![]() ![]() Here again, this won't matter much when viewing in ambient light, but in a dark room, it will lower the effective contrast on screen even further. In addition, with a white exterior-rather than sharing the LS12000's black color scheme-the LS11000 unit itself will tend to reflect light back at the screen. ![]() But the difference will be obvious in a dark room, both in theory and based on my viewing tests. But the ratings can be useful when comparing two models from the same manufacturer.) The lower contrast won't matter much in a family room with ambient light, because the light will tend to wash out black levels, which hides the difference between good contrast and great contrast. (Keep in mind that different manufacturers use different approaches to rating contrast, which makes most comparisons meaningless. Either one is unusually bright for a traditional home theater setup in a dark room, and well into the level you'd want for a family room.Ī more important difference between the two models is that the contrast rating for the LS11000, while good, is only about half the rating for the LS12000. It's rated at 2,500 lumens, which is a little lower than the LS12000's rating, but not enough so to notice. ![]() Partly because of the glass lens and the need for a heavy-duty mechanism that can hit the correct position when calling up settings from memory, the LS11000 is fairly hefty, at 28 pounds and 7.6 by 20.5 by 17.6 inches (HWD). Note that unlike the LS12000, the LS11000 does not support the alternative option of using an external anamorphic lens for CIH. For home theater, this is most often used in combination with a Cinemascope (2.35:1 or 2.4:1) screen for switching among 16:9, 2.35:1, and 2.4:1 formats. As discussed in more detail in our Epson Pro Cinema 4050 review, CIH setups give you the same image height for content with different aspect ratios. Adding to ease of use is that focus and shift are powered, and are controlled from the remote with enough precision to easily adjust each.Īside from helping to make setup easier, these powered settings (plus the ability to save multiple combinations of settings to memory for easy retrieval) make it easy to maintain a constant image height (CIH) setup. For setup, this offers the flexibility to position the projector either centered horizontally or offset to one side, and at heights ranging from a low or high shelf in the back of the room to inverted in a ceiling mount. Starting from the centered position for the lens, the 47.1% horizontal shift in either direction can move the image nearly half a screen width left or right, while the 96.3% vertical shift either way can move it nearly a full screen height up or down. All of these features help make setup easy and add to the projector's flexibility for day-to-day viewing. ![]() They include a large zoom range, at 2.1x large vertical and horizontal lens shifts (for moving the image position without moving the projector) and a lens memory to store up to 10 combinations of zoom, shift, and focus settings for easy retrieval. Those who don't see them easily or don't mind them won't care, but for those who find them bothersome, this can be a critical issue.Īs with many of Epson's Home Cinema and Pro Cinema models, the LS11000 offers a set of sophisticated control features for the lens. Keep in mind, too, that because of its three-chip design, the LS11000 isn't at risk of producing the red-green-blue flashes known as rainbow artifacts that some projectors are prone to displaying. It's hard see any difference at normal seating distances between what those projectors offer and the real thing, but it's still not really 4K. These versions are used in the Epson EpiqVision Ultra LS500 4K and the Epson Pro Cinema 4050, for example. But if you're looking for a projector for your family room, the $3,999 LS11000 will give you most of the same capabilities as its more expensive cousin, including good color accuracy, for $1,000 less.Īs discussed in more detail in the LS12000 review, earlier versions of Epson's 4K Pro-UHD pixel-shifting technology deliver only half as many pixels on screen as are in a 3,840-by-2,160 pixel image. That means the LS12000 remains our Editors' Choice pick for a 4K projector for a traditional home theater. The LS11000 has lower contrast and a white, rather than black, color, which makes it more appropriate for use in a room with lights on rather than off. The Epson Home Cinema LS11000 4K Pro-UHD Laser Projector joins the Epson Pro Cinema LS12000 as the second Epson model to deliver images with a 4K resolution-a full 3,840 by 2,160 pixels.
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