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Projector Full HD Epson 3500 up to 300 inch - $275 (Atlanta)
Clairmont near Briarcliff
condition:
excellent
make / manufacturer:
Epson
model name / number:
3500
size / dimensions:
16"by 13"by 6"
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The Epson Home Cinema 3500 is a white-and-gray home theater projector with a compact rectangular body, a front lens, and a design meant for ceiling, rear, or front placement. It’s a 1080p 3LCD projector with 2500 lumens of color and white brightness, up to 70,000:1 contrast, lens shift, 1.6x zoom, and built-in 10W speakers. It was made for bright living-room use and 2D/3D Full HD viewing.
The Viewing Experience
The Home Cinema 3500 establishes its home entertainment bona-fides right up front with a brilliantly bright image. The 2,500 lumen rating is conservative, at least on our test unit, and performs very well in rooms with ambient light The other thing that immediately grabbed our attention was the sound. The Home Cinema 3500 has two 10W speakers that are much larger than those found on some other projectors, giving it a clarity that is unusual for on-board speakers. In the past, Epson has released several home video projectors with impressive sound, and it's good to see them continuing the tradition.
Even in a bright room, the Home Cinema 3500 has enough power to light up a fairly large screen. At 100" diagonal, the picture never seemed washed out or dull, despite significant ambient light in the room. During peak daylight hours, some might want to shrink the screen down to a more modest 80" diagonal to maintain good contrast, especially if your living room is covered in windows like mine is. But this trade-off is a matter of personal taste.
With the lights off, the sky's the limit as far as screen size is concerned. This can be quite dramatic, especially when you zoom the projector to fill up the entire wall and gather the family for movie night.
Key Features
Great 2D Image. The Home Cinema 3500 is engineered to look great in the living room or anywhere ambient light is present. The projector's high light output keeps the image from getting washed out, but black level and contrast are solid enough that the picture has plenty of pop for nighttime use. The stock color calibrations aren't perfect, but they're definitely in the ballpark, and the projector's calibration controls are a bit coarse but otherwise easy to use. Super Resolution makes everything look sharp and detailed, and even helps standard-definition material look better.
Great 3D Image. The Home Cinema 3500's super-high brightness gives it a striking 3D picture. Using the same radio-frequency 3D technology as Epson's higher-end projectors, the Home Cinema 3500 produces a 3D image with minimal crosstalk. 2D to 3D conversion is included, and while we're not fans of this feature in general it is executed well on the Home Cinema 3500.
As far as the hardware is concerned, the Home Cinema 3500 uses an internal RF emitter to synchronize the 3D glasses. Both the 3500 and the 3600e come with two pairs of the same ELPGS03 glasses used on all current Epson 3D projectors, and additional pairs are $99 direct from Epson. The glasses are comfortable and rechargeable via an included USB cable. Glasses must be paired to the projector before use, but this process takes seconds and you only need to do it once.
Bright image. With over 2500 lumens to work with, you can use the Home Cinema 3500 to create a giant picture in a darkened room or a theater-sized image in your living room. Even with some ambient light, image sizes of 80" to 100" diagonal are attainable and look great. And the extra brightness helps when you want to use 3D, too.
Picture-in-Picture. P-in-P can now handle two HDMI sources simultaneously. It's now possible to watch a Blu-ray movie on the main screen and keep a football game on the subscreen even though both sources use HDMI. As for limitations, you can't watch 3D movies with P-in-P, and you can't use the "Fast" Image Processing feature.