Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Calibration Info Posted on December 28, 2015 By Art Feierman 1. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review - Home Cinema 1440 Projector Overview - Home Cinema 1440 Highlights2. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Special Features - HC1440: MHL on HDMI 1 - HC1440 Projector: Quick Setup - Home Cinema 1440 Input Lag Results for Gaming - Split Screen - Side by Side Viewing - Big Audio - 3D - Not with this projector - Warranty and Support - Home Cinema 1440 Eco features - Networking and Crestron RoomView3. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review: Hardware Tour - Hardware Overview - Home Cinema 1440 Lens Throw - HC1440 Control Panel - Home Cinema 1440 Inputs and Connectors4. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector: Hardware 2 - Epson Home Cinema 1440 Remote Control - Epson HC1440 Menus with Descriptions - Bottom Line on Hardware5. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector – Picture Quality - HC1440 Out of the box color - Epson's Four Picture Modes - Home Cinema 1440 Projector - Handling Skin Tones - Black Level and Dark Shadow Detail Performance: Epson HC14406. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Picture Quality 2 - HDTV and Sports on the HC1440 - Movie Viewing with the HC1440 - Overall Picture Quality7. Home Cinema 1440 Projector – Performance - Home Cinema 1440 Brightness by Mode - Eco Mode, Lens Position - Home Cinema 1440 Sharpness - Image Noise - HC1440 Audible Noise8. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Calibration Info - Basic Adjustments to Default Picture Settings9. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Summary - HC1440 Overall Value Proposition - HC1440 Projector: The Picture - A Light Canon for your "Bright Room" - Home Cinema 1440 Projector: Pros and Cons10. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1440 – Specifications and Brochure HOME CINEMA 1440 CALIBRATION INFORMATION: Color Temp in different modes, Adjustments to General Settings Basic Adjustments to Default Picture Settings Header Content Adjustment Bright Cinema Dynamic Cinema Game Contrast -2 -3 -1 -1 Brightness 0 1 1 1 C. Saturation (0) Tint (0) Color Temp 1 2 1 0 Auto Iris High Speed High Speed High Speed High Speed Gamma (0) Numbers in () are the defaults, if an area is blank, use the default setting All other settings at defaults Auto Iris is off Zoom lens is at mid-point Lamp mode on Normal – full power – (unless noted otherwise) As the Epson HC1440 is a projector that starts out with really good color, and because it’s more of a bright room home “entertainment” projector than one designed for a dedicated home theater, I made the call not to perform a full calibration. Thus, there is no “subscriber only” Advanced Calibration page. But Mike did take a full set of measurements. The first table (above) shows his recommended basic settings for each mode. The second, below is a repeat of the lumens brightness table on the previous page, but we’ve added the color temp measured for white (100 IRE). The desired color temp, of course, is 6500K. so that all of these modes are close. HC1440 Brightness, by Color Mode (mid-point on zoom) Mode Lumens Color Temp (100IRE) Dynamic 4722 6339 Bright Cinema 3623 6861 Cinema 3713 6374 Game 3541 6867 Finally, the last table shows the actual color temp measurements for each IRE (from dark gray to white) across the range for the Cinema mode. HC1440 Color Measurements (of Cinema mode) by IRE 100 IRE 6861K 90 IRE 6824K 80 IRE 6750K 70 IRE 6711K 60 IRE 6660K 50 IRE 6591K 40 IRE 6573K 30 IRE 6469K 20 IRE 6647K That gives you a pretty good idea of how accurate the color is. It is, in fact measuring closer to the desired 6500K than some far more expensive projectors with THX modes! What we didn’t do is adjust each individual primary and secondary color. If this projector was calibrated fully, the color temp would get a very minimal adjustment if any (probably blue gain adjusted downward by 1), and that would be a minimal adjustment to the upper brightness ranges to reduce color temp by only a couple/few hundred degrees Kelvin (from mostly around 6700K down to the target 6500K. 1. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review - Home Cinema 1440 Projector Overview - Home Cinema 1440 Highlights2. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Special Features - HC1440: MHL on HDMI 1 - HC1440 Projector: Quick Setup - Home Cinema 1440 Input Lag Results for Gaming - Split Screen - Side by Side Viewing - Big Audio - 3D - Not with this projector - Warranty and Support - Home Cinema 1440 Eco features - Networking and Crestron RoomView3. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review: Hardware Tour - Hardware Overview - Home Cinema 1440 Lens Throw - HC1440 Control Panel - Home Cinema 1440 Inputs and Connectors4. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector: Hardware 2 - Epson Home Cinema 1440 Remote Control - Epson HC1440 Menus with Descriptions - Bottom Line on Hardware5. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector – Picture Quality - HC1440 Out of the box color - Epson's Four Picture Modes - Home Cinema 1440 Projector - Handling Skin Tones - Black Level and Dark Shadow Detail Performance: Epson HC14406. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Picture Quality 2 - HDTV and Sports on the HC1440 - Movie Viewing with the HC1440 - Overall Picture Quality7. Home Cinema 1440 Projector – Performance - Home Cinema 1440 Brightness by Mode - Eco Mode, Lens Position - Home Cinema 1440 Sharpness - Image Noise - HC1440 Audible Noise8. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Calibration Info - Basic Adjustments to Default Picture Settings9. Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Summary - HC1440 Overall Value Proposition - HC1440 Projector: The Picture - A Light Canon for your "Bright Room" - Home Cinema 1440 Projector: Pros and Cons10. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1440 – Specifications and Brochure Home Cinema 1440 Projector – Performance Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Summary