Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 Pro Reviews

I've always liked Epson projectors—they generally produce an excellent picture for a reasonable price, which makes them a great value. The PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 is no exception, though it's not quite the home run that Epson's UB (ultra-black) models are. In fact, my primary complaint with the 8350 is its not-so-great blacks, which isn't helped much by the dynamic iris on real-world material.

Although it lacks the dark blacks of more expensive projectors, the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 offers more than acceptable image quality at a budget price.

The Epson Home Cinema 8350 is a wonderful new home theater projector that brings big-money performance home for less than $1300. Its bright image has dynamic range to spare and color that will make you swear you're looking out a window. Even head to head against the Panasonic AE4000 it manages to hold its own--no small accomplishment considering the AE4000 was one of the best projector values of 2009. But the $700 price advantage in the Home Cinema 8350's favor makes it all the more impressive. At this year's CEDIA convention, the expensive 1080p 3D projectors attracted a lot of attention, so the Home Cinema 8350 was lost in the shuffle somewhat. It isn't 3D and it doesn't have some of the bells and whistles of pricier models. But it delivers a superb, high-quality home theater picture at a price that's tough to beat. The Home Cinema 8350 is one of the finest values in projectors we've ever seen, and we are enthused to give it our Editor's Choice Award.