Epson prices, displays the PowerLite Home Cinema 6500 UB
By Laura June 
posted January 7th 2009 8:59AM
posted January 7th 2009 8:59AM
We caught sight of Epson's PowerLite Home Cinema 6500 UB quite a while back, but now it's available and on display at CES as the company's flagship home projector. If you've forgotten, this little beast boasts a 920 x 1080 full HD resolution, displays 1600 ANSI lumens, and a 75000:1 contrast ratio. All in all, not too bad for the $3,000 asking price.
Shouldn't that be 1920x1080 resolution not 920?
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Yeah maybe he isn't a fanboy anymore but he is still dumb as a sack of cat shit. His IQ is a negative number.
These products seem overpriced compared to costs of devices using similar technology. I say let the Justice Department investigate price fixing.
I am in the process of building a home theater and I am torn between 720p or saving and getting a 1080p front projector. It is just such a difference in price that gets me. I can get a nice 720p projector for $700 but a cheap 1080p model will cost me twice that at least!
Go with the 720, you wont notice a difference, tune your theater properly over the next year, then go out and get urself a top of the line, ass hauling beast like the one pictured above.
Go with 720. I bought the Epson 720, project a 100+ inch screen and it looks amazing. All the 1080 vs 720 arguments fall apart when you actually hook up something that large and see a minimal difference.
Dee,
Its less about pixel count and more about other things. What is the contrast ratios, how bright is the projector, what kind of bulb is used, what is the tech (LCD, DLP, LCoS), screen being used, etc...
If you have the option between two projectors, one 720p and one 1080p, with all other things being equal then you will certainly see a difference in the two projected images. This is true on even small screens. Assuming your input source is good, like blu-ray, then you will definitely notice the difference.
Go with the 1080p projector. I purchased a 480p projector a while back thinking that I'll upgrade when the bulb blew out. It never did and the NEED for a 1080p projector grew and grew. If you got a 720p projector you'll love it when you first get it but your NEED for the 1080p will grow and grow, so just buy the best now and not worry about it later.
Well, I've got one of the better 720p projectors (an Optoma H79) projecting at a 100inch wide screen, and I must admit that I already see a lot of difference between a DVD being upscaled to 720p or a Bluray being downscaled to 720p. And since 720p and 1080p is even more of a difference in resolution as the 720x576 (PAL) I certainly can say that the 1080p is a much better resolution to have on a large screen..
BUT, at the moment I'm sticking with my 720p beamer until 1080p beamers powered with LEDS instead of expensive shortlived bulbs are here (and prices as a decent current LCD 1080p beamer)..
But if I had to buy a new projector now (because my 720p beamer would be unfixable or too expensive to fix) I would buy a 1080p projector...
People who tell you that you won't see any difference between 720p and 1080p clearly have never seen it on a real large screen (80"+)..
if you are not going to project larger as 50" I would suggest you buy a LCD/PlasmaTV and not a projector..
A rule of thumb I use is to measure your seating distance from the screen, and measure the diagonal or your screen for a 16:9 (1.78) image. If you are sitting close to 1.5x your screen diagonal, get 1080p, if you are sitting closer to 2x, get 720p.
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