We got a close-up look at the Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080 UB projector we scooped for you the other day, the cheapest 1080p projector in the world at an unofficial $2699 (but that might not be the exact number, according to Epson). Epson added a new chipset that raised its native (not dynamic) contrast ratio to 5000:1. We got an eyes-on demo, and liked what we saw. And check out that wild-ass attachment hanging on its front.
https://gizmodo.com/epson-to-ship-lowest-priced-1080p-projector-yet-296236
The blacks were even blacker than the Epson Powerlite that we already really liked, and the sharpness of this projector at its full 1080p was remarkable.
https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-epson-powerlite-home-cinema-1080-how-much-254973
Making matters even more interesting was the $5000 anamorphic lens attached to this baby (see gallery), stretching the video out to a positively cinematic 2.35:1 aspect ratio. To get it there, you must have special squished anamorphic content, and to really do it right, you need the Silicon Optics external video processor (for another $3K), stretching everything out cleanly with no distortion.
Yikes, that’s a total price of over $10K, but who said getting a picture that’s better than your local cineplex was going to be cheap? Still, it’s the lowest price for a setup like this we’ve seen, and worth it.
