Epson Home Cinema 5050UB 4K PRO-UHD 3-Chip Projector with HDR,White

I was surprised how much larger this was than my Mitsubishi HC – 4900, which had been a trusty steed for over 15 years in my theater. My ceiling mount was not large enough and probably was not strong enough so I ordered the PCMD Mount designed for this unit. It is currently sitting on a bookcase in my theater directly under where it will be ceiling mounted.I unpacked it, connected the power and HDMI cable coming from my Roku box via a receiver, turned it on. All I had to do was adjust the focus and zoom and I was watching breathtaking new detail and brightness in my theater. I guess this has incredible capabilities to fine-tune every little detail but I'm more of a turn on and enjoy guy.It's only been about two weeks but what used to be a place that we occasionally went to watch a movie is now about the only place we go to watch TV. Amazingly it looks as good as our one-year-old 65 inch Samsung in the living room.If it holds up half as long as the Mitsubishi I will be happy. For the first time I am searching for 4K content and if you get this definitely check out some of the planet earth stuff at 4K, absolutely incredible. And this was a pretty big splurge for me!

If you can get past the price of how astronomically much this costs which seems like a total scam at first, this actually is the best prosumer option for you. It’s rated highest by all the people in all the leading reviewers. This is my second Epson now. The main reason I get this is because of the quality and versatility. I have an offset layout of my house where I can mount the projector and typically you have to have something dead in line with the screen. This one has enough features to where is can adjust the image in all directions and the zoom/sides, too, which is important to size the screen borders correctly. The focus is super precise and is motorized so you don’t have to literally do it on a ladder and there’s a lens lock feature on the remote so you can’t accidentally change an otherwise pretty set picture totally mess it up without some effort. The best thing is that even if you do manage to lose or somehow break this lighted remote, there is a very small amount of controls hidden behind an easily accessible little door, plus the replacement remotes are readily found online for $75 or less. and The brightness of this newer model projector is only about 100-200 lumens which doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s actually really noticeable. I was surprised. I can comfortably watch it during the day with the blinds semi-closed and one window completely uncovered where before the picture was much dimmer. The picture is awesome since even though it is native 1080x1024 WUXA, it has this upscaling feature that does something with the pixels to change the resolution to 4K. This is a super quiet unit and the edge to edge focus on this is pretty much perfect. It’s got amazing contrast like it says and astounding brilliant color. There’s high speed processing of the images with no lag either. It’s like a magical box that costs $3,000.... yes, the older 5040UB is $1,000 less so you could easily get that one but I would say the detail compared to the 5040UB and this one is fairly noticeable and the light output is definitely noticeable. The lamps don’t last forever but I am a heavy tv and movie watcher and I haven’t even made a small dent in mine so far. It will last forever. 3 words of caution: this thing is more heavy than most machines out there but it’s also better. With that heaviness comes the fact that it’s a little bulky, too. The last thing is that to make sure you get the extended warranty you should do with all major electronics anyway (and keep track of when they expire). It’s well worth it and can make a difference. I had to have one replaced before and it was a godsend. All in all it’s a good buy if you are willing to shell out that much cash. It’s one of the best out there. There are some probably a little better, sure, but they also lack what this one has with the features. Not everyone has a dedicated theater room in their house. I don’t. You have to be practical.

It would have been nice if Epson had included an HDMI out for audio. I love the picture. I recently bought a 50' 8K HDMI cable for it but the unit fails to see the image. I connected the same cable to laptop with led screen on other end and works fine. I then feed the output from a RX685 Yamaha receiver to the LED monitor over the same 50' HDMI cable and that fails to work so the Yamaha seems deficient in signal strength for long HDMI cables. I had to put my video source directly to the Epson with an HDMI splitter to send the audio back to the receiver input.My big surprise is the cost of this unit. I bought mine in 2020 and it is a little more expensive now!

The media could not be loaded. After trying a cheaper projector that died a couple months in, I went the other way and invested in this Epson. Audio is not there, so you also have to get an AV receiver and speaker system (but not Bluetooth compatible). I tried to setup myself and realized a professional was needed.Within a month the picture was flashing and I was frustrated again.Epson was quick to diagnose that it was their product over the phone and replaced it right away. That response and support made it all worth it. 10 months later I still have the amazing picture and quality and I am not worried, with Epson’s support backing it up.Definitely worth the investment.

At this point you either buy a pixel shift 2k projector like this or buy a real 4K projector for way too much money and a lot of compromise. I think it makes more sense to buy this. I have never had an instance where the picture quality was limited by pixels and I sit about 10 feet from a 130" screen.The picture quality is really good and the lens shift makes mounting it really easy if this is your first projector. I had never mounted a projector before and as long as this is square to the projection screen and in the general area of where the center of the screen is your good to go. It would actually be a challenge to mount this is most rooms and not be able to lens shift it perfectly onto the screen.Definitely should be limited to home theater use though, if your spending a ton of money on a screen to deal with ambient light there's way better options. In a dark room with curtains this thing is outstanding.