Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-8 Posted on November 1, 2010 By Art Feierman 1. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Highlights - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Overview2. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Review-2 - Home Cinema 8700UB Lamp Life - Epson Super-Resolution - 2.1:1 Zoom Lens3. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector - Appearance - Home Cinema 8700UB Control Panel - Input/Output4. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour-25. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour-3 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Remote Control - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Lens Throw6. Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens7. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Out of the Box Picture Quality - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector - Flesh Tones8. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-2 - What is all this fuss about black levels9. 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Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Brightness - Lumen Output and Color Temp at 100 IRE (mid zoom): - Effect of zoom on lumen output (Dynamic mode): - Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration – Best mode): THX17. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance-2 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Sharpness18. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance-3 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB: Bottom Line Sharpness - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Sharpness 2 - Light Leakage - Image Noise - Audible Noise19. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Calibration and Settings - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Color Temperature - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Basic Settings - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Post Calibration Grayscale: THX mode 20. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Calibration and Settings - RGB Settings - Brightest Modes21. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Projector Screens - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Screen Recommendations22. 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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Specifications Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV Sports 2The Epson has done a great job filling all 128 inches diagonal of my screen, this weekend, with plenty of different lighting scenarios. Put this projector on a positive gain (say 1.4) 100 inch screen, and it’s going to start looking almost LCDTV bright for your sports… Here are a series of images to show relative brightness in different modes, and different ambient light situations. Using the same image as above, below are Dynamic, Livingroom, and THX modes, using the same exposure, so it shows you relative brightness differences. For these pictures the room lighting was low – one of the shades only open about a foot, (as seen to the right) letting sunlight in,, plus shutters to the right of the screen partially open, plus the usual leakage around each of the shades. In reality the room isn’t that dark. I could sit in my chair there, and read a newspaper, though more light would be better (for the screen image to not be blown out, the correct exposure makes the room much darker than it is.: Let’s throw most of the “kitchen sink” at the Epson, by opening up more windows to let more sunlight in. Opening one door shade most of the way, and the other partially, lets in a lot of light, with sunlight running across the medium light carpeting: The Epson’s image (filling the full 128″ inch diagonal), is significantly washed out (below) by all that ambient light. Oh, it’s still watchable – but only if you have no better choices. Closing the more opened shade to to be open as much as the one next to it, though, provides a more than sufficiently good looking image. Her’es the image with the windows as shown above That’s a pretty impressive drop in brightness from the two bright modes to “best” movie mode. (It’s more of a drop than most projectors, because Epson places an color filter into the lightpath in best mode, for better color, but less lumens. I should advise you that the Epson has three modes of creative frame interpolation, for motion smoothing. I always use the low setting for sports. It’s fine, and works! I don’t play with the higher settings. I’ll leave that to you. Start with the #1 setting. Try 2 and 3. If you like the additional affects, go for it. I have been very pleased with the Epson for both sports and high quality digital content. All together, I’ve now spent about 40 hours with the Epson, and it has been most satisfying! 1. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Review - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Highlights - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Overview2. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Review-2 - Home Cinema 8700UB Lamp Life - Epson Super-Resolution - 2.1:1 Zoom Lens3. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector - Appearance - Home Cinema 8700UB Control Panel - Input/Output4. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour-25. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Physical Tour-3 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Remote Control - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Lens Throw6. Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens7. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Out of the Box Picture Quality - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector - Flesh Tones8. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-2 - What is all this fuss about black levels9. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-3 - black levels comparision10. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-4 - black levels comparision11. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-5 - Shadow Detail Performance - Epson 8700UB comparision12. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-5 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB - Overall Color & Picture Quality13. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-6 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports14. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-7 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV Sports15. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-8 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV Sports 216. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Brightness - Lumen Output and Color Temp at 100 IRE (mid zoom): - Effect of zoom on lumen output (Dynamic mode): - Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration – Best mode): THX17. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance-2 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Sharpness18. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance-3 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB: Bottom Line Sharpness - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Sharpness 2 - Light Leakage - Image Noise - Audible Noise19. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Calibration and Settings - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Color Temperature - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Basic Settings - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Post Calibration Grayscale: THX mode 20. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Calibration and Settings - RGB Settings - Brightest Modes21. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Projector Screens - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Screen Recommendations22. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Competitors - Home Cinema 8700UB vs. Epson Home Cinema 8350 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. HC6800, HC700023. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Competitors2 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. Sanyo PLV-Z4000 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. BenQ W600024. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Competitors3 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. Sharp XV-Z1500025. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Competitors4 - Home Cinema 8700UB vs. JVC DLA-RS15 and DLA-HD250 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. Sony VPL-HW1526. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Competitors5 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. Panasonic PT-AE4000 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB vs. LG CF181D27. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Warranty28. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Review Summary - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector - The Bottom Line29. Epson Home Cinema 8700UB – Review Summary-2 - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Pros - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Cons - Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector: Typical Capabilities30. Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8700UB Projector Specifications Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Image Quality-7 Epson Home Cinema 8700UB Projector – Performance