So I just bought a new house, and the basement has a very nice dedicated home theater room with 8 movie style reclining chairs, projection set up, etc.  However old owner completely gutted the room except for the screen.  I think he had Atlantic Technology stuff in there before from pictures...

 Hello all,   I am looking to set up my first projector for my apartment, please bare my ignorance. I understand that it also depends on my room, but I'm not looking to set up anything too complicated. I want something that displays as clear as an HDTV. Is there a cheaper alternative than the...

I'm in the process of overhauling my home theater. I currently use a 50" LCD for viewing. I mentioned the idea of a 80" screen and a projector to my wife and she got very excited. I'm interpreting this as "You are allowed to buy a projector as long as you don't spend all of our house renovation...

I have what seems like a strange problem with the 3D picture from my projector. It was a recent refurbished replacement for my original 12 months old TW9100W (5020/6020) The projector is connected via wireless and an Oppo BD 93 player is connected directly to the transmitter via HDMI. We...

So i am a NOOB to the forum and theater room set up in general. I have been doing a lot of reading in the forum to help with setting up my room. There is a ton of information on the site, i have probably only scratch the surface. I am looking for some recommendations for surround speaker...

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 Continuing to explore my first HT build, I've become curious about pjs that support split-screen from two sources (not PiP, but two smaller, side-by-side images).  It looks like at least a few do, like the Pro8200 and the Epson 5020/5030/4030.  But I haven't found much good information about...

Hey guys, I bought the epson 5020 not long ago, and watched about 6 or 7 movies on it. Then I havent watched it for about 2 or 3 weeks and when i tried watching a movie today it turned off and the lamp and temp lights went red. the filter is clean so that is not the case. any ideas what...

It's a bit early, I know, but I'm wondering if I should expect the Epson 5020 to have a Black Friday deal or not. I'm not really sure if projectors tend to go on sale for it. Any thoughts? Lowest I see right now is $2377 and I'd rather buy sooner than later but not if it will save me a few...

 Hey hi,    I went to my local Best Buy tonight to see if I could see a demo of the 5020 or 5030 in 3D, but there was no 5030 (expected) and the demo 5020 went out the door yesterday for $2399.  However, to my great surprise they did have a 4030 up and running ($2499).  I had actually gone to...

 I am seeing a lot of posts about the Epson 5030, but has anyone directly compared it with the 5020 for 2-D viewing?    Is the picture that much sharper?   Is the Iris less noisy?   or is it time to bargain hunt a 5020 because there really isn't that much if any difference unless you like...

New to the site. Looking to finally make a purchase on a new projector. After reviewing specs/reviews/forums I'm still quite confused. I'm looking for an excellent projector for movies/tv that will be utilized periodically (20%) of the time for Gaming. I'm really stoked to play GTA5 on the...

I had a JVC RS40 which I used together with a Da-Lite 110" High Power screen. I have had this idea that bright projectors such as the recent Epson/Panasonic ones (or even DLPs such as W7000) which have lower native contrast can still generate a 2D image that can match that of a JVC if they are...

The three projectors I have owned have all been Panasonic. I have not once in 10 years been bothered by the screendoor effect, even though I sit just 1 x screen width away (slightly more than 2 m at 16:9). Yesterday the lamp of my PT-AE3000 died on me (while watching the final season of BB!)...

 I have a dedicated room but my issue is that my overall room length is 13 ft which would probably leave me about a throw distance of 11 ft.  I'd really like to have about a 100" screen if possible.  I was looking at the epson 5020 but the rep at Magnolia told me for that distance I should go...

Hello I purchased a 5020 a few weeks ago. I had a ISF calibrator come out to calibrate it. He mentioned it only allowed 2 point calibration as it did not have controls to do a 10 point calibration. When he finished it looks good. I noticed a special on a vide processor at Spectra Cal. I...

Good thing I waited before I bought a new projector because I knew that new projector announcements would be coming out now--a-days. And out they did! The new Epson projector means that the 5020 will be available for under $2K before long. Sweet

I only ran 2 hdmi cables to my projector mount position and wanted to use the 5020ub split screen. I hooked my htpc to my 2nd hdmi and used a hdmi to vga converter. So now i can split screen and watch the tv and surf the web at the same time. Any other work arounds out there that other folks...

I'm either going to get a used/older higher end 2D projector like the JVC RS1, or a new cheaper 3D projector like the W1070. Today I went to a video shop to demo a 3D projector to see what I thought of it. I've have not seen any of the Avatar era 3D films in the theaters so I didn't know what...

I'm looking at maybe the epson 5020 or 6020 for a future finished basement. If mounted on the back wall my throw would be around 15' from lense to screen (could be a bit less then that). Would I be ok with that distance on a 120 inch 16:9 screen or would I be better off mounting it from the...