Shadow Detail Performance

Our main comparison uses the night train scene from Casino Royale. Look to the trees and shrubs on the right, especially just above the tracks. The first image is the Epson 8700UB, followed by the Home Cinema 8350, the Mitsubishi HC4000, the BenQ W6000, then Sony VPL-HW15, the Sharp XV-Z15000. I am impressed with the shadow detail. As I’ve never considered dark shadow detail a strength of the Epson projectors, it truly is a pleasant surprise, in that here’s a manufacturer who seems to successfully have corrected one of it’s minor performance issues. . The Home Cinema 8700UB does reveal as much detail as anything else out there, that I get to work with.

Bottom line: The Home Cinema 8700UB is, for its modest price, excellent at both black level performance, and, now, we’re pleased to say, also dark shadow detail. At black level performance, it has no equal near its price. It does rely on a dynamic iris for those superior blacks, but then, so does all the serious competition, except for the more expensive JVC projector.