A Cinema in your Very Own Home

With the myriad of TV options from Netflix to cable to Blu-ray, more people are opting to stay home than go to the movies these days. The concept of home theatre cinema is now more prevalent than ever. For cinephiles looking to take the home cinema experience to the next level, factors from the acoustics, the physical space and seats, down to lighting make a huge difference.

Key to the home theatre experience is the quality and size of the viewing screen. The question begs – which is the best option for your home, TV or a home projector, and what are the factors to consider? 

Which is Best – TV or Home Projector?

To get the maximum out of the huge variety of available programming, there are fundamentally two hardware choices – A flat-screen TV or projector.  Both options offer screen sizes that dwarf the typical flickering 27-inch CRT sets of the early TV age. A huge screen, accompanied by a sophisticated stereo sound system, fully justifies the name of “home theatre.”

Key factors that will influence the choice include image quality, flexibility, ease of set-up and maintenance, and of course the total cost of ownership.

The first consideration will be size. Of course, this will be mainly determined by the available space in the user’s home, but it’s likely that you’ll be going for the largest set-up the room will allow. This means taking into account your room configuration. You will need to consider the throw distance, and the projector features that will give you placement flexibility. You’ll also want to see how your set-up can make the optimum use of otherwise dead space in your room.

Let’s now consider the overall visual impression you’re seeking.

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Epson is well known not only for printers, but also for their collection of projectors as well. Their latest effort? The ultra-bright Home Cinema 1450 3LCD projector, which is a Full HD projector that touts to deliver versatile and bright performance when it comes to immersive sports games, streaming as well as video games with family and friends.

The Home Cinema 1450 projector, being an ultra-bright 3LCD projector that is able to offer immersive, Full HD 1080p entertainment, is touted to deliver up to 3x higher color brightness compared to other comparable models in the same market segment — in addition to 4,200 lumens of color brightness as well as 4,200 lumens of white brightness. In other words, you will be able to enjoy immersive, vivid images even in well-lit rooms.

“Bright Epson Home Cinema projectors take relaxing at home with friends to the next level – from watching life-size athletes take on rivals to playing the latest console game,” said Rodrigo Catalan, senior product manager, Projectors, Epson America. “The Home Cinema 1450 delivers an ultra-brilliant image, even in the living room with the lights on. Just plug the Home Cinema 1450 into a streaming or gaming device to transform it into a massive, vivid display for hours of entertainment.”

With your eyeballs being able to enjoy 1080p widescreen performance, offering simultaneous, side-by-side image display from different sources that make for fun and easy content sharing. Apart from that, it also comes with a host of connectivity options, so that viewers are able to enjoy the latest in entertainment together alongside bright, immersive images regardless of any room that you are in.

With the Home Cinema 1450 projector, you will be able to enjoy easy-to-use setup tools alongside a built-in 16 W speaker that ought to work fine by itself without having to have hook it up to a home theater system or speakers. Expect the Home Cinema 1450 to arrive with a recommended retail price of $1,499.

by Edwin

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My good friends know how obsessed I am with projectors – my first model was around the time of the original Xbox release, where it’s 720p resolution looked absolutely incredible blown up to the size of a theatre screen on my wall. It’s also why I do most of my gaming on an Epson TW9200, a 1080p projector that delivers a truly big-screen gaming experience.

So when I heard that Epson was releasing a 4K projector for less than five grand, I was amazed. Until now, only Sony had offered remotely affordable home 4K projectors, and they were in the twenty grand range, just a tad too expensive even for a dedicated enthusiast like me. For Epson to deliver a 4K projector at less than five grand – $15,000 less than its competitors – was simply revolutionary.

Unfortunately it turns out that it’s too good to be true. This projector still only supports a 1080p input, which it then upscales to 4K. JVC pulled this same trick a few years back, so it’s nothing new. You don’t get a native 4K image – it’s simply 1080p with extra pixels added. There is a barely noticeable increase in clarity, but trust me: it’s a long, long way from looking at a native 4K screen.

However, there is another key feature that makes the successor to the TW9200 worthy of your attention – support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting. 4K is so 2014 darling, with HDR being the selling point for most displays right now.

What’s HDR? Well, basically, it uses a much wider colour range to deliver much more accurate colours compared to non-HDR displays. It also offers vastly improved contrast ratios – Epson is claiming this projector has a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

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