As these are now out and no one has setup an owners thread I'd thought I'd be the first
I've had mine since Wednesday courtesy of Ricky at kalibrate and thought I'd post my thoughts so far as there's been a lot of pleasure and a little bit of pain. The main pain coming from the linker which Ricky is going to look into but shouldn't be an issue (top man).
First the good points. The picture, it's gorgeous plain and simple. I do not have a bat cave just a normal lounge with blackout curtains and the black level is very good indeed. The thing with black level is it's hard for me to judge as I'm used to oled blacks. I can however compare it to my last projector which was a JVC X3 and when compared to that its as good as if not better.
Ultra Hd blurays are just amazing. The thing is its taken a few days and a lot of tweaking to find settings I like and After a lot of messing I actually like HDR on this. I find with HDR on this projector I use the bright cinema setting with HDR 1 and image enhancement preset 5 in Eco mode and I find it gives a brilliant picture in my room to my eyes. Images just pop of screen, the level of detail is staggering and it's just a joy to watch. Very happy indeed
Sky Q - pictures are very nice indeed and UHD footy (only watched a bit briefly to check it worked) but the level of detail was amazing on the big screen. Crystal clear images and motion good indeed.
3D - I've only watched a small sample of films to which I know look good - gravity for one and its stunning. I will play around with this some more later on but at this moment it's better than my X3 and I liked that a lot.
Gaming - I play call of duty a lot and I've had a couple of hours on this now and again it's superb. Playing cod on my X3 online was not good due to lag, whereas this seems to be very good. Again time will tell the more I play but at this moment I'm very happy.
Now I've had some issues with linker which Ricky is going to sort out But it's mainly to do with settings as I couldn't get BT2020 to go through. I also couldn't get 3D to work. I ended up going direct to my Yamaha and it solved all the problems. However the Yamaha must be doing something behind the scenes with regard to sky as I have that set to output 2160p 10bit. The Epsom should have struggled with this based on the chipset not being happy with 50/60hz at 10bit. When I look at the signal input on Epson it's showing the 4K resolution but only at 8bit so the Yamaha must be downsamping it.
Xbox one S - now this may be of interest to people. When I set the resolution on this to 4K output 10bit I get all green lights from my tv connection, however when I have this going to Epson I have some issues - I've attached a picture. The Epson can display 8-12 bit on 4K24 up to 4:2:2 sub sampling. The Xbox one S outputs at 4:4:4. I spoke to Ricky about this and he says that once the linker is working correctly it will be fine and reduce sub sampling to 4:2:2. When I play a UHD through Xbox one S I get the 4K resolution. But only rec709 8 bit colour. So anyone hoping to use an Xbox one s may need to have a think.
Overall after a couple of days ownership and now I've settled on a resolution I like for HDR and UHD, I'm over the moon with it. Bar the little issue with linker and the Xbox one S (which are both solvable) this projector really does put a smile on my face. Anyway back to more playng but I Hope this little review helps
I've had mine since Wednesday courtesy of Ricky at kalibrate and thought I'd post my thoughts so far as there's been a lot of pleasure and a little bit of pain. The main pain coming from the linker which Ricky is going to look into but shouldn't be an issue (top man).
First the good points. The picture, it's gorgeous plain and simple. I do not have a bat cave just a normal lounge with blackout curtains and the black level is very good indeed. The thing with black level is it's hard for me to judge as I'm used to oled blacks. I can however compare it to my last projector which was a JVC X3 and when compared to that its as good as if not better.
Ultra Hd blurays are just amazing. The thing is its taken a few days and a lot of tweaking to find settings I like and After a lot of messing I actually like HDR on this. I find with HDR on this projector I use the bright cinema setting with HDR 1 and image enhancement preset 5 in Eco mode and I find it gives a brilliant picture in my room to my eyes. Images just pop of screen, the level of detail is staggering and it's just a joy to watch. Very happy indeed
Sky Q - pictures are very nice indeed and UHD footy (only watched a bit briefly to check it worked) but the level of detail was amazing on the big screen. Crystal clear images and motion good indeed.
3D - I've only watched a small sample of films to which I know look good - gravity for one and its stunning. I will play around with this some more later on but at this moment it's better than my X3 and I liked that a lot.
Gaming - I play call of duty a lot and I've had a couple of hours on this now and again it's superb. Playing cod on my X3 online was not good due to lag, whereas this seems to be very good. Again time will tell the more I play but at this moment I'm very happy.
Now I've had some issues with linker which Ricky is going to sort out But it's mainly to do with settings as I couldn't get BT2020 to go through. I also couldn't get 3D to work. I ended up going direct to my Yamaha and it solved all the problems. However the Yamaha must be doing something behind the scenes with regard to sky as I have that set to output 2160p 10bit. The Epsom should have struggled with this based on the chipset not being happy with 50/60hz at 10bit. When I look at the signal input on Epson it's showing the 4K resolution but only at 8bit so the Yamaha must be downsamping it.
Xbox one S - now this may be of interest to people. When I set the resolution on this to 4K output 10bit I get all green lights from my tv connection, however when I have this going to Epson I have some issues - I've attached a picture. The Epson can display 8-12 bit on 4K24 up to 4:2:2 sub sampling. The Xbox one S outputs at 4:4:4. I spoke to Ricky about this and he says that once the linker is working correctly it will be fine and reduce sub sampling to 4:2:2. When I play a UHD through Xbox one S I get the 4K resolution. But only rec709 8 bit colour. So anyone hoping to use an Xbox one s may need to have a think.
Overall after a couple of days ownership and now I've settled on a resolution I like for HDR and UHD, I'm over the moon with it. Bar the little issue with linker and the Xbox one S (which are both solvable) this projector really does put a smile on my face. Anyway back to more playng but I Hope this little review helps