Epson Home Cinema 710HD Projector – Performance

There’s not a whole lot of difference in brightness between three of the modes, and by any home projector measure, even the dimmest -Theater is more lumens than all but a few projectors can output in their brightest modes.  That is, we have a genuine light canon here, one that is geared to be a great match for less than ideal rooms – like that livingroom or bonus room, or maybe even a spare bedroom.  I’m talking rooms not optimized like a “home theater” cave would be. Of particular note, relating especially to all the images I’ve dropped into this review, is that we did most of the photos with ambient light coming in through my room’s mostly opened shutters, with the Home Cinema 710 HD set to Livingroom.  It’s not that it’s brighter than Theatre mode, as it is not significantly so.  The warmer 8,000+ range color balance tends to cut through the ambient light a lot better than the warmer Theater mode.  Images in the review are mostly shot in one or the other.  We did also do a number of Dyanmic mode images, and will typically indicate which those are.

As you can see, the drop in brightness from widest angle (projector closest to the screen) to telephoto, is less than 4%, which is essentially, barely detectable.   All else being equal, if someone was showing your 2553 lumens on the screen, and you closed your eyes for 5 seconds, and when you reopened them, if the brightness was down to 2435 lumens, there is virtually 0 chance you would notice any change at all.