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

Bright and clear picture, with very adjustable!

We installed this in a new media room weve built, and it has exceeded all our expectations. The picture quality is outstanding, far better than I expected even from a projector that touts 4K resolution. The bulb is also nice and bright, and the picture is easily visible even with the theater lighting turned all the way up in the room. We easily integrated the projector into a surround sound system, as well as a multiport HDMI switch to allow easy changes, and there were no issues at all from the Epson with handling the inputs/outputs. The projector was a little interesting to get mounted and aimed. Our mounting position was slightly off center, with a relatively short throw of 16 for a 110 screen. The on projector dials, and the digital controls were not wholly intuitive, so it took about an hour to get the screen dialed in where the image was crisp and properly square. We hit the adjustment limit a couple times as well, so it took some repeated adjustments in several places to get it there. That said, once it was set, its been two months and its been rock solid without any issues.

Writing this because sadly I didnt see it in the reviews. This projector looks like a projector from little big world in Mario. Its huge. And heavy. This is what I get for reading too many reviews focused on image quality. I didnt even take it out of the packaging just straight back to amazon lol.

I bought a brand new item, but the one delivered is refurbished. Its in the original box, but out of the original internal wrapping. Instruction manual missing, batteries missing, projector itself has signs of wear, plus hair and dust everywere. Also image is all blurry. So item is defective.

This projector is very good. We were pleased with the performance. We were able to make the screen very big. We were happy with the company. They are very popular with these projectors. It worked without a problem. It was a big increase in quality from our last one. So far so good.

Update: I upgraded my receiver to a Yamaha 385 and my HTPC graphics card to a Geforce 1650 and a couple 8k rated 3ft hdmi cables for the computer and my PS4. NOW I am running full 4k HDR signal from my computer and not surprisingly I had to re-calibrate the picture. It looked terrible with the settings I had set up for the 1080p SDR signal. Even resetting everything to default wasnt great. Heres what I ended up with: Brightness=44 Contrast=24 Color Saturation=55 Color Temp=8 GMCorrection=4 With the 4k HDR signal I did not need to adjust the RGBCMY levels at all, default values gave me a well balanced color chart (from calibration disc) with no color clipping at the high end like it did with the SDR signal. I still have my top 4 white levels turned down because theyre too bright, but I think I figured out how to deal with that better. Apparently 4k HDR projectors perform better with a lower gain grey-screen which would make blacks darker and help tone down the intensity of the white levels. I plan on upgrading to a Qualgear 120 High Contrast Gray screen at 0.9 Gain, with tensioners to keep the surface as flat as possible. I have a few areas of my screen that are not focused right, and I suspect it might be due to the wall not being truly flat. Also, its almost impossible to get as smooth of a surface as the tensioned screens using latex paint on a wall. So hanging a new low gain tensioned screen will give me multiple improvements at once as well as a bonus of maxing out my screen size potential at my given throw distance. Going from 104 to a 120 should be quite noticeably larger and hopefully make better use of this projectors incredibly bright image. In light of all this Ive bumped my rating from 4 to 5 stars. I absolutely love it and am glad I wend 3LCD over a new DLP. Even 1080p video upscaled on my computer looks far better than it did on my old 1080p DLP projector. Its considerably better than the projectors own 4k upscaling. Watching 4k HDR video is amazing! My wife didnt think she would notice the difference and I proved her wrong. She loves it too and now isnt as mad at me for spending so much on the upgrades. LOL... Original review for 1080 SDR input: Just got this a few days ago and decided to leave a review now that I have it all setup and calibrated. First of all my setup is in a smallish light-controlled home theater with a 104 DIY screen on the wall painted with a pure white matte latex that should provide about 1.0 gain, and surrounded with trim covered in black felt. Dark walls and a dark vaulted ceiling which extends far above the top of my screen. Projector throw distance is about 11 6. First impressions were just how much larger this unit is than my old DLP projector, easily more than twice as big and required me to purchase a new ceiling mount with arms capable of spanning about 14 diagonal for the mounting screw locations and supporting the roughly 15lbs of weight. I chose the QualGear PRB-717-WHT mount which fit my needs well and worked great on my vaulted ceiling. My mounting height was never right on my DLP projector which forced me to angle it a bit and use keystone correction to fix the out-of-square result. The problem with using keystone is that it does distort your image a little in order to make it appear square. This Epson projector has so much lens shift up and down and side to side that you ideally should not ever need to use keystone. I just kept adjusting the angle of the projector and shifting the image back onto my screen until I got the image all squared up, no keystone required! I bought a new 30ft fiber HDMI 2.0b cable to run from my receiver unit to the projector, which works well. However my receiver and my theater PC currently only support 1080p output. Now that I have a 4k HDR10 capable projector, I plan to shell out another $500 to upgrade my graphics card and receiver unit. So as a disclaimer, I have not yet tested this projector with a true 4k HDR signal. However its proven very adept at upscaling my 1080p signal with 4k enhancement that is clearly superior to my old 1080p DLP projector. Out of box settings were very impressive, but extremely bright and over-saturated in my short throw light-controlled theater. Even turning the projector down with ECO mode still had blaring bright whites and eye popping color saturation, specifically reds and blues. Calibrating the unit.... VERY FIRST THING TO DO: After getting projector mounted, adjusted and focused, and switched into ECO mode, you should do a panel alignment. This lets you accurately adjust the alignment between the red, green, and blue images on your screen and is critical to producing an accurate image and should be done before you adjust anything else. Green panel is not adjustable, you just have to adjust red and blue panels to align with the green one. I suggest switching the color mode to match which color you are adjusting rather than leaving the other color also showing. This will help you see where the lines are at. Adjust each corner first, then look around the screen at all the intersections for any misalignment until you can no longer see the red or blue lines diverging anywhere on the screen. For the rest of the calibrations, I used the AVS Calibration disc you can download from their website. First you set brightness using the flashing black bar screens, then adjust contrast with the flashing white/grey bar screen. Those will tune in your grey scale settings which are the basis of any image being displayed correctly and completely. Then you have to adjust your color settings. I did this with the Advanced> RBGCMY setting and the corresponding color bar chart from the calibration disc. Yellow and cyan bars were fine, showing clear delineation all the was up the scale. Red, green, blue, and magenta colors were clipped at the top bar and required reducing their saturation levels individually until the top bar had a clear delineation between it and the next bar. I didnt change Hue or Brightness settings (default is 50). Once these were all adjusted the resulting picture looked much more natural and balanced with full grey scale details from white all the way to the very deep blacks that this projector can display. I still had one issue though, the whites were unbearably bright. Eye scorching to the point that very bright scenes or bright objects in a dark scene where not comfortable to watch and would definitely lead to eye fatigue, not to mention how distracting it was to the rest of the image. LUCKILY, I found that this projector offers a way to control this intensity in a way I have not seen before. Under the White Balance settings, you have color temp which I set to 7, G-M Correction which I set to 0, Custom which I didnt touch, and finally Grayscale which is where you need to go to tone down the brightness of whites on the screen. This gives you 8 levels of white to adjust, 1 being the darkest and 8 being 100% white. I turned levels 6 thru 8 down to -50 (as far as you can go), and level 5 I set it to -20, 1 thru 4 I left at full brightness. This resulted in a dramatically more enjoyable viewing experience and reduced eye strain. Heres my what I ended up with for the main settings: Brightness: 53 Contrast: 7 Color Saturation: default (individual saturation set with RGBCMY settings for better saturation balance) Tint: default Sharpness: All 0 Color Temp: 7 GM Correction:0 Grayscale: levels 8-6 @ -50, level 5 @ -20, levels 1-4 @ 0 Noise Reduction:15 MPEG Noise Reduction: 2 Super-resolution and Detail Enhancement: default values RGBCMY saturation adjustments: R=30 G=40 B=30 C=50 M=30 Y=50. (default is 50) Conclusions: I am very happy with this projector so far and am glad that there are adequate adjustment settings to get it dialed in because it really was not acceptable with the out of the box settings. Im still not sure why the whites were so dang bright even in eco mode. White objects were almost blinding and made me feel like I had double vision and a hard time focusing on the screen. Luckily the greyscale settings helped fix that. It almost could use a setting lower than -50 for the top 3 white levels. I am absolutely loving the new level of detail and the complete lack of rainbow effect that I had experienced with the DLP projectors, its one of the main reasons I bought this Epson rather than a newer 4K DLP projector from Optoma. I am excited to get the rest of my system upgraded to HDR10 level so I can experience the full potential of this projector, but for now even with a 1080p input it is blowing my old DLP out of the water on picture quality.

Review after about 300 hours of use. This projector replaced a JVC DLP (rebranded BenQ). The projector is ceiling mounted. Screen is a 110 16:9 ALR. Room is sorta light controlled - windows flank the screen. Lighting in the room is via multiple track heads on both sides of the room. Walls are white, so light from the track heads bounce everywhere. Adjustability: The ceiling in my viewing room is low - the centerline of the lens is below the top of the screen. On the JVC, the only way to get this to work was with some extreme keystone adjustment. The Epson has some easily accessible knobs that made lens shift adjustment extremely easy - especially when working on something hanging over your head. The lens on the JVC was in the middle of the projector whereas the lens on the 3800 was offset to one side. The lens shift meant the I didnt have to mess around with moving the projector mount a few inches to the side. Theres a little play in the knobs that is a bit annoying at first but you get use to it quickly. The amount of lens shift is incredible making projector placement much less of a consideration. Brightness: The old projector was rated at 5000 lumens at full power - even in eco mode, that projector should haven been substantially brighter than the 3800, but I cant tell the difference. I would chalk that up to the improved contrast. No problem with viewing on an ALR screen with the lights dimmed to about 50%. Noise: yeah, its noisy. About on par with the JVC but the projector is mounted directly over my sofa. The noise only really stands out when you are listening for it or there is no dialogue/music. The exhaust louver is right by the lens - if the projector is behind your seating position, it might be more objectionable. The louver isnt pointed directly back at the screen but angled slightly to the side. Size: I was originally considering the 4000/4010, but again, I got a low ceiling and having a massive projector hanging over your head seemed like a bad idea. The 3800 was a bit bigger than I expected, but compared to the 4000/4010, its nothing. Mounting it was also pretty easy but the wider spacing between the mounting holes on the project did necessitate a bit of McGyvering on the projector mount. The bad: convergence on my 3800 is a mess. The picture seemed a bit softer on one side, but being lazy, I didnt bother trying to figure out what the issue was. The remote control has a nice pattern button which will display an alignment grid. That confirmed that something was wrong on one side of the screen, but again - lazy. The grid fuzzy grid lines on the left side of the screen were easily twice as wide as the nice and sharp grid lines on the right side. The fuzziness was mostly noticeable when playing video games. At first, I thought that it was an alignment issue and the projector wasnt perpendicular to the screen. Finally, when trying to avoid some household chores, I made the mistake of trying to get to the bottom of the issue. Several hours later after messing around with the projector mount alignment, then diving into the convergence menu, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing that I could do about it. If your a type A person, trying to do a point by point convergence adjustment is like being a hamster on a hamster wheel - you just cant stop. YMMV - my tip would be to check the projectors convergence when you get it. Maybe its just the luck of the draw. Since Im lazy, Im now outside of the Amazon replacement window and I dont feel like going thru the hassle of getting a warranty refurb from Epson. The projector is still usable but it bugs me now that Ive confirmed what the issue is and I can do nothing about it short of getting a replacement.

Fantastic picture and easy hook up

This Epson 3200 projector finds an excellent balance between price and performance. Of course, there are more expensive projectors with more features and better contrast ratios, but this one is an excellent choice for most people who want to casually watch movies or play games in a family room or outside on summer nights. This is not a truly native 4K projector. It uses a technology called pixel shifting to effectively double the resolution of a 1080p LCD. If you have a 1080p video source, pixel shifting will make the image just a little sharper, but the beauty of this projector is that it accepts a true 4K input which allows the pixel shifting technology to really shine. The picture quality and sharpness is amazing. When its in 4K mode with a 4K video source, it looks MUCH better than 1080p. Its not quite as good as a native 4K projector (which are still VERY expensive), but its surprisingly close to it. Contrast is pretty good in the proper conditions (a dark room), but suffers a bit if theres ambient light in the room. Youll have to pay more if you want a 100,000:1 or even 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio to get good blacks with some ambient light. There are two HDMI inputs, both of which support 4K HDR at 60fps, with full 10-bit HDR. Audio out is only a stereo mini jack, so if you want to play movies through your surround sound system youll have to take the audio from the source into your stereo, and just feed video to this projector. With some video players this may not be an option, so to solve this problem there are inexpensive HDMI audio splitters available on Amazon if you want to go this route. Just search for HDMI audio extractor. The projector is 3D capable but I dont have any 3D glasses so I cant rate how that works. It seems like 3D isnt being supported much these days, but if you have a 3D library and a set of glasses, its great that you can get some life out of them with this projector. The only downside to this projector is that the fan is pretty loud when the lamp is on full brightness. You wouldnt want to be sitting right next to it while watching a movie because the fan noise would be distracting. You can use ECO mode which reduces the brightness and reduces the fan noise if that suits your setup better. ECO mode reduces the power consumption from 386W to 291W, and also has the benefit of extending your lamp life from 3500 hours to 5000 hours. A replacement lamp (part V13H010L85) can be purchased for about $110, which is pretty reasonable. You can replace the lamp yourself fairly easily. The product manual explains how to do it step by step. Overall, this is an excellent quality projector from EPSON and youd be hard pressed to find a better image quality at this price point. The pixel shifting technology gives you about 80-90% of the quality of a true native 4K projector at a much more budget friendly price.

I started using a projector full time recently. My original one was inexpensive, but it was pretty good. I decided to upgrade to get one with more brightness. I wasn’t disappointed with my decision. It works great. I can even watch it with all my lights on in the room. Also, the remote works soooooo much better than the previous one.