Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness Posted on October 5, 2008 By Art Feierman 1. Epson Home Cinema 720 Home Theater Projector Review - Projector Highlights:2. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Physical Tour - Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Physical Tour3. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector Review – Image Quality - Epson HC720 Home Cinema Projector: Skin Tones4. Home Cinema 720 Projector: Black Levels and Shadow Detail5. Epson HC720 Shadow Details6. Epson HC720 Shadow Details 2 - Now that's the type of results where we consider shadow detail so important7. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness8. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness 2 - Projector Overall Picture Quality9. Viewing – HDTV - Picture Quality - Bottom Line10. Home Theater Projector Review – General Performance - HC720 Menus - HC720 User Memory Settings11. HC720 Projector – Remote Control - HC720 Lens Throw and Lens Shift12. HC720 SDE and Rainbow Effect, Pixel Visibility13. HC720 Projector Brightness14. HC720 Projector – Light Leakage - HC720 Audible Noise Levels - HC720 Projector Screen Recommendations15. HC720 Projector Measurements and Calibration - Theater Black 1 mode: default settings except color temp dropped from default 7000K to 6500K. - Theater Black 1 final adjustments: Color Temperature 6500K, - And here are my final measurements for Theater Black 1 based on those settings: - Theater (I did not adjust) - Natural16. HC720 Projector Measurements and Calibration 2 - Living Room - Color Temp = Offset - And that yielded: - Dynamic Mode - Color Temp: 8000K17. HC720 Image Noise18. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector Warranty - Home Theater Projector Review: Epson Home Cinema 720 LCD Projector: Summary, Pros, Cons19. Epson HC720 vs Mitsubishi HC1500 and Optoma HD70. - Epson HC720 vs Sony AW15 - Epson Home Cinema 720 projector, Pros, Cons, andTypical Capabilities - Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Pros20. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Cons - Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Typical Capabilities - Epson Home Cinema 720 Summary: The Bottom Line21. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 Projector Specifications This Epson almost shouts out: “look how sharp my image is”. I normally point out that even the softest 1080p projector is far beyond the sharpest 720p projector at resolving detail and appearing sharp. With this Epson, that simply is less true. Sadly, I have a bit of a problem with the the sharpness images for the HC720. This is the first time I’ve delegated the cropping, resizing, and naming of the images to my daughter, who does a lot of my webwork. In the past, I’ve used Photoshop for all of that, which she doesn’t have yet. She’s using a more basic program, and I can tell you that, likely due to the resizing algorithms used, Photoshop retains more of the sharpness of the original. I’ll try to replace the DTS and Monitor images below shortly, with ones done in Photoshop. Even so, the Epson does at least as well, as the Panasonic competition. HC720 dtsPT-AX200U dts close largePT-AE2000U dts largeVPL-VW60 dts close largehc6000 dts logo close largePreviousNext The thumbnails below when clicked on, show a drastically cropped area of just the logo and dts-hd area. The thumbnails are for the following projectors: Top left: Epson Home Cinema 720, Top right: Panasonic PT-AX200U 2nd row (1080p projectors) left: Panasonic PT-AE2000U, middle: Sony VW60, right: Mitsubishi HC6000. 1. Epson Home Cinema 720 Home Theater Projector Review - Projector Highlights:2. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Physical Tour - Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Physical Tour3. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector Review – Image Quality - Epson HC720 Home Cinema Projector: Skin Tones4. Home Cinema 720 Projector: Black Levels and Shadow Detail5. Epson HC720 Shadow Details6. Epson HC720 Shadow Details 2 - Now that's the type of results where we consider shadow detail so important7. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness8. Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness 2 - Projector Overall Picture Quality9. Viewing – HDTV - Picture Quality - Bottom Line10. Home Theater Projector Review – General Performance - HC720 Menus - HC720 User Memory Settings11. HC720 Projector – Remote Control - HC720 Lens Throw and Lens Shift12. HC720 SDE and Rainbow Effect, Pixel Visibility13. HC720 Projector Brightness14. HC720 Projector – Light Leakage - HC720 Audible Noise Levels - HC720 Projector Screen Recommendations15. HC720 Projector Measurements and Calibration - Theater Black 1 mode: default settings except color temp dropped from default 7000K to 6500K. - Theater Black 1 final adjustments: Color Temperature 6500K, - And here are my final measurements for Theater Black 1 based on those settings: - Theater (I did not adjust) - Natural16. HC720 Projector Measurements and Calibration 2 - Living Room - Color Temp = Offset - And that yielded: - Dynamic Mode - Color Temp: 8000K17. HC720 Image Noise18. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector Warranty - Home Theater Projector Review: Epson Home Cinema 720 LCD Projector: Summary, Pros, Cons19. Epson HC720 vs Mitsubishi HC1500 and Optoma HD70. - Epson HC720 vs Sony AW15 - Epson Home Cinema 720 projector, Pros, Cons, andTypical Capabilities - Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Pros20. Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Cons - Epson Home Cinema 720 Projector: Typical Capabilities - Epson Home Cinema 720 Summary: The Bottom Line21. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 Projector Specifications Epson HC720 Shadow Details 2 Epson HC720 Home Theater Projector: Sharpness 2