Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour-2 Posted on January 22, 2010 By Art Feierman 1. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector - Overview2. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Review-2 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Highlights - Projector Lamp Life - Doubles as a Widescreen Business Projector - Audio Built In - SD Card Slot No More - USB Input3. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour - Appearance - Control Panel - Home Cinema 705HD Inputs - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Menus4. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour-2 - Home Cinema 705HD Remote Control5. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour - Home Cinema 705HD Lens Throw - Home Cinema 705HD Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens6. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality - Home Cinema 705HD Picture Quality - Out of the Box - Flesh Tones - Home Cinema 705HD Black Levels & Shadow Detail7. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-1 - Shadow Detail Performance8. 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Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Competitors-2 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Sanyo PLV-Z60 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Optoma HD65 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Epson Home Cinema 720 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. InFocus X9 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Optoma HD20, Mitsubishi HC3800 - Mitsubishi HC380020. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Warranty21. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Review Summary - Epson Home Cinema 705HD: Bottom Line22. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Review Summary-2 - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Pros - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Cons - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Typical Capabilities23. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD Projector Specifications Home Cinema 705HD Remote ControlClick to Enlarge.So close While Epson is using the same physically shaped remote control, it has some different buttons. From the top: The Power button is a small orange affair on the top left side of the remote control. You press once to power up, or twice to power down. Across from it (to the right) is a button labeled Search. Pressing it will have the Epson projector search the inputs and select the first active source it finds. Directly below those two buttons are six direct “source” buttons, including Computer, S-Video, (composite) Video, USB, HDMI, etc. That means you can take the memory card out of most digital cameras and plug it right in to the USB adapter. The next row has three buttons, from the left, an A/V mute (mutes picture, and also sound, if you are feeding sound into the projector, which does have a speaker). The middle button freezes the image on the screen. The right one has no function (more on this below). The next row has (from the left) Auto (the projector sets up the image for you), Aspect ratio, and Color Mode (which lets you toggle between the many picture modes). Gone from last year’s remote is the numeric keypad, used for things like security including locking the control panel – basically the type of feature not needed in a home projector. There’s also a green button with a ? on it. This brings up Epson’s interactive Help system, as discussed on the first page of the review. It’s a nice touch, as instead of just answering questions it lets you make the actual changes without having to leave the help system. I’ve always liked it, but at the same time, it’s rather thin, in terms of the areas of help. It would be much better if expanded to cover more topics, but it’s more interactive help than any of the competition offers. Below the Help button are the Volume up and down buttons. All that leaves are the menu controls at the bottom. There’s a small round Menu button to launch the menu system, and across from it, on the right, is the ESC button to take you back one level in the menus. Right below these two, you’ll find the classic navigation system in an oval pattern with up/down/left/right arrows and an Enter button located in the center. Click Image to EnlargeEpson claims a range for the remote of almost 20 feet. From using it, that’s very believable. I had no trouble bouncing the remote’s signal off of my screen, to the Epson projector for a round trip of about 25 feet. That covers it for the remote. Not bad, definitely functional, but as they say – “nothing to write home about”. Buttons could be larger, and hey, this may be a bright projector for the home, but a backlit remote is always appreciated by users. 1. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector - Overview2. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Review-2 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Highlights - Projector Lamp Life - Doubles as a Widescreen Business Projector - Audio Built In - SD Card Slot No More - USB Input3. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour - Appearance - Control Panel - Home Cinema 705HD Inputs - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Menus4. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour-2 - Home Cinema 705HD Remote Control5. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour - Home Cinema 705HD Lens Throw - Home Cinema 705HD Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens6. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality - Home Cinema 705HD Picture Quality - Out of the Box - Flesh Tones - Home Cinema 705HD Black Levels & Shadow Detail7. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-1 - Shadow Detail Performance8. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-29. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality310. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-4 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD - Overall Color & Picture Quality11. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality512. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-6 - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports13. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Image Quality-714. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Performance - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Brightness - Epson Home Cinema 705HD Sharpness15. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Performance1 - Light Leakage - Home Cinema 705HD Image Noise - Home Cinema 705HD Audible Noise16. Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector Calibration - Color Temperature - Basic Settings - RGB Settings17. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Projector Screens - General Screen Recommendations: 18. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Competitors - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Panasonic PT-AX200U - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Optoma HD7119. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Competitors-2 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Sanyo PLV-Z60 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Optoma HD65 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Epson Home Cinema 720 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. InFocus X9 - Epson Home Cinema 705HD vs. Optoma HD20, Mitsubishi HC3800 - Mitsubishi HC380020. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Warranty21. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Review Summary - Epson Home Cinema 705HD: Bottom Line22. Epson Home Cinema 705HD – Review Summary-2 - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Pros - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Cons - Home Cinema 705HD Projector: Typical Capabilities23. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD Projector Specifications Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour Epson Home Cinema 705HD Projector – Physical Tour