Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema LS10000 Pro Reviews

Few projectors can compete with Epson’s first salvo in the reflective LCD market, and the company’s laser engine delivers bright images with flagship-level contrast and accuracy.

The Epson EH-LS10000 is an excellent home cinema projector. Blistering black levels, great colours, a huge amount of convenience features and some nifty frame interpolation help produce some of the most fluid, colourful and realistic Full HD images from any projector out there. However, there's no getting away from the fact that even with the awesome power of Epson's 4K Enhancement feature – which really does work – the native 4K trickery of the Sony VPL-VW300ES, available for exactly the same price, means that the slightly less detailed Epson EH-LS10000 must take a back seat, at least for now.

Until now Epson has been manufacturing projectors for the higher volume consumer home theater market and pricing them at $3500 and down. The release of the LS10000 at a yet to be finalized price below $8,000 is a dramatic new step up into the specialty home theater market where professional theater design and custom installation is the norm. The under $10,000 niche in this market has been dominated by JVC in recent years, but the LS10000 represents a very strong competitive move that strikes at the heart of the JVC product line. The LS10000 is a uniquely formidable home theater projector because it combines all the hot-button stuff...a long-life laser light source, automated lens memory, cutting-edge dynamic range, superb 4K enhancement, and just downright spectacular image quality. We suspect that the Epson LS10000 will be a dramatic game-changer as it takes Epson into a major new market segment it has never been in before.