Epson Home Cinema 3700

y yet I wanted to still get something that was able to look great even with the lights on. So this projector definitely filled all those needs and rig...

I set the lamp to eco mode and lowered the brightness from 50 to about 45 where it started to lose detail, but nothing really did enough to help it. A few other problems also soured the experience, though they could probably have been dealt with if black levels were fine. Most annoying being that that the projector kept losing signal during transitions (menu>loading screen>video), and often not regaining it without stopping and restarting. I assume probably signal confusion from me running it through my old Denon AVR-2310.

I bought this projector because the other one I have works so well. I use them both to watch tv. However, at the 2-year mark, the speaker went out on this model. Less than a week later, the picture went out. The speakers are never set to a very loud level but, the projector itself does get daily use...

This happens on my epson home cinema usually when I have the projector in eco mode. Must run it at full brightness to keep it from doing this.

Projector gives a bright, vibrant picture. However color accuracy is slightly above average and contrast is below average. This projector will excel in a living room with a lot of ambient light. However I cannot remain recommend it for dark room viewing due to its poor contrast.

I got an Epson 3700 refurb from the Epson store a month ago. It's glorious, and also much cheaper than the refurbed 3800 (the 3700 is the older version of the 3800). I think the main difference is a different version of HDMI, which if memory serves, only matters if you wanna game at 4K 60fps or something. I dunno how it's gonna look after the lamp has hundreds of hours on it, but it's very bright, even on the Cinema + Eco mode.

The Good: It is a light cannon Good color saturation Excellent lens shift range The Not So Good: The 3D has notable ghosting and motion artifacts, regardless of what glasses I used (tried Epson's as well as Sony and a Chinese off-brand) and regardless of various projector settings. Strangely, the pr...

My knee jerk reaction is the Epson Home Cinema 3100 on the Epson refurb store or the Benq 2050a, if you can find one i stock. These may or may not work with your room and other considerations that you may have. I believe, those to be the best in your price range. You should consider giving details about what your room conditions are from the list in the Wiki.

First off I bought an open box item which I rarely have ever done but it was tremendous deal with several hundred dollars off. The item itself was excellent quality with picture but it had issues regarding some sort if defect. There were multiple white lines jumping around the image even after tryin...

I would say out of the ones you have listed that the Epson Home Cinema 3800 is the best choice, but I am partial to LCD. Your throw calculations appear to be correct for the Epson at least (the only one I checked). From 12 ft with the Epson you can go screen size between 77 - 125 inches.