Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Performance-2 Posted on October 7, 2013 By Art Feierman 1. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Projector Overview - Going Mobile with the HC3010e2. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review-2 - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Projector Highlights - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Special Features3. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review-3 - The Home Cinema 3010e - The Bottom Line:4. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Physical Tour - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Appearance - Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Input/Output - Home Cinema 3010 Menus - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Remote Control5. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Physical Tour-2 - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Lens Throw - Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens - Wide Screen6. 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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010e Projector Specifications Home Cinema 3010, Post Calibration, Best Mode-2That’s a very tight range, but with a slight dip at white (100 IRE), that will add an almost insignificant shift to red, just a touch of extra warmth. Mike adds this note: Using a gamma setting less than 2.4 results in gamma being too low for most viewing. There is a CMS, but it’s not really necessary as the CIE chart shows very good color balance. Below, the same frame taken with the same exposure so you can get a handle on the relative brightness and color aspects of most of the major modes. Of course, since the exposures are the same, the darker modes like Cinema (“best”) would look better properly exposed hc3010e_mode_auto_largehc3010e_mode_cinema_largehc3010e_mode_dynamic_largehc3010e_mode_livingroom_largehc3010e_mode_natural_largePreviousNext Epson Home Cinema 3010 3D Brightness We’ve mentioned the Optoma HD33, as the other, similarly priced 2D/3D home projector. It too is a bright projector, but no match for the Epson Home Cinema 3010. The image below shows the Optoma on the left, Epson on the right. It’s a huge difference in brightness. Of course, glasses and processing, also affects 3D brightness, but there is no contest at all. The Epson is dramatically brighter in 3D. The two projectors are closer in brightness in their best 3D modes (a 3D image from Ultimate Wave 3D Tahiti). Again, the Epson is on the right By comparison, 2D brightness is closer: Here are the two projectors again, this time in “best” 2D (the overexposure of the Epson is washing it out a bit. 1. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Projector Overview - Going Mobile with the HC3010e2. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review-2 - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Projector Highlights - Epson Home Cinema 3010e Special Features3. Epson Home Cinema 3010e Home Theater Projector Review-3 - The Home Cinema 3010e - The Bottom Line:4. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Physical Tour - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Appearance - Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Input/Output - Home Cinema 3010 Menus - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Remote Control5. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Physical Tour-2 - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Lens Throw - Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens - Wide Screen6. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Image Quality - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Out of the Box Picture Quality - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Flesh Tones - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Black Levels & Shadow Detail7. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Image Quality-1 - Shadow Detail Performance8. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Image Quality-2 - Black Level and Shadow Detail Performance: Home Cinema 3010 Projector - Bottom Line9. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Image Quality-3 - Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports, includine 3D10. 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Epson Home Cinema 3010 – Competitors16. Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Warranty17. Epson Home Cinema 3010 – Review Summary - The Very Bottom Line on the Home Cinema 3010 projector: - pson Home Cinema 3010 Projector: Pros and Cons18. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010e Projector Specifications Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Performance Epson Home Cinema 3010 Projector – Performance-3