Epson Home Cinema 3200 4K PRO-UHD 3-Chip Projector with HDR

Easy setup, quiet, beautiful picture quality with PS4 Update: 1 month in and it has a pixel in the middle of the display that is stuck on red. Lowering the rating due to this quality issue. I never had this issue with my old BenQ projector.

There’s nothing quite like seeing a classic epic film on the big screen, but this projector makes it possible to come as close as you can at home. It’s not too heavy or too big, so you can either permanently set it up or bring it out as needed for movie night or the big game. The picture is great and compatible with 4K for the highest quality video you can have.

Heavy (compare with Optoma UHD-50X), I dont feel very comfortable sitting under it. Kind of noisy (compare with Optoma UHD-50X) Picture is sharp in the middle but blurry on the sides. The BIGGEST problem is, it doesnt work with the 50ft HDMI 2.0 cable I laid behind the wall and ceiling! I tried many different computers and a SONY Blu-ray disk player, NO SIGNAL! It only worked with a Acer Laptop computer. VERY FRUSTRATED! Finally, I got the Optoma UHD-50X, it worked right the way! And the Optoma is so much lighter, quieter, image is sharp everywhere! I can finally relaxed and enjoyed the big screen. Compare with the UHD-50X, This projector looks better, and the quick corner function is so much easier to adjust the screen.

EDIT: After a lot more tweaking, Im updating this review to 3 stars from 2. Yes, I still have focus issues. Yes, for PC use its still mostly terrible and I do a lot less PC use as a result. I never even think about doing actual work with it. However, I have figured out enough of its quirks and use its memory settings to get acceptable results in enough situations that I decided to keep it. In summary, if youre willing to put in the work, this is an OKAY entry level 4k projector. --- Ive spent about a week with this projector. I was very excited as its one of the few 4k projectors out there with input lag thats acceptable for gaming. However, as a cinephile as well, the promise of a rich 3LCD image was also very important to me. Lastly, on my current 1080p, I do a fair amount of couch surfing and casual TV watching. The Epson 3200, unfortunately, only does one of these things well: movies. And when youre just doing movies, boy is it stunning. For games or PC use, its a big step down. Lets start with the two big elephants in the room. 1) Focus uniformity is terrible. I work with projectors a lot at my job and Ive NEVER seen focus uniformity issues this bad. No matter where you focus the screen, some other part of the screen will be out of focus, and not just a little bit. If I focus right at the center in MS Windows, the clock in the corner is extremely fuzzy. You have to choose a compromise setting where the entire image is slightly out of focus. I tried everything. Im pretty sure Ive read the entire manual twice looking for a solution. I did multiple passes of lens convergence. I tried adjusting source signals and resolutions. I did some research and, lo and behold, found many reports of the problem on reddit and AVS Forum. Some people returned their units as many as FOUR TIMES, and then finally got a unit that was acceptable to them. Ugh. Those dont seem like good odds. So either its just a bad projector or quality control is really terrible. Either way, you dont want to be holding the bag. When youre watching movies, the focus issue is far less visible, but when in Windows, as I said, its terrible. In games, where your attention is on the center of the screen most of the time, it seems okay at first. However, games tend to put menus and tool bars around the edge of the screen, right where the focus issues are the worst. Its tolerable in simpler games but if you like world-building or grand strategy games, the problem is particularly bad. 2) On to the next elephant. In 4k, nothing is legible in Windows unless you zoom it tremendously. Not because of size, but because of clarity and sharpness. If you drop down to 1080 with 4k enhancement off, its still barely usable, and not an experience youd want to endure for any length of time. Even in areas where the projector is as focused as it can be, Windows looks terrible. I dont know if this is a limitation of 3LCD or not, but the edges of fonts are horribly muddled. The pixels are also far more visible than my 1080p DLP. With that one, I have to put my face within a foot to see the individual pixels. With this epson, I can see them from around 3 feet away. You may have heard of the screen door effect. No, you wont see it at normal seating distances, but youll feel it in the form of the muddy font and window edges. Theres a set of enhancement presets that somewhat help, but still fall short of what you can get for far less money in a 1080p projector. 3) Signals. Signal sync isnt terrible but its not great either. Its slow to sync and occasionally fails when switching sources, *even on 1080p sources*. Occasionally Ill get a blank screen and need to switch to the alternate HDMI input and back again. 4) Placement sucks. Like many, I have my projector mounted on the ceiling. I have to lens shift to the very maximum setting to get the image to line up, at which point it requires digital keystoning. Most projectors project at an angle, so either theyre projecting up from a coffee table, or flip them over and install in a ceiling mount, and now theyre projecting downward toward the screen. That results in only needing to do fairly fine-tune adjustments to get everything lined up. The only way to place the epson in such a way as to be optically square to the screen is to drop it another two or three feet, at which point it would be a foot over my head. If you have a large installation with longer throw, this might not affect you, but in an other situation, its as if they designed a projector without thinking how anyone in real life might actually use it. 5) Its not portable. At a chonky 15 pounds and around 3 - 4 times larger than a DLP, yes, technically you could lug it to your friends house, but you sure wont want to. Does this projector do anything well outside of movies? Not much, but yes. 1. Its very bright. VERY bright. I can keep the shades partly open during casual viewing. 2. In Eco mode, its very quiet. And it throws so much light, most will be fine in Eco mode. I will most definitely miss this the most. 3. Color pop is amazing. The colors are so rich it very often looks like youre staring at a high end flat screen. Ive read this is an advantage of 3LCD. Especially with animation and nature content, it just blows you away and is so immersive in 4k. 4. The remote is a real remote, not those dollar store specials a lot of other projectors use. It has a nice heft and includes a backlight for use in low light. Conclusion: I wanted SO BADLY to like this projector. On paper, it ticks all the boxes. But after days of trying to overcome its shortcomings, I just cant ignore its very serious faults and limitations. Not for nearly $1500. Some aspects of this projector, particularly the focus uniformity, are significantly inferior to projectors costing 1/3 the price and its just baffling that Epson thought people would be okay with that.

This projector is Epsons mid level Pro UHD projector. Its a wonderful value for what you get. With 3000 lumens of brightness, 100,000:1 contrast ratio and horizontal and vertical lens shift. Its a great value for its price range.

Unless you are one of those excruciatingly fussy technophiles with Rolls Royce bank account, I cant imagine a better value in video projectors. This machine delivers the sort of knockout quality image that could not fail to impress this cinephile. I have made my way through a succession of these devices, since the 90s, and this one provides a viewing experience beyond my wildest dreams.

Very happy with purchase. Picture is great.

Just buy it, but plan on having Netflix premium. You wont want to watch anything that is not Ultra HD 4K. I painted the wall with Behr silver screen from home depot. I have 134 inch picture in a 12 foot room. The picture quality is beyond amazing. I just hope this thing lasts for a while.

I’ve had the projector for almost a year now and all I can said is that’s it’s everything that i paid for… the Picture is great!! And along with all the great features it has duel inputs which is a lifesaver… Knock on wood the only thing Ive has to do was clean the air filter… it’s definitely upgrade from the old generic 1080p!! Highly recommended for any set-up!! What made it so much easier was being able to pay monthly for it!

I thought it was going to be subpar… Ended up being superior!