Epson 720p Home Theater LCD Projector

User Review #3 Source: TigerDirect.com by  James  on October 23rd, 2008

The simplicity of this unit is amazing. It's literally a movie theater in a box. The picture quality is great (for the price) and the ease of hook-up and use are great. I hooked up my laptop and was watching a beautiful transfer of my iTunes videos. I will definitely recommend this to my own family. Oh, my Playstation 3 BluRay looks tremendous on this as well.

The simplicity of this unit is amazing. It's literally a movie theater in a box. The picture quality is great (for the price) and the ease of hook-up and use are great. I hooked up my laptop and was watching a beautiful transfer of my iTunes videos. I will definitely recommend this to my own family. Oh, my Playstation 3 BluRay looks tremendous on this as well.

User Review #2 Source: TigerDirect.com by  Dave  on June 11th, 2008

This thing is awesome. If you are moving up from a standard tube TV and are wondering whats the best hi-def source for the buck - this will give you a 95'' screen from about 6ft away with an upscaling DVD player and speakers. For $50 more you can buy PC surround sound speakers and have it sound as good as a theater. As far as ambient light goes, I project it onto a white wall (no screen) and even at the rooms brightest, it's more watchable than the the annoying reflection of bright windows you get in a tube TV. Btw... This CAN display a full resolution 720p signal from a PC. You need to use the VGA cable (not S-Video) and you have to set the resolution to 1280X720, not 1280X768. Either of those will cause the screen to get cut off like they described in the other review.

This thing is awesome. If you are moving up from a standard tube TV and are wondering whats the best hi-def source for the buck - this will give you a 95'' screen from about 6ft away with an upscaling DVD player and speakers. For $50 more you can buy PC surround sound speakers and have it sound as good as a theater. As far as ambient light goes, I project it onto a white wall (no screen) and even at the rooms brightest, it's more watchable than the the annoying reflection of bright windows you get in a tube TV. Btw... This CAN display a full resolution 720p signal from a PC. You need to use the VGA cable (not S-Video) and you have to set the resolution to 1280X720, not 1280X768. Either of those will cause the screen to get cut off like they described in the other review.

User Review #1 Source: TigerDirect.com by  SlowPoke80  on April 14th, 2008

I just purchased an Epson MovieMate 72 projector. I thought it should be brought to everyone's attention that this projector is NOT able to properly display a 720p signal from a PC. This was confirmed to me during a phone call to Epson's tech support today (4/14/08). When the computer outputs a 1280x720 signal the left side of the screen is cut off. I bought this projector as a portable movie theater AND to give presentations via PowerPoint (the built-in speakers were a very nice convenience). The projector is able to scale other resolutions to fit the screen but the picture quality is compromised significantly because it's being scaled to a non-native resolution. I thought this should factor in on anyone's decision in purchasing this projector for use with a laptop or any other computer.

I just purchased an Epson MovieMate 72 projector. I thought it should be brought to everyone's attention that this projector is NOT able to properly display a 720p signal from a PC. This was confirmed to me during a phone call to Epson's tech support today (4/14/08). When the computer outputs a 1280x720 signal the left side of the screen is cut off. I bought this projector as a portable movie theater AND to give presentations via PowerPoint (the built-in speakers were a very nice convenience). The projector is able to scale other resolutions to fit the screen but the picture quality is compromised significantly because it's being scaled to a non-native resolution. I thought this should factor in on anyone's decision in purchasing this projector for use with a laptop or any other computer.