Epson Launches Home Cinema 2040 and 2045 Projectors

The just announced Home Cinema 2040 and Home Cinema 2045 offer major feature and performance upgrades compared to the older 2000 series projectors. That combined with aggressive pricing makes for a really improved value proposition.

Home Cinema 2040 3LCD Home Entertainment Projector with 2200 color and white lumens.

The base Home Cinema 2040 has an official "street price" of $799 while the HC2045 comes in $50 higher at $849. They will be sold by a a small group of key e-tailers, as well as through retailers. In addition to these two full HD 1080p projectors, Epson simultaneously announced a new 720 HD projector, the Home Cinema 740 which will be covered in a different blog. Let's see what these two new low cost 1080p projectors bring to the party: