Epson EpiqVision Flex HD Portable Projector

I bought this project for business presentations. I have had is a week and it works great. Also got the TV package which was an extra bonus. One thing about this project is you can’t replace the bulb. I knew that before buying and purchased it anyway. According to the manual you’ll get 6,000 hours on high mode and 12,000 on eco-mode. So far eco-mode has been more than enough and if you do the math 12,000 hours would be using it almost 11 per day for 3 years. Most tech gets replaced within 2 to 4 years, plus I’m not planning on using it that many hours per day. I got a great deal with being set up on 5 payments and no interest and all the other features make this a great purchase for me. I’m very happy with it, it has a great picture it’s easy to use and works with all my apps.

Chegou no prazo. Muito bem embalado! O equipamento é muito bom. A imagem é muito nítida, mesmo com as luzes ligadas. Excelente. Superou as minhas expectativas. Muito, muito, muito bom.

Don’t hesitate, get it – short story.
long story : I’ve tried many garbage projectors in hopes I could get some decent image quality on the cheap… nope.. .they all suck badly. Those $200-300 cheapies are useless in comparison.
This one though, ultra bright, amazingly accurate colors, nothing has over saturated whites or black contrast that loses the image.. it’s real nice… sometimes I forget it’s on my office painted wall, no need for any screen, it just pops. But when you turn the lights out, wow…
for gaming, no good, look elsewhere, there is lag (about 100ms which makes games nearly unplayable). This is not a gaming projector, but for what it is, it’s great, a bright vivid business projector which can play movies very nicely and can easily be used as a second monitor so I can offload youtube there while I work on my main screen.
No need for the added android TV since it’s connect to my PC.
I should say for games like CIV 6… no problem, just no FPS competitive play, I still played on it for a while 🙂 I shouldn’t say totally unplayable but that lag…

I have it set in ECO mode… the extra seemingly 20% brighter you get in regular mode doesn’t do much… I can just boost gamma a bit and ECO looks like regular mode… which makes the bulb burn in about 6000 hours, ECO is 12000.. bulbs are not too expensive (under $100)

just one HDMI in… one power button… this is no frills, which is just fine for me, better in fact… don’t waste $$ on things I don’t need, it has full featured remote, can adjust image in every way, can project on ceiling on angle, then correct it, works nice to put image in corner of room on ceiling. I’d say 4.6/5 (price is a tad steep) and I expect prices to drop based on all the competition hitting the market.

 Excelente calidad de la imagen incluso en exterior con luz, el sonido que incluye es bueno para interior, en exterior solo conectarlo a una bocina y 10/10. Sin duda alguna la mejor compra. Recomendado, vale cada peso.

First things first, this is a great looking unit. Elegant, clean, diminutive. And it is bright, with great color even mid day in my office with lots of sunlight coming in the open windows (not direct though). And I am still projecting on the wall, I haven’t even had a chance to mount the screen yet :). The projector is pretty simple to use and work out, which is great. There is just one hdmi in, but that is fine with me since I am connecting to my receiver, and that keeps even the input plug hidden under a door to keep this clean design. I really appreciate the effort to make it look this good and perform this well. Overall I am very happy with my purchase.

A few nits of course:
– Ceiling mount: It does not seem to have ceiling mount points? I have a ticket out to Epson and will also ask a question about this on Amazon questions after I finish this review. If it really doesn’t have any, and the Epson mount I just bought on Amazon also is not going to work, Epson needs to make that very clear as it is important to know about. No mention of it on Amazon or Epson.com at time of writing, though a third party reseller listed it as universal mount, but I think that must have been presumptive or default??? Maybe a 3rd party will come out with a mount for it as it is so compact and clean, I would rather have it on my ceiling than most other big projectors.
– 2 Remotes to power up, 1 down: To turn it on with the included Android tv dongle attached, you have to push power on the infrared Epson remote and only then can you power up the Android tv with its separate remote. I get that one is infrared and one is rf, but this is really awkward including two separate remotes, neither of which can even power the other one on. The builders did make it so when you power down the Android TV, the projector shuts down too, which is convenient.
– Can’t log in to Advanced Protection Google account on the included dongle Android TV. I think this will get fixed, and I will come back and edit it. I think it is probably just a launch hiccup where an API token didn’t get persisted correctly or something between a couple different calls, but right now I can not log in to my Google account because I have advanced protection turned on. So if like me you work for a place that uses a hardware key to access your google account from a new device, you might have to wait for this to get fixed before you can log into google play on the Android TV dongle.

All in all, a really nice little unit. Nice bright performance and great color. And considering these things tend to hang out in plain sight on your ceiling (if I can get it mounted there :), both the super clean lines and design as well as the tiny size and weight are pretty amazing at this price point. It is actually so small and clean it almost warrants a new ceiling mount bracket that hides the two connection wires inside a tiny post since it weighs so little. All in all an easy keeper and would have been 5 star if I could log in and there was a ceiling mount workaround. If I could 4.5 star it I would 🙂