![]() In a little under two hours I had the screen assembled, the LS800 unboxed and splashing its 4000 lumens on screen. It is claimed to be able to reject up to 90% of ambient light and offer viewing angles all the way to 180 degrees. Setup and ScreenĮpson had also sent me the 120” version of their SilverFlex lenticular ALR screen. My only complaints are it feels a bit basic and I’d like a more premium feel for something that accompanies a $3500 display. I was quickly able to learn the layout for my most used buttons and didn’t need to look down to use it. The included remote is well laid out with buttons logically placed. The front right and rear feet are manually adjustable to assist with aligning the projector. The LS800 sits on three feet, two in front and one in the rear. The cavity behind the cover is quite large and allows ample room for hiding your cabling or even a streaming stick if you don’t care to use the built in Android TV OS. On the right side you’ll find a removable cover that hides the LS800’s array of ports and its manual focus slider. The front of the projector is dominated by a large removable cloth cover hiding the surprisingly decent Yamaha custom designed 2.1 AudioEngine speaker system. It’s a large projector weighing in at 27.6 lbs and stretching 27.4" wide, 13.4" deep and 6.2”. ![]() Overall, it’s an attractive design and much cleaner and an improvement from the LS500. I was pleased to see that Epson offers this projector in both black and white casings to match room aesthetics. This truly is an ultra short throw projector and for 120” screens it can fit on a lot of media consoles. A lot of USTs need 25” just to throw a 100” image. Measuring from screen to the front of the projector you can have a 100” screen at 17.3”, a 120” screen at 20.2” and a whopping 150” screen from 24.2”. Epson really takes advantage of these lumens in the LS800 by enabling screens up to 150” from very short throw distances, even for an ultra short throw projector. The 3-chip LCD design from Epson delivers a lot of usable brightness, more than you typically get in a single-chip DLP projector. This is a dual shifting mechanism just like the previous Epson 5050UB, a very well liked projector. Even though they share the same branding, this system is unlike the new quad-pixel shifting in Epson’s standard throw LS11000 and LS12000 projectors. ![]() The LS800 picks up where the LS500 left off with a rated 4000 lumens coming from a 20,000 hour rated blue laser+phosphor pushed through Epson’s proprietary 4K PRO-UHD 3LCD pixel shifting system to bring near 4K resolution onto screen. HDR handling could be a bit better, it’s not the sharpest UST out there, and we’d look elsewhere for a dedicated theater space with light control due to its average native contrast, but it sure is fun to get an image this bright and usable with all the lights on at any time of day. The Epson LS800 is the complete package for living room viewing - pair it with a good lenticular ALR screen and it is sure to impress. ![]() The projector offers built-in Android TV, great dynamic contrast, a good speaker system designed by Yamaha, and a gaming input for ultra-low input lag.įor these reasons we decided to give it an Editor’s Choice award for those looking for a big bright image in their living room that will handle almost anything you throw at it. This projector delivers among one of, if not the shortest throw ratios available, a very bright and usable picture mode in Dynamic, an accurate out-of-the-box Cinema mode, and no rainbow effect. SummaryĮpson has done a few special things with the EpiqVision Ultra LS800. Epson is promising big things from this projector, pun intended. Epson is throwing its hat into the ring to continue that evolutionary pace with the EpiqVision Ultra LS800 priced at a relatively reasonable $3,499. Unlike the standard throw projector market, USTs are evolving at a breakneck pace. Here we are in late 2022 and the Ultra Short Throw (UST) projector market is still delivering us new and exciting products.
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