Epson Home Cinema 3200 4K PRO-UHD 3-Chip Projector with HDR

Bright and clear picture, with very adjustable!

Picture is very clear on our wall even without a screen. Sound quality is actually impressive. Greet purchase love it. We have this on our Xbox too which is amazing.

I thought it was going to be subpar… Ended up being superior!

Came with Epson Certified Refurbished sticker on the top. Sadly, focus uniformity was poor and it wasnt any brighter than my 2200-lumens HT1075 with 3K hours on the bulb. I will say it was very quiet.

We are very happy with our purchase. We painted our white wall to a light grey to use as our projector screen and it works very well. A massive upgrade from our previous short throw projector. If you’re looking for a home projector to stream movies or play games, this is a good buy.

Im new to projectors. Only have a cheap $200 one to compare it to. Picture is sharp, very bright, works well in room even when the window shades are open. No complaints. Good value for the money.

Update: I upgraded my receiver to a Yamaha 385 and my HTPC graphics card to a Geforce 1650 and a couple 8k rated 3ft hdmi cables for the computer and my PS4. NOW I am running full 4k HDR signal from my computer and not surprisingly I had to re-calibrate the picture. It looked terrible with the settings I had set up for the 1080p SDR signal. Even resetting everything to default wasnt great. Heres what I ended up with: Brightness=44 Contrast=24 Color Saturation=55 Color Temp=8 GMCorrection=4 With the 4k HDR signal I did not need to adjust the RGBCMY levels at all, default values gave me a well balanced color chart (from calibration disc) with no color clipping at the high end like it did with the SDR signal. I still have my top 4 white levels turned down because theyre too bright, but I think I figured out how to deal with that better. Apparently 4k HDR projectors perform better with a lower gain grey-screen which would make blacks darker and help tone down the intensity of the white levels. I plan on upgrading to a Qualgear 120 High Contrast Gray screen at 0.9 Gain, with tensioners to keep the surface as flat as possible. I have a few areas of my screen that are not focused right, and I suspect it might be due to the wall not being truly flat. Also, its almost impossible to get as smooth of a surface as the tensioned screens using latex paint on a wall. So hanging a new low gain tensioned screen will give me multiple improvements at once as well as a bonus of maxing out my screen size potential at my given throw distance. Going from 104 to a 120 should be quite noticeably larger and hopefully make better use of this projectors incredibly bright image. In light of all this Ive bumped my rating from 4 to 5 stars. I absolutely love it and am glad I wend 3LCD over a new DLP. Even 1080p video upscaled on my computer looks far better than it did on my old 1080p DLP projector. Its considerably better than the projectors own 4k upscaling. Watching 4k HDR video is amazing! My wife didnt think she would notice the difference and I proved her wrong. She loves it too and now isnt as mad at me for spending so much on the upgrades. LOL... Original review for 1080 SDR input: Just got this a few days ago and decided to leave a review now that I have it all setup and calibrated. First of all my setup is in a smallish light-controlled home theater with a 104 DIY screen on the wall painted with a pure white matte latex that should provide about 1.0 gain, and surrounded with trim covered in black felt. Dark walls and a dark vaulted ceiling which extends far above the top of my screen. Projector throw distance is about 11 6. First impressions were just how much larger this unit is than my old DLP projector, easily more than twice as big and required me to purchase a new ceiling mount with arms capable of spanning about 14 diagonal for the mounting screw locations and supporting the roughly 15lbs of weight. I chose the QualGear PRB-717-WHT mount which fit my needs well and worked great on my vaulted ceiling. My mounting height was never right on my DLP projector which forced me to angle it a bit and use keystone correction to fix the out-of-square result. The problem with using keystone is that it does distort your image a little in order to make it appear square. This Epson projector has so much lens shift up and down and side to side that you ideally should not ever need to use keystone. I just kept adjusting the angle of the projector and shifting the image back onto my screen until I got the image all squared up, no keystone required! I bought a new 30ft fiber HDMI 2.0b cable to run from my receiver unit to the projector, which works well. However my receiver and my theater PC currently only support 1080p output. Now that I have a 4k HDR10 capable projector, I plan to shell out another $500 to upgrade my graphics card and receiver unit. So as a disclaimer, I have not yet tested this projector with a true 4k HDR signal. However its proven very adept at upscaling my 1080p signal with 4k enhancement that is clearly superior to my old 1080p DLP projector. Out of box settings were very impressive, but extremely bright and over-saturated in my short throw light-controlled theater. Even turning the projector down with ECO mode still had blaring bright whites and eye popping color saturation, specifically reds and blues. Calibrating the unit.... VERY FIRST THING TO DO: After getting projector mounted, adjusted and focused, and switched into ECO mode, you should do a panel alignment. This lets you accurately adjust the alignment between the red, green, and blue images on your screen and is critical to producing an accurate image and should be done before you adjust anything else. Green panel is not adjustable, you just have to adjust red and blue panels to align with the green one. I suggest switching the color mode to match which color you are adjusting rather than leaving the other color also showing. This will help you see where the lines are at. Adjust each corner first, then look around the screen at all the intersections for any misalignment until you can no longer see the red or blue lines diverging anywhere on the screen. For the rest of the calibrations, I used the AVS Calibration disc you can download from their website. First you set brightness using the flashing black bar screens, then adjust contrast with the flashing white/grey bar screen. Those will tune in your grey scale settings which are the basis of any image being displayed correctly and completely. Then you have to adjust your color settings. I did this with the Advanced> RBGCMY setting and the corresponding color bar chart from the calibration disc. Yellow and cyan bars were fine, showing clear delineation all the was up the scale. Red, green, blue, and magenta colors were clipped at the top bar and required reducing their saturation levels individually until the top bar had a clear delineation between it and the next bar. I didnt change Hue or Brightness settings (default is 50). Once these were all adjusted the resulting picture looked much more natural and balanced with full grey scale details from white all the way to the very deep blacks that this projector can display. I still had one issue though, the whites were unbearably bright. Eye scorching to the point that very bright scenes or bright objects in a dark scene where not comfortable to watch and would definitely lead to eye fatigue, not to mention how distracting it was to the rest of the image. LUCKILY, I found that this projector offers a way to control this intensity in a way I have not seen before. Under the White Balance settings, you have color temp which I set to 7, G-M Correction which I set to 0, Custom which I didnt touch, and finally Grayscale which is where you need to go to tone down the brightness of whites on the screen. This gives you 8 levels of white to adjust, 1 being the darkest and 8 being 100% white. I turned levels 6 thru 8 down to -50 (as far as you can go), and level 5 I set it to -20, 1 thru 4 I left at full brightness. This resulted in a dramatically more enjoyable viewing experience and reduced eye strain. Heres my what I ended up with for the main settings: Brightness: 53 Contrast: 7 Color Saturation: default (individual saturation set with RGBCMY settings for better saturation balance) Tint: default Sharpness: All 0 Color Temp: 7 GM Correction:0 Grayscale: levels 8-6 @ -50, level 5 @ -20, levels 1-4 @ 0 Noise Reduction:15 MPEG Noise Reduction: 2 Super-resolution and Detail Enhancement: default values RGBCMY saturation adjustments: R=30 G=40 B=30 C=50 M=30 Y=50. (default is 50) Conclusions: I am very happy with this projector so far and am glad that there are adequate adjustment settings to get it dialed in because it really was not acceptable with the out of the box settings. Im still not sure why the whites were so dang bright even in eco mode. White objects were almost blinding and made me feel like I had double vision and a hard time focusing on the screen. Luckily the greyscale settings helped fix that. It almost could use a setting lower than -50 for the top 3 white levels. I am absolutely loving the new level of detail and the complete lack of rainbow effect that I had experienced with the DLP projectors, its one of the main reasons I bought this Epson rather than a newer 4K DLP projector from Optoma. I am excited to get the rest of my system upgraded to HDR10 level so I can experience the full potential of this projector, but for now even with a 1080p input it is blowing my old DLP out of the water on picture quality.

This is a TERRIFIC projector. Im a trial lawyer, and I bought it to display documents to the jury on a screen at trial. The old projector made it hard to tell whether someone had initialed a document or not. This one, by contrast, made the evidence clear and convincing, as we say in my line of work. Youll love it. You will also need to figure out some way to carry it around, because it is a big mother, but worth the heft.

Super nice projector but I am returning. Seems to have an extremely annoying brightness shifting during scenes. Ive tried the different color modes, Ive tried the different Image Enhancement modes. Ive also tried searching through the menus to see if there is anything that would cause the brightness shifting. Cant figure it out, sad Im returning it. Great picture quality and nice and quiet on Cinema and Natural setting.

Ive used a number of projectors over the years, getting a new one every 2-3 years as the upgrades come out. This is my first 4k projector, but keep in mind this is not true 4k but uses pixel shifting to create a more detailed image. The true 4k projectors start upwards of $5k and get closer to $10k when you factor in HDR, etc. This bridges the gap between 1080p and 4k projectors, and is a great option for multipurpose rooms (e.g. room with windows, family room, etc). I am using this projector in my finished third floor with windows. I have a 50 HDTV on the wall for the kids, and installed a recessed 120 Elite tab tensioned screen with full tower 5.2.2 Atmos speaker setup for everything else (movies). I bought the Epson ceiling mount, which fits perfectly and is very solid. This PJ is big and heavy, so do NOT cheap out on the mount! Its got lens shift and keystone adjustments, so if you are not dead on center or your screen isnt 100% straight, dont worry. The throw distance can be found on projector central, which has a great calculator when you are trying to figure out what size screen you can get and where to mount the projector. I ran a Ruipro 4k HDMI 2.2 cable to ensure I was getting all features available (not all HDMI cables will transmit 4k, Dolby Atmos, HDR, etc). The picture is very bright, and it has 4 setting profiles to select from. To be honest, all the images looked washed out to me, and the blacks are not remotely close to black - more dark gray. I adjusted the picture quite a bit, added a lot of color and increased contrast. Its much better, but still has terrible blacks and poor contrast. I would honestly recommend the 3800 over this due to the increase in contrast if you are very, very serious about image quality. The PJ is relatively quiet except on high settings, where it gets quite loud. Due to the fact that its mounted directly above my head, there is no way I will ever put it on that setting. Mine is on medium, which is still louder than Id like but tolerable. It comes on quickly and shuts down quickly, which is nice (my BenQ took forever). This is my first LCD PJ, as Ive always had BenQ DLP PJs. BenQ was much better with color and black levels, but this LCD is far brighter and has no rainbow effect. Epson bulbs are much cheaper to replace than BenQ DLP. Pros/cons to each. This PJ is good for the money, and a great option for a bright room. HDR looks good, but keep in mind this will never look as good as a 4k HDR TV. Its simply impossible to get the colors and contrast of a TV set, though you can obviously get a much bigger image with the PJ. My family loves watching movies, and watching them in full Dolby Atmos surround is incredible. This is a good, affordable option in the projector world. Hopefully within the next few years, true 4K projectors become affordable.