The Offical Epson 8350 Owners Thread - Page 190

Originally Posted by kawie01

kaisergrendel,

I am fairly new to pj's, this is my first pj. I am learning by trial & error. For settings 2:2 is enabled, iris is on fast, power is on normal. I hope that is what you were asking about.

For example when watching Transformers 3, building shots look tad blurry. When playing xbox 360, blurr with just about every monement. Could be the game, didn't think about that.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by kawie01

HDMI. Would a long cord have something to do with it? Not sure how long it is. I thought 2:2 was good. doubling each frame-right?

Originally Posted by kawie01

Both are at 1080p. If I recall correctly, when I checked signal info it read 60hz progressive. I will double check when I get home.

Originally Posted by kawie01

Your help is greatly appreciated. I was getting bummed out if I made the right purchase.

Originally Posted by Tomas_S

Hi everybody. Long time AVS member but I haven't posted in awhile.

I was looking for a quick/cheap upgrade to my 6 year old Marantz VP-12S3. I was a little hesitant replacing a $12,000 projector with a < $1200 projector but I gotta say WOW. I'm so impressed with the picture quality of this unit right out of the box.

My older 720p Marantz had a lot of usage on it and the bulb was starting to dim, so instead of dropping some cash on a new bulb I thought I'd give this projector a whirl. My biggest gripe with the old projector is I had some serious Moire going on with my 120" Stewart Grayhawk with Microperf. The 1080p really took care of that!

Originally Posted by Tomas_S

Hi everybody. Long time AVS member but I haven't posted in awhile.

I was looking for a quick/cheap upgrade to my 6 year old Marantz VP-12S3. I was a little hesitant replacing a $12,000 projector with a < $1200 projector but I gotta say WOW. I'm so impressed with the picture quality of this unit right out of the box.

Originally Posted by kaisergrendel

Hahah, the pains of early adoption. Hows it compare to the Marantz?

Originally Posted by Tomas_S

So far, first impressions are a definite improvement. I haven't been able to sit through a whole movie or game yet. The Moire is history and colors and contrast are much improved. Since this is a dedicated theater & totally light controlled I was worried if I didn't make the wrong decision not opting for the 8700UB. Blacks on the 8350 are much better than my Marantz and I think I made the right decision. But for $1200 it was a cheap gamble.

Originally Posted by SonyCrusader

I've made a few changes in my setup for evaluation and testing.

First, "convergence." I was very suspect when my unit would be fine one day and a bit off the next. The lens assembly is not terribly solid-feeling, a lot of free-play. After setting zoom and dialing in good focus, I had a 1-pixel vertical offset on red. I further tuned the focus and the slight improvement seemed to dial that away. I also stuck a wad of memory foam (cut from a mattress topper!) to gently support the lens assembly. So far, seems pretty stable, and I can't really tell if the tweaking helped or it's just a good day for the 8350!

I added an ND2 neutral-density filter at the output lens and it's a good improvement. I'd like to go with a higher value but I don't have enough white level headroom... pushing past even 10 fL clips below ideal white. My lamp has over 2100 hours and I'm in eco mode, so I can't complain.

Though that output level may seem low, I've also done a pretty extensive experiment in room-treatment. The perimeter is lined with a strange mix of various black "blackout" drapes, the area from screen to maybe 5 feet out is "boxed" with a mishmash of black velvet and fleece (whatever stuff I had laying about) and I borrowed some tricks from astronomy and placed side-to-side vertical baffles on the ceiling and floor. I just wanted to do a quick-and-dirty to see how it fared.

I like it. A lot! I did a very quick recal to levels, greyscale and RGBCMY. It needs another pass or two, but the image is gorgeous. I recorded "the Alps" from HDNet (a climbing expedition, good show) and the camera work as presented by the 8350 was just stunning. As I continue working the the 8350, it just keeps pulling rabbits out of the hat.

And of course, with all that blackout going on I can call it the Bat Cave.

Originally Posted by kaisergrendel

Sony, can you explain how ND filters help since they're designed to reduce light transmission evenly? I've been wondering about that for awhile.

Originally Posted by Charles R

The ND filter will darken the low and high end but your eyes tend to notice the improved low end (deeper blacks) but not notice (nearly as much) the deceased brightness (white level).

Originally Posted by kaisergrendel

Does the 8350 lens have filter threads? The specs don't seem to mention it

Originally Posted by michaelv

Does anyone run cable along the wall and ceiling with plastic cable organizer? Any picture for idea would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

Originally Posted by kaisergrendel

Question: Is there any way to double-secure the 8350? I'm placing it on a wall-mounted shelf and want to make sure the projector doesn't just come crashing down if the shelf by some stroke of bad luck falls. I'm thinking some kind of kensington type lock attached to a wall hook, or somesuch?

Originally Posted by lespurgeon

Screw through the shelf into one of the mounting holes?

Originally Posted by lespurgeon

If the shelf is secure, then it will never move.

Originally Posted by rcliff

The other day we had a momentary power outage and when I turned the 8350 back on I got a blue screen with a message "Error in auto iris

Originally Posted by rcliff

The other day we had a momentary power outage and when I turned the 8350 back on I got a blue screen with a message "Error in auto iris, contact Epson service provider". I turned it off and the lights on the PJ flashed red and fans went full blast. I pulled the power and plugged back in and it turned on and operated normally. Tonight when I turned it on I got the same error and had to hard power cycle again. Has anyone else seen this? Auto iris isn't even on. Not too happy at the moment and the PJ is only a couple of weeks old.

Originally Posted by 42Plasmaman

Mine does this about once every other month.
Power off the projector.
Unplug the power cables from the projector.
Wait 1 minute plug it back in.
Wait about 5 minutes and power back on.
If the error comes right back, call Epson and get an exchange.

Originally Posted by kaisergrendel

Not that I would know how to troubleshoot this, but was auto-iris on when the outage happened?

Originally Posted by Mikes2cents

I have never heard the iris on my 8350. Perhaps it is not working or I have a killer unit. Granted I have not tried that hard to hear it but I have tried all the settings and sometimes wonder what all the hullabaloo is about. The pic is great and that is all that matters to me.