I'm fully interested in this projector, and I plan to buy one soon.
BTW, since I would use it non just to play movies, but also hi-def videogames (through PS3, xbox360 and PC), I fear that since it is a LCD projector, it could have painful motion blur during pannings, that could heavily affect videogames performance (i.e. in First Peron Shooters, in which you constantly turn around your sight).
I come from a DLP (Mitsubishi HC 3000) that didn't have this issue.
Can someone who uses the Epson TW2000/1080 UB to play videogames tell me something about the matter?
Thanks in advance!

I too am very interested in this. I plan on buying one in the next few months and I play COD4 and rainbow six (all first person shooter) and I wonder how the performance on this projector will be?? Motion blur?

As am I very interested. I have never owned a PJ and have a UB arriving in days. I play a lot of Call of Duty, hopefully the motion smearing is a non or close to non issue.

Question, isn't motion blur more of a concern with flat panel LCD and not front projector LCD???

I don't know that you'll get a firm answer on this. I think you can find people that insist one way or the other, but you just won't know until you see it yourself (much like RBE).

I have a 1080UB and don't see any motion blur/smearing/artifacts/whatever. My brother does not, either. I had a Mits 4900 and did not see any motion blur but my brother did. Go figure.

i am new to gaming and have played call of duty 4 and uncharted drakes fortune on my 1080UB home and PS3 in 1080p mode. I have not noticed any motion blurring or other artifacts. for what it is worth I sometimes notice motion blur on my older LCD tv.
Peter

I have used the original Epson 1080 frequently and I have not seen any form of motion blur. I do not know about the 1080UB specifically.

The thing that probably should be more of a concern is frame latency - how much time it takes the projector to put the incoming image on the screen. A CRT monitor will scan the image directly onto its phosphurs as it comes in. A projector (or any digital display) has to wait for the entire frame to come in, process it, and then display it onto the screen. This delay is usually at least 1 frame and can be as high as 4 frames depending on how sophisticated the processing is; this would equate to 17 to 67 ms.

For this reason, I never feed my projector a 1080i signal because those signals require an extra deinterlacing step. I always use 720p or 1080p. Those images should be displayed faster.

Look for projectors with "Game" modes like the Panasonic PT-AX200U which is a 720p projector that brags about its low latency. 1080p projectors are still being marketed to suit the home theater crowd so they rarely mention how fast their processing is and don't usually have "Game" modes.

Good luck,

-Mr. Wigggles

for what it's worth - I have an old Panny AE700U with a PS3, HDMI and have been playing a lot of COD4 and it ROCKS! no blur, ghosting, or lag. I can't imagine what it would be like on a pj with more brightness and better contrast! be wary of COD4 on the big screen - you may be traumatized!

Thanks for all the replys, much appreciated. I guess I'll go out in some shop and try the TW2000 myself, but I don't think that I'll be allowed to play games, too :o
In the mean time, I'll read any further advice from users in this thread.