running just fine.
Now I will say I have had to replace one of the 1060s twice that was in the same location in the pool room at the first cabin I mentioned. There was some major humidity and chemical issues for several months while the builder got some things straightened out. Epson is fantastic on honoring their warranty. They have no problem sending out a replacement unit under warranty.
You can check out picture of the setup at peacefulcabinrentals.com [peacefulcabinrentals.com]
Cinematic Splash has the 2100 in the theater room and the 1060 in the pool room. Then A Pearl's Splash has the 1060 in the pool room. The image on the projector screen in A Pearl's Splash was photoshopped by the photographer. The pictures for Cinematic Splash were not photoshopped but the camera pics don't do them justice. The video from the projector looks great and all my guests love it.