Epson Home Cinema LS11000 4K PRO-UHD Laser Projector

After five years with the Epson 5040UB, we felt that is was time to finally upgrade. The 5040UB was a great first projector in our then-newly built home theatre, but it was never quite the perfect projector for the space. The only real issue is that our screen is 130" wide at a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. That means that any widescreen films are actually being projected at a whopping 130"x73" even though the image is only 54" tall. 16:9 images project at 96"x54" on our screen, and they were always so bright that we could even have some lights up in the theatre if we were also eating a meal while watching. Widescreen movies, however, aren't nearly as bright because of how large the image has to be to hit the 130" screen width. Compound that with the inherit darkness of any movies equipped with HDR and you've got a large number of movies that were super dark on our giant screen. Star Wars shows on Disney+, for instance, with its notoriously dark HDR implementation (not to mention how their cinematographers have decided to underlight everything) were so dark in our theatre that we finally gave up and started watching them on our new and very bright 4k TV instead. Enter the new projector, the LS11000! We are so happy with this upgrade. Not only is it much, much brighter (and were only running it at 50% brightness!), but its also so much easier to adjust the HDR on the fly. Is your favorite show always too dark? You can easily adjust the HDR gamma and make it look great (and without washing out the image) in seconds and without driving the rest of the family nuts while you adjust things. And in a major surprise, the new projector is also much, much quieter! This is also a big deal for us because we live at high altitude, and the high altitude setting on our old projector made the fan super loud. Even with the high altitude setting turned on in the LS11000 the fan is so quiet that its even whisper quiet when the movie is muted. We couldnt be happier with this purchase!