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Epson Home Cinema 2100 1080p 3LCD Projector - Refurbished $399

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Home Cinema 660 3LCD Projector - Refurbished $289
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Home Cinema 2150 Wireless 1080p 3LCD Projector - Refurbished $499
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PowerLite Pro Cinema 4030 2D/3D 1080p 3LCD Projector - Refurbished $825
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PowerLite Home Cinema 5040UB 3LCD Projector with 4K Enhancement and HDR - Refurbished $1149
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Long time projector owner here, will pass along some advice in general:

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.
2150 has been great for me for 2 years. 100 inches on a white wall. Will never go back to TV again
Note:Epson does not accept returns on refurbished items except if product arrives defective, in which case, we will provide a replacement with the same model or equivalent. This unit may not include the same software or paper pack as new models

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03-29-2020 at 10:00 PM.
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Any suggestion for a 120" screen?
I am looking for a manual pull down one.
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03-29-2020 at 10:05 PM.
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Picked up a 5040 last sale. It's a monster but holy crud the picture is amazing. Colors are night and day better than my prior panasonic.
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03-29-2020 at 10:17 PM.
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The 5040 is OOS
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03-29-2020 at 10:40 PM.
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Any of these short throws?
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03-29-2020 at 10:51 PM.
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newbie in the projector and home theater set up. so please be gentle on me.. question is, I am seeing a lot of good reviews about vankyo full hd projectors in amazon and it comes almost 3/4 of this price for new ones and covered by warranty. do you guys think that those are better than the epson refurbished ones?

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.
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03-29-2020 at 10:54 PM.
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I bought this projector brand new two months ago. It's great. I replaced a cheap Chinese one I bought form Amazon for $200 and its night and day. It was worth it for $500 brand new..I almost purchased a refurb, but I saw the fine print and Epson would not take it back. I was more concerned with how it fit in my existing room. Works great. With the old projector- I needed to make the entire house dark. With the 2100- Lights are on in the other rooms- Shades are open and it looks terrific.

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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In for a 2100. First projector of my life. Thanks.
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03-30-2020 at 12:31 AM.
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Great at night.

No go during the day.

Well yeah... Duh
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03-30-2020 at 03:03 AM.
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Looking for an outdoors set up for movies. Which would be the best option? Any functional during the day or not really an option? total between
newb here
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2150 has been great for me for 2 years. 100 inches on a white wall. Will never go back to TV again
I've only had my 2150 for 6 months but it's the same. I only watch TV in the kitchen for the news. Everything else is on this; 142" on a home built screen. I'm looking forward to taking it down a few times this summer and having movie night outside (put the screen on the garage door). Hopefully by summer we aren't quarantined still and all the neighborhood kids can come over and sit in the grass and watch with us. I'm super happy with it.
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03-30-2020 at 04:45 AM.
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For outdoors at night? 3100 lumens is barely passable in a well lit room much less outdoors during the daytime.

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!
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03-30-2020 at 05:09 AM.
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Quote from CaliforniaNavel :
2150 has been great for me for 2 years. 100 inches on a white wall. Will never go back to TV again
Complete opposite for me. I've have the 2150 for two years, and since, I've moved it out of my main viewing room and rarely use it. Not my first projector, but compared to the 4k TVs now...it's just not worth it.

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.
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03-30-2020 at 05:30 AM.
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Quote from brap :
Complete opposite for me. I've have the 2150 for two years, and since, I've moved it out of my main viewing room and rarely use it. Not my first projector, but compared to the 4k TVs now...it's just not worth it.

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.
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03-30-2020 at 06:23 AM.
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Also worth mentioning: 4K is not native on most projectors under $5000
That's just not true. There are tons of 4K (UHD) native projectors even under $3000. And some are even much cheaper than that:
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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03-30-2020 at 07:44 AM.
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So I have had a 2100 for about 4.5 years at my house and it still runs great. I turn it on and off when I use unlike what a previous poster mentioned about leaving it run for 10+ hours. I have also never blown a bulb and the original bulb is still in it.

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.
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