This is my first tv experience larger than 65 inches. I conducted a massive amount of research, leveraging resources like the Laser TV Showdown, Chris Majestic, The Hook Up and others. I appreciate the thoroughness of all their reviews. I was torn between the Formovie Theater, Hisense PX-2 Pro and Epson LS800 - all with their own different advantages. At the end of the day, my needs focused on a non-dedicated theater room with ambient light, so when the Epson LS800 was on sale at projectorscreen.com I decided to go for it, primarily for the high lumen count. You can see my before and after setup below. I am currently using a small stand that I had, but will be upgrading to a better stand that suits the needs of my projector, PS5 and soundbar. I am not using a screen yet, but love the image quality even without it...just displayed on a tan wall.
The setup was extremely easy right out of the box.
I only encountered two issues:
- Reducing blurriness at the top of screen (I struggled to figure this out in the remote settings before finding the physical adjustment lever on the side of the projector, behind the port panel)
- Finding a Netflix solution (I had planned on using a Roku stick, but that didn't seem feasible due to how the stick would not allow me to close the port panel. I ended up using the PS5 for Netflix and was surprised that the Epson remote automatically synched with the PS5 without any effort.)
My setup: 105" image, projector is on a 14" stand, 4.5" from wall, image is 6.5" above the projector. I also love that in the settings you can digitally shrink the size of the image if your space requires a smaller projection.
I am really happy with the Epson LS800 so far and very appreciative of the great insight from the community of experts at projectorscreen.com.