Warranty: 1 Year — effortless warranty claims with UK-wide coverage. Learn more
Rate this product — your experience helps other buyers.
Used for: More than a year
Two years of daily use with no maintenance at all
It shows up every mark on a painted wall
Bought when the old lamp unit finally gave up, and the running cost has been the story ever since. No lamps, no filters, no service visit and no fading; the laser is quoted at 20,000 hours and the picture in the second year is the picture from the first week. A year in we moved it onto a proper board rather than the painted wall, and I wish we had done that at the start. On plaster the texture catches the light at that angle and text has a faint sparkle you stop noticing but never quite unsee. Otherwise it simply works, every day, all day, and it is quiet enough that a class does not talk over it.
Used for: 1–3 months
Handles a bright room without complaint
The built in speaker is a last resort
Sound is the only weak spot and everybody knows that going in: the internal speaker exists so a laptop clip is audible in an emergency, nothing more. Ours goes out to a pair of wall speakers and that was always the plan. Picture in a bright room is the reason to buy one, and on that it is exactly as promised.
Used for: 3–6 months
Very bright and very even across the whole image
Fan noise rises noticeably in the brightest mode
Four months of use in a room that seats 40, and the picture has been beyond reproach: bright with the lights on, even from corner to corner, and colour that does not shift as the room warms up through the afternoon. The noise is worth knowing about. In the standard mode it is a background hush nobody notices. Put it into the brightest setting for a room with the blinds up and the fan is clearly audible from the front rows, enough that a quiet video needs the volume up. We leave it in the middle setting now and pull the nearest blind instead. The other note is cabling: the sockets face sideways under a cover, and the cover fouls the bracket arm, so plan the lead route before it goes on the wall.
Used for: 1–3 months
Laser starts instantly, with no warm up
The remote is tiny for a room this size
Ours goes on and off perhaps 15 times a day as rooms change over, and the instant start is worth more than anything on the spec sheet. No dimming, no cooling cycle to sit through before somebody can move it on to the next thing. Brightness is comfortably enough for a room with three windows down one side, and the automatic keystone gets close before the corner adjustment finishes the job. The remote is the only silly part: a small plastic thing that goes missing between rooms and needs pointing at the unit rather than at the screen, which is behind you.
Used for: Less than a month
A huge image from almost no distance
You will want a proper screen surface
Sits a hand's width from the wall and fills the whole of it, which still makes people stop in the doorway and stare!
Used for: 3–6 months
Bright, sharp and silent enough
Nothing beyond the price of the bracket
Does everything the old lamp projector could not!
Used for: 3–6 months
Colour stays bright with the lights on
The reason for choosing the Epson over the DLP alternative was colour brightness, and in a room full of fluorescent tubes you can see it: reds and greens stay saturated rather than going pastel the moment somebody flicks the lights on. We run it in a training room where the lights have to stay up for people taking notes, and nobody has asked for the blinds to come down since.
Used for: Less than a month
Straight swap for a unit that had hung from the ceiling for years and threw its beam right across the teacher's desk. This one sits above the board and nobody walks through it any more, which sounds like a small thing until you have spent a term being blinded every time you point at something. Setup was an afternoon including the bracket, and the picture squared up with the corner tools inside 10 minutes.
Used for: 1–3 months
No shadows and no dazzle
Wants a very flat wall
Teaching in front of the board instead of dodging round a beam has changed the room completely!
Used for: Less than a month
An enormous picture from a few inches of wall space
Bracket and screen add a great deal to the bill
First week with it, and the install is the story rather than the picture. It sits so close to the wall that the bracket does all the work; get it a couple of millimetres out of square and the image is a trapezium you then correct in software, which costs you sharpness you have paid for. We drilled twice, the second time with a laser level and a lot more care. Once right, the result is genuinely impressive: a 100 inch image with the presenter standing beside the screen and not a shadow anywhere on it. The other cost is the surface. On a painted wall it works, but the texture shows at that angle, so a proper board went up as well and that was not in the original budget. Picture, brightness and quiet running all deserve full marks; the honest cost of getting there is what takes one off.