Comments on: Epson’s Home Cinema 3020 and 3020e – Their new low cost 3D projectors

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:41:26 +0000

Greetings dbott1 (David?), Yes, the 5020 (and 3020, 6020 projectors as well) supports 1080/24. They also support the 3D versions. -art

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:25:32 +0000

Art,

Does the 5020 support 1080/24p?

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:05:23 +0000

Ashok, they do not. Epson switched from IR to RF. I don’t see any way to deal with that. I’m meeting with Epson at CES, and plan to discuss. I sent them a recent email perhaps 2 weeks ago, suggesting that they do something nice for 3010 / 5010 owners who have switched to the newer projectors. Of course, most people doing that – say going from a 3010 or 5010 to the 5020, probably will be selling their older projector, and most likely the buyer will want the 3D glasses… It would be cool, though (as I will suggest), that anyone doing that can send in their old glasses for the new ones. That would not be beyond the scope of what Epson could do. Their concern, if anything is probably longer term. Few will have upgraded in just one year. Many may upgrade over 2 or 3 years. But, I’m also thinking that they could do a trade in with old glasses, and $40 per pair, or something like that. Still a bargain compared to new glasses.

We shall see! -art

By: Ashok

Ashok — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:03:05 +0000

Hi Art feierman,
Please let me know if the glasses of 5010 works with 5020 and backwords

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:22:59 +0000

I am looking to get a projector for a dedicated theater room. I would much rather get a projector double the cost but all the stuff that goes along with a movie room is more than i excpected. I am looking for something in this price range now, comparing the BenQ, Acer, 8700UB (referb for same cost) ect. Is this my best option? My only other experience with projectors is a panny 900. My throw is 16.5 feet, 100% light controlled room, lens shift not necessary. Not to put you on the spot but for $1500. +/- with my room what would Mr. Art get!
Thanks
Buck

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:23:20 +0000

Alex, correct, Epson has said to me that lag times are noticeably improved. I’m expecting something better than 50 ms. How much better – I don’t know. -art

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:09:28 +0000

The issue with the lag in last year’s models is that all of the video processing was hardware-routed through the CFI-3D chip – including for 2D content – which added about 40ms of additional lag to the video. This hardware design was the reason why the issue could not be corrected via a firmware update. Epson have promised that this design will be updated this year, but I guess only time will tell.

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:22:53 +0000

Yes to less crosstalk, backward compatible, I don’t think so, but since I have a 5010 here, and one of the new ones arrives in a week, I’ll see if the old glasses work with the new, and the new with the old. But, don’t expect the new ones to work with the old, because they are RF. It’s possible that Epson could support both RF and IR, so that they could work with the old glasses.. We shall see. -art
PS. I believe the Panasonic’s are RF as well, I suspect they will be compatible. That too, I’ll advise of in the reviews. -art

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:02:40 +0000

Per Epson the 3020 models should also have lower lag. As to the HC5020 projectors, they will be identical to the 6020 in that regard. I don’t know what it is about Epson’s inherent design of the 5010 last year resulted in rather weak lag time numbers relative to serious high speed gamers.

However, they heard the message – that they needed to improve a good deal just to be decently fast enough. How good? Don’t know yet, but either a 3020 or a 5020 is supposed to arrive here, by Oct 1. I’ll do a basic lag time test using my macbook pro, and report it in my real, “first look” blog. BTW I don’t know how precise a matchbook pro is, for these measurements, so the projectors will also go to one of our gaming-projector-bloggers, so they can remeasure, and do battle using the projector. -art

By: Elliott Hutchcraft

Elliott Hutchcraft — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:53:51 +0000

Just curious if you think all the Epsons might have lower lag, or if you think it is only the 6020. I almost bought one last year for my theater room, but it is also my game room, so that would not have worked well for me.