![]() ![]() This is especially noticeable and enjoyable with HDR images that fill the whole screen with brightness. The Epson EH-LS12000B blasts out of the picture quality gates in spectacular fashion by delivering some of the brightest HDR pictures we’ve seen from a serious 4K laser home cinema projector costing less than five figures. At times it feels as if Epson has almost wilfully tried to make fine tuning picture quality as confusing as possible. It fills the screen with overwhelming amounts of text-only choices, and presents many of its features using non-standard, unfamiliar language and approaches. While the LS12000B sports an impressive feature count overall, unfortunately its on-screen menu system is pretty horrible. The last tricks up the LS12000B’s sleeves are its support for calibration by an ISF engineer if you’re willing to pay for the privilege, and compatibility with the Calman calibration software. Such support remains quite rare in the gaming world – though it’s also worth mentioning that the LS12000B’s gaming chops don’t extend to a dedicated gaming picture preset, and its input lag with the quick-response Fast processing mode active is slightly high for premium gaming, at 38ms with 1080p/60Hz feeds. This includes extensive optical image shifting vertically and horizontally, and a very healthy x2.1 level of optical zoom.Īlso unexpected but very welcome on the LS12000B’s features list is support over its HDMI ports for the 4K/120Hz video signals now available from the Xbox Series X, PS5 and high-end PCs. The LS12000B’s claimed dynamic contrast ratio is a huge 2,500,000:1, and it sports full motorised lens adjustment – something that the more expensive XW5000ES does not. The Epson LS12000B carries a ZX picture processor, driving such features as 4K frame interpolation for smoother motion, a resolution enhancer, and a Scene Adaptive Gamma mode that’s the closest Epson’s projector gets to a (basic) dynamic tone mapping system, where processing analyses incoming HDR images to try and optimise their playback to the projector’s capabilities. ![]() Lasers support much faster on/off times than regular lamp projectors, and can deliver both more brightness and more colour range without impacting their lifespans than lamps can. It’s also true that the brightness and picture quality lasers give you over their life span will deteriorate much slower than they do with lamps. The laser lighting, meanwhile, delivers the familiar benefit of a 20,000 claimed hours of use before it dies versus the 3000-6000 hours of life, maximum, you get from typical projector lamps before you need to change them. Though we’ve seen enough projectors in our time to know that it’s not just how many lumens you’ve got that counts it’s what you do with them. That’s far higher, in fact, than the 2000 lumens claimed by Sony’s XW5000ES. The LS12000B’s HDR efforts should be helped along nicely, too, by a claimed peak brightness of 2700 lumens. It doesn’t stretch to Dolby Vision as well, but finding any sort of ‘dynamic’ HDR format support on a projector counts as a win. The High Dynamic Range support impressively includes HDR10+ as well as the more usual HDR10 and HLG formats. This doesn’t mean the LS12000B might not be capable of delivering very sharp and detailed pictures that look higher in resolution than HD, but experience suggests the results will not be a detail and sharpness match for the XW5000ES’s native 4K pixel count. The three LCD imaging devices the LS12000B uses to create its pictures don’t actually carry 3840x2160 pixels each, but rather they’re Full HD chips that use ‘advanced pixel shifting’ technology to create a 4K pixel density. So let’s look a bit more closely at these headline grabbing features.įirst up, it isn’t truly 4K in the same way that Sony’s XW5000ES is. The Epson EH-LS12000B’s main claim to fame is its ability to play 4K in high dynamic range using laser lighting at a price point that would not so long ago have been unthinkably low for a model so clearly aimed at home cinema enthusiasts.
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