Epson Home Cinema 1440 Projector Review – Calibration Info

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.

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.

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.