![]() ![]() When projecting 16:9 content, you’ll end up with a letterbox on the left and right, so that football game or HDTV program will use less of the screen. As a result, serious movie fans may wish to go with a wide screen for the purpose of filling the entire screen with a Cinemascope type movie. Most movies, less some of those made for TV and those from the Casablanca era – and many animated films, are typically much wider than HDTV. Many might watch movies at night – if less than a fully darkened room, with “best mode” Digital Cinema with the filter in place, and Using Bright Cinema or Natural without the filter in place for REC709 color during the daytime when more ambient light is present. I think the option with/without a filter, is great because it allows many of us to move projectors out of a dedicated theater. It’s not as bright, it’s too slow for serious gaming, can’t match black levels, lacks great placement flexibility, etc, but it is worth its price. That BenQ is half the list price and is a favorite, but it is definitely a step down overall. Interestingly BenQ’s HT3550 – my last review, has added a “cinema filter” so offers the same type of brighter, with no P3/less bright with. By the way, if you go with a really good laser DLP UHD projector, you can find P3 or close, but those typically run $3K to $6K. I love that you get the choice, unlike the competition. While lamp based DLP competitors can barely get to REC709 (the older color standard and a lot don’t even make it to that!) P3 offers a 50% larger color range, delivering color quality comparable to what the better digital projectors at your local theater complex deliver! True, there are some trade-offs: for instance, the Cinema filter drops the projector’s brightness by about 40%.įrom that perspective, you get to choose either more brightness or better, P3 color. (Eric says they got extremely close – closer than any other lamp based projector we’ve calibrated.) Tha tis thanks to a Cinema filter that slides into place when you demand the best possible color. The Epson Home Cinema 5050UB supports and achieves the DCI/P3 color standard. That means there’s a legit trade-off where you don’t want to go brighter in the mid-range (and lower ranges), because you want more “pop” to the picture – more wow – the stuff HDR promises. Remember that the more mid-range brightness we adjust into the image, the less “HDR” it is. You will set yours for what you like the best. (He may also like it a little brighter in the mid-range). Scott reports he’s working with settings of 2 or 3. That means he needs over twice the brightness hitting his screen for it to seem as bright as my setup. By comparison, when chatting with Scott G, he’s got a huge – 160″ diagonal screen with only 1.0 gain. I like 7 or 8, on my 1.3 gain 124″ screen. You still have a manual control (from 0-15 – default is 8. The dim is gone, thanks to some auto tone mapping. In other words: The Home Cinema 5050UB, starts out already better than even the last 5040UB update. The third version of the 5040UB’s firmware update for HDR puts it a lot closer to the current 5050UB than the original version on the 5040UB, but there is still a nice improvement going to the 5050UB, which has me very excited (I’m doing a lot of watching, having logged over 2600 hours on the Epson HC5040UB I have here as my “reference.” We took the 5040UB’s image with the original firmware – very dark. The photo player above only has two images – comparing similar frames from Ghostbusters (2016). By Epson’s 3rd iteration it was looking very good, with me adding only a slight amount of extra brightness to the lower end, via gamma (EOTF) settings. The tendency of 1st gen HDR projectors has definitely been dark or dim HDR content. ![]() That third one was particularly effective. The older 5040UB which launched pretty much with the advent of 4K HDR on Blu-ray UHD disc, has had 3 firmware updates, each focused on improving HDR. You will find that in X-Boxes, but few (I think) consumer TVs at this time. The third method is DolbyVision, which is hardware based. I assume Netflix, Prime and others will want a decent installed base of “TVs” that can handle it. With projectors, at least, it’s only been about a year since anyone has supported HLG. that I have watched have all lacked HDR, but I expect to see a shift over the next couple of years – likely sooner than later. It is the same one used on BluRay UHD discs, and is found in uses elsewhere.įor broadcast, and I believe most streaming, a second “software” based HDR called HLG, or Hybrid Log Gamma, is utilized. ![]() Everyone supports HDR10, so this is the primary HDR standard that most people are talking about today. ![]()
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