Epson Home Cinema 2250 3LCD Full HD 1080p Projector with Android TV, Streaming Projector, Home Theater Projector, 10W Speaker, Image Enhancement, Frame Interpolation, 70,000:1 contrast ratio, HDMI

If I could run this thing in non-eco mode and still be able to hear a movie, this would be the best A/V purchase Ive made. But good Lord is that fan loud. It sounds like a hair dryer. Fortunately, at night eco mode is plenty bright. The only other complaint is that the HDMI port broke the first time someone tried to plug something in, so the only way to use an external source is to unplug the internal Google TV dongle and use that HDMI. Very inconvenient. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars

I bought this during quarantine because I missed going to the movie theater and it was the best decision Ive ever made! The picture quality and brightness are amazing. I have an older projector of similar lumens and its completely drowned out by a single light. This thing I can use with multiple lights on (Hue lights in a warm setting at around 40-50% brightness) and it still looks incredible. This more has to do with the contrast ration, I assume, because this projector has super dark blacks and bright vivid color. The sound was okay, but unusable at lower volumes because of the loudness of the fan. I dont find the fan particularly loud or distracting, it sounds like any other projector. It can definitely heat up a small room, but its a lot less hot than some other projectors Ive had. I opted to up my experience by getting Bose soundbar and luckily, instead of having to deal with hiding cords, this thing works great with Bluetooth. I have little to no latency issues. The latency issue is almost always on Netflix and I havent had too much trouble with any other streaming service. Its fixed pretty easily by just pausing, rewinding a second or two and then pressing play. The Android TV is awesome, but configuring your home screen is a little less awesome. Its a bit complicated and clunky to download each streaming service and upon start up, it takes about 15-20 seconds to recognize that Im pressing buttons on the remote to get to my streaming service of choice. I had a ton of issues with Wifi connection that plagued me for the first month and still comes up sometimes. It just wont connect to my Wifi. I have a Velop mesh network, any and every other product Ive had has never had connection issues. It says there was an error connecting, but I have super fast Wifi and I have a Velop in the same room as the projector. I have to try again and again for 10 minutes, sometimes it connects, other times I have to turn it off, wait for it turn back on, then deal with it not connecting another 1-3 times. I havent had that issue as of late, but it happens every now and then. Also, dont even bother downloading the Hulu app, it wont work. It has a crazy amount of lag and nothing can fix it. The only way I can watch Hulu is through casting it from my phone. The Chromecast function works great and I love it. I dont know how to put into words how much of a godsend the zoom feature is. It is the best thing ever. TLDR: This is probably the best bang for your buck on lower budget home cinema projectors. (I say lower budget because this thing is still incredible expensive, but it is so worth it if you cant afford one of those $6000 cinema projectors). Get your own sound system, the built-in speakers are okay and unusable at low volume. The features are kickass but as with all technology, there are some flaws, like Wifi connectivity issues, occasional latency issues, slow start-up, and the Hulu app being unusable, but it more for makes up for it with the amount of features it has and the quality of the picture. The zoom feature is the best thing ever.

###Update after a few weeks with the projector: -- I ended up returning it for the following reasons: 1) **The bluetooth connection is unusable.** There are two options for outputting bluetooth audio -- one is to connect an external speaker via Epsons own overlay menu, and two, to connect via the android OS that powers the stick included with the projector. Both options result in consistent, considerable lag, regardless of the app being used, regardless of the speaker being used for output. Unusable bluetooth means that either you are happy to live with the built-in speaker (if you can hear it behind the fan, which is loud), or you have to connect an external audio jack to your speakers, or you have to use an external Roku/Fire stick or Apple TV. The problem is that all those options defeat the point of having a smart projector. You have to remove the (rather pretty) back cover and youre left with cables/sticks poking out -- which is not great if you want to have the projector itself be permanently installed somewhere where it is visibile. For us, the difference between this projector and one of the tried-and-trusted 1080p offerings from BenQ was the fact that with this one we would be a single cable, neat set-up, or so we thought. Which leads me to issue #2... 2) Broadly speaking **the Android TV stick built-in sucks and its a limitation of this projector**. I detest android at the best of times. But I think that even apologists for Google will find it hard to applaud the particular stick that comes with this projector. The App Store selection is poor. Most apps regularly malfunction. And the stick (assuming its the sticks fault) cannot even handle a bluetooth connection properly. If Epson cannot invest in its own smart platform, which I understand, they would have done better by partnering with an accomplished stick manufacturer -- like Roku. But I guess Android was the cheaper option. And you get what you pay for. Epsons OWN GOAL here is that the belly of the projector can only accommodate the Android Stick it comes with. They would literally have had a more successful product if they shipped it with a hole to fill with your own (Fire or Roku) smart stick -- provided, of course, the compartment was large enough for those alternatives. 3) **Loudness**. This thing is loud. Yes, it gets better with the Cinema setting. But there is no disguising that it is loud. And frankly, the bright setting is very much necessary unless you are able to create 100% darkness. I would have been able to live with the sub-par Android platform and the loud fan if issue #1 had not been such a deal-breaker. Sadly, my search for an *actually smart* projector goes on. All I want is a projector that, without additional cables, can reliably access the apps of major movie & TV vendors (including Apple TV) and output the audio via Bluetooth or Airplay in synchronized fashion. You would have thought this wouldnt be so hard, in 2020, especially given that Im happy to cough up a thousand bucks for it. Alas, I am yet to see any company manage that. Original review below -- note that I had clearly spoken too soon about the bluetooth connectivity. ---- This is a first impressions review - I may update it after I have more weeks of use. The 2250 is a good projector. I recommend it. Image quality is generally on a par with the BenQ HT2150A (though the BenQ perhaps wins in on the deep blacks). However, the Epson 2250 is rather special in 3 ways: 1) is has a useful throw ratio with lots of zoom and vertical lens shift. I find that the BenQ projectors always want to get onto the couch with you. This one instead wants to sit behind your head. It’s not as convenient as a short throw if you plan to move it daily. But for a semi-permanent installation, like mine, it is great. The lens shift is super useful, too. 2) it is compact. In fact, it fits inside the IKEA Kallax cube with enough room for ventilation. 3) it has USABLE smarts. It comes with a built in Android TV stick. Sadly you cannot replace the stick with a Roku, because the space is tight and tailored for that specific stick. Android TV is not great but it’s ok. Of course, using Google is a privacy concern and should be avoided where possible, but at least, unlike some other supposedly smart projectors on the “Aptoide” platform, this one actually works (mostly) and plenty of English-language apps are available. There is no AppleTV+ app, or at least not yet. Other apps freeze not infrequently. But Sling, Netflix, Prime, all work, the WiFi works reliably and Bluetooth seems ok too. All in all, this allows you to achieve what could be called “portable”, one-cable functionality. Just plug it into the power cord and you’re good to go. I am giving it 4 starts instead of 5 because of a few annoyances: 1) the reliance on the android tv stick. Making the slot large enough for a Roku or Fire stick would have been much better. We don’t all want to gift our personal information to google to sell for profit. 2) it’s relatively noisy. Out of the box it comes in “bright” mode, which sends the fan to overdrive. But even on “cinema” mode, the fan is vigorous and you can hear a whiz sound as well as chirping. 3) looks. While it is compact, it is not as sleek as the “E” series like the EF11 for example. In sum: a great 1080p projector that is actually smart enough to work on its own without external sticks and boxes, connects to WiFi and Bluetooth and that is small enough not to offend in your living room.

So we bought this for outside movie nights and it has delivered 100%. We use a 120 inch screen. The picture is very bright which is great for when the sun isn’t quite down all the way or backyard lights are also running. I can’t say much about the sound as we use a Bluetooth sound bar for audio. The kids love it so much I have been setting it up indoors on the weekends for family movie nights too. The picture quality is great. Another major plus of this unit is the built in android tv. We have it linked up to all our streaming apps so there are no other AV devices to hook up. I’ve been using it now for a few months so as long as the unit holds up I will be extremely satisfied.

This is an excellent projector, though its a full HD projector its on par with my Sony 4k UHD TV. Images are very bright and contrast is amazing. I have connected this to my AV receiver so not sure on Bluetooth issues others reported in their reviews. I like the Andriod TV in built in the projector and used Aux cable for sound output for this functionality. Other HDMI port can be used to connect to receiver and from there to any other devices such as disc player or gaming console. Right now using this port to connect my PS4 Pro and have zero issues so far. Projector remote is Bluetooth enabled, so you dont need to point to projector. My throw distance is around 15 feet and getting 120inch of screen. Optical zoom can also be used to increase the size a bit more. Could have back lit on remote for better visibility of buttons in dark room, may be Epson is confident enough on their bright projector and hope that screen light is more than enough to see the buttons!!

Amazing picture quality and features at this price!! We use this in our living room as a tv replacement. Very bright picture despite lots of ambient light. 120 inch diagonal screen with projector ceiling mounted 14 feet back. Built in streaming, bluetooth, Frame Interpolation and Picture Enhancement. Not to mention 10 memory saves if you want to set up different modes based on light control and media your watching. I have it paired with an Elite Cinegray screen and the picture is leaps and bounds above two previous projectors we had. Tremendous color and brightness right out of the box but I tweaked a few settings to personal taste. Im still holding out on purchasing a 4K projector as the technology and prices evolve. I highly recommend this model for anyone in the same boat or on a budget. You wont be disappointed!! Movies, streaming, and games all look outstanding!!

This is my second Epson projector. I spent literally months learning about lumens and contrast ratios and a bunch of other stuff. The deal breaker or should I say deal maker for me was when this dropped from 999 to 799. Upon arrival, I replaced my older Epson projector with this one. Right out the gate it was obvious that a higher contrast ratio makes a huge difference regardless of lumen output. This one doesnt come close to the 4000 or 5000 lumen projectors I was looking at, but that really doesnt matter when the contrast ratio is this high as this one is. I used to have to close all the blinds, all the doors, all the lights, basically everything had to be as darkest possible during the the day to see the other projector, especially when its showing a nighttime view or a dark scene. This one allows me to leave Windows wide open doors wide open and I can still actually see clearly during night time scenes on TV shows and movies. Dont get me wrong its not as bright as a television, but its bright enough to see whats going on as opposed to guessing. This projector is probably the best value for a sub $1,000 projector. I have never experienced the rainbow effect because these projectors simply dont do it, but I was tempted with the BenQ projectors with the higher lumen ratings. Now I dont care anymore because I understand that its all about the contrast ratio, not the lumens.

Excellent picture quality and features. Using a 24 ft HDMI cable on a switching device with TV. I heard someone in a review speculating on projector having issues on long HDMI cables but you can put that to rest. Could have been a compatibility issue for him . I have been enjoying the projector since I bought it months ago and very happy.

My room is 12 wide x 17 long x 9 vaulted ceiling PRO: - Powerful ZOOM from 16 throw and its still bright onto a 150 screen. - Powerful zoom eliminates oversplash (gray border around the picture) - size is still portable - builtin smart TV apps like Youtube, Amazon Prime, and Netflix work but they slightly stutter (still watchable). CON: - no ethernet port - builtin smart TV slightly stutters (ADVICE: Get an Apple TV 4K and use wired ethernet) - builtin smart TV HULU pauses so much that its unusable

The picture is great. Comparing other projectors I tried (under 1000 dollar & 1080p), Espon 2200 &2250 has best color performance ( including brightness and color recovery). However, the fan noise is rather loud than I expected so as the heat. It should be pretty normal considering it has 3000 lumen. It is detectable if seating near about 5 feet while it’s working. Sure you can use Eco mode. The brightness and noise will both decrease. But it will make some wired electrical noise during Eco mode, it happens both on 2200 and 2250. If you have your own house and love to built a home cinema(hang the projector on the top). Then you may consider this as your projector. But it’s not very friendly for someone who just want to use it in a small apartment or rented home.