Epson Powerlite Pro Cinema G6550WU Special Features page 3

“360 Degree Operation” doesn’t mean you can mount the projector anyway you want.  You can have it place horizontally, vertically (pointing up or down), or in between. Think of the face of a clock. But you cannot skew it.  For example, you can have the projector on a 20 degree down angle, but you can’t tilt it so the left side is higher or lower than the right side.

That said, this Epson should work for the vast majority of non-horizontal positioning situations such as digital signage. Or presenting to ceilings, floors or screens mounted on angle. Use a number of these projectors with edge blending to fill a 120 degree curved display, project onto ceiling or floor, or even, thanks to the geometric correction, even project an image that appears partially on a wall, the rest on the floor.

There are relatively few projectors out there that can be mounted at crazy angles, due mostly to air circulation and heating issues.  It must be noted that solid state light engine projectors (lasers or LED) are more flexible in this regard, but the Epson should handle most real world situations. Being that flexible opens up many uses for a projector, again, in digital signage, and art exhibits, corporate lobbies, special events, concerts.

Epson G series projectors can be mounted with +/- 20% range, horizontally, or mount vertically, (i.e. pointing up to ceiling or down to the floor).  Picture a sports bar with a number of projectors up in the rafters pointing down at angles.  Perhaps two of them, using edge blending, might project a football game on the floor below? There are a lot of applications when folks start getting creative.

Epson’s been including similar capabilities in many of their install projectors for several years.  This Epson projector can talk to up to 32 computers on a network (perhaps in a classroom or training room), any 4 of those can be displayed on the screen at the same time in 4 quadrants (or any of the 32 can fill the entire screen.   Use this feature for collaboration or in the classroom.  Although we did not test this feature on this Epson, we did get the chance to do so a couple of years ago, on an older projector.

Call that one small part of the Epson Powerlite Pro G6550WU’s networking capabilities.