Epson Home Cinema LS11000 4K PRO-UHD Laser Projector, HDR, HDR10+, 2,500 Lumens Color & White Brightness, HDMI 2.1, Motorized Lens, Lens Shift, Focus, Zoom, 3840 x 2160, 120 Hz, Home Theater, Gaming

This is a very bright projector that works perfectly in my mostly light controlled mini home theater. The LS11000 is replacing a Be Q HT3550 that, while it looked great and had decent black levels, was plagued with constant HDMI handshake issues, WCG filter getting jammed and other assorted fun. So far, no issues like this with the Epson and it looks sharper and much brighter. The whole projector is an absolute beast although the more than doubled weight actually seems to help it from jiggling when the kids are upstairs overhead apparently. The black levels are not amazing, though the dynamic and cinema modes look great and will definitely work for me. I was going to get the 5050UB but, after testing an LG HU810PW (with atrociously bad black levels and light bleed) the nearly instant on/off and not having to replace bulbs in a laser-based projector got good to me. I bought the 3 year ASURION warranty from Amazon and sure hoping this beast lasts well beyond that for the cost. So far so good!**Wanted to add that I am still using my same 35lb QualGear mount (That I started with a BenQ HT2050A, moved to BenQ HT3550 later) for the Epson LS11000. I was skeptical at first, but this mount feels more solid on the Epson and even more stable/less prone to wobbling when someone walks overhead (I'm guessing the light weight of my first two projectors were at fault for this and not the mount). Anyhow, highly recommend this ceiling mount if you don't want to spend a few hundred dollars on the Epson one!

I have now owned all three projectors used with a 150 inch screen. I started out with the Viewsonic DLP 4k projector for around $900. The daytime scenes were bright and sharp but the dark scenes were terrible. almost unwatchable as people's faces were so dark i couldn't see their facial expressions. I found myself constantly changing the settings so i could see the dark scenes only to undo it as soon as a bright scene came on as the brightness would wash out the picture. Then i started seeing the rainbow affect so i knew i had to move to an lcd projector. I purchased the Epson 3800 for $1700. As soon as i tuned on the first movie i could immediately see the difference. The Viewsonic was shipped back the next day. I liked the picture from the 3800 but saw one big problem. the dark scenes were dark and the faces were still too dark. when i adjusted the hdr settings, the bright scenes were once again washed out. It was much better than the Viewsonic's picture, but i was still messing with the settings for every movie while i was watching the movie. my wife would yell at me to quit so she could watch the movie. i didnt want to spend the money but i wanted to see what the 5050ub could do. Most of the reviews had it rated as one of the best projectors for the money. I ordered the projector and when it arrived, i told my wife it would probably go back to amazon because the 3800 had such a good bright picture. After comparing projectors my wife came in and started watching. i switched out the projectors a few times with her watching and she immediately said, i like this picture much better. i said, that's the new projector and it's 1k more. she said, i don't care, the picture is worth it. so i kept the 5050ub and sent the 3800 back. Is the 5050ub much better than the 3800? yes, the contrast is NOTICABLY better. no more washed out picture... ever. I convinced myself i was happy... except on a 150 inch screen, sitting 12ft away i could see the pixels. so then i see that epson has a new projector that shifts the pixels 4 times instead of 2. I decide to take the pepsi challenge and try this projector out. After waiting 3 weeks i finally get it in. Once again i told my wife that we'd probably keep the 5050ub because i was so happy with the picture and a lot of the reviews had the 5050ub with better contrast levels than the ls11000. My wife was ok with this as she didn't want to spend 4k on a projector. Actually she didn't want to spend the 3k on the 5050 so i think she was hoping this projector went back to amazon at the end of the weekend. I turned on the projector (plugged in to apple tv) and immediately i could see that the colors were much deeper with less white shinning through. this was just looking at the menu, i hadn't even started a movie yet. However, once I started watching a movie I was very disappointed. The picture was not as good as the 5050ub's picture. I switched back and forth about 20 times in different movies but the picture was always better on the 5050ub. I was just about to package the ls11000 to send back when i thought, i wonder if the apple settings were messed up. i checked the apple settings and saw that the chroma settings where not at the highest level. I changed the chroma settings to the highest settings and started boxing the 5050ub. the picture was like looking at a 150 inch 4k TV. The colors were incredible. Nothing is washed out. I cant see the pixels from the couch. the blacks are insanely black. I watched the series Wednesday on Netflix with my daughter and it was like watching a monster HDTV. Also, i do not have a sound system. which is a huge problem with the 5050ub. You need a sound system because there is no aux output, no fiber output and no ARC. I had to use bluetooth from the apple tv which made the lips out of sync. The LS11000 has ARC/EARC. I plug the 2nd hdmi cable into my sound bar and get dolby atmos audio. this is a huge deal if you don't want to spend the money on a big audio system.So is the ls11000 the best projector? yes, it has the best picture and it has ARC inputs. is it worth the extra 1k over the 5050ub? i would say that depends on your screen size, how close you sit to the screen and if you have an audio system. The bigger screen size will definitely appreciate the extra pixels and if you dont have a large audio system, the ARC/EARC on the projector would definitely be a must have to connect to a speaker bar. but at the end of the day one thing still remains. Garbage in is garbage out. If you source video is bad, the 11000 will amplify that more than the 5050 will. if you have access to 4k material, you will see a great picture, but watching old material sometimes looked better on the 5050.

First off...for those to whom it matters...the one question I didn't ask before I ordered this (& thank Heavens I did order it because you can't find them anywhere now...but I'm sure they'll be available soon..hang in there) was whether it would handle 3D processing...It does not...which could well be a dealbreaker for some!Other than that...It is miles and miles above the last two Epson 4K projectors in their model line up. It handles HDR10+ like a pro & the picture up there on the screen is astonishingly detailed, bright with color & equally adept at deep dark blacks. The Laser array increases brightness & detail. With Epson's shift glass plate technology you get 4K at 3840 x 2160...and with proper equipment all of it at a 120 Hz refresh rate. I cannot overstate how much detail and color saturation there is in the picture it produces.This is real 4K HDR processing and it shows. For another $1000 there is a pro version of this line with the only difference being almost double the contrast ratio...but the picture I'm seeing at this unit's astounding 1,200,000:1 ratio is absolutely without comparison in my experience.Those are the main pros & there are several more...but be aware the one thing this unit doesn't have going for it is the same picture quality when there is too much ambient light. Highly recommend the olddarkened theater for optimum viewing. Of course that's up to the individual perception of the viewer themself...and therefore something that may or may not be a problem for you.She Who Must Be Obeyed insists I repeat that a lot of light washes out that great picture. She thinks that might be important to some people & especially gamers which I am not.The bottom line for me is that Epson got an imcomparable 4K picture up there on that screen for less than Five Thousand smackeroos...and even though I hesitated at that Four Thousand dollar price tag I'm now really really glad I bought it!...also the laser array is rated at 20,000 hours as opposed to the old bulbrating of 5,000 hours so that's comforting cosidering the price of bulbs.I am not usually a first generation buyer of any product but when you get to our age the more detail on that screen the better the old eyes see it...so with that in mind (firmly implanted there by She Who Must Be Obeyed) I took the plunge. My grandkids rave about gaming on it with little delay and fantastic response times (whatever that means). I highly recommend you seek one of these out & upgrade your theater to almost 'real' theater quality. I have no idea what the problem with supply is at this stage of the game, but like I said, keep those eyes open & grab one when you can!!!I'm keeping my Home Cinema 5040UB projector for 3D movies as it does a fine job and I'm not willing to give them up yet. Of course there is no 4K 3D process that I know of (but there's a lot I don't know about everything) and here's hoping they come up with one...that would be great. I spoke with Epson's representatives about the possibility of a software upgrade in the future to add regular 3D capabilities to this unit and was told that that was not planned for future firmware upgrades...but you never know if enough of us ask for It!!Well...She Who Must Be Obeyed pointed out that this is a review, not a novel, and I should shut up now and go away. Her wish is my command! So long!!!