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  • John
    Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (June 23rd, 2011 at 11:56)

    I would really like to see a picture of the projector mount feet attached to the projector. I’m having issues with the feet reaching the hard points on the projector.

    • I’ll try and get a picture of it tonight for you and add it to the site. I attached two points at the rear diagonals using the extensions for the feet that were included with my mount and then attached one leg to the front center point of the projector, crossing the fourth leg over the top of that leg.

  • Nadir
    Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (July 21st, 2011 at 16:13)

    A quick question, if the projector is not centered do you lose picture quality? I know I am having the keystone effect but I am able to get over that, but if I am losing image quality, that is not good.
    Thanks

    • They don’t really lose quality however your pixel spacing will be greater near the broad end of the image. You should be able to avoid keystoning if your projector has lens shift adjustments. You can also do keystone correction in the menus (this can cause loss of image quality) but not all projectors offer that.

  • Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (September 12th, 2011 at 02:53)

    Excellent – Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 got some great features!!
    Epson is a great brand that always comes up with fantastic ICT product range!!

    Nice specifications, especially its user friendly feature!

    regards
    sona

  • Miike
    Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (January 17th, 2012 at 15:15)

    Jon,

    I am intrigued by the 8350 but this projector only has lens shift and no keystone correction. With your set-up, as it seems similar to mine (8ft ceiling/12ft wide), what is the lowest you can project the image on the wall. I am not using a screen and because of a multipurpose use of this room, am limited on maximum height of the screen.

    • Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (January 17th, 2012 at 19:33)

      Hi Mike, according to the documentation the lens shift allows you to shift the image by 96% up or down from the center of the projector.

      If the projector is mounted on the ceiling, with the lens and lens shift perfectly centered, the picture will be just a few inches below your ceiling. If you were going for a 100″ diagonal projection in 16:9 your image would be about 49 inches tall. so, you’d have about 24.5 inches of the image (the bottom half) showing on the wall with the image centered and 24.5 inches trying to project above the ceiling (it’d just be smeared across the ceiling of course). With the 96% adjustment you’d be able to lower the image down by ((49″ * .96) = 47.04″ ) 47″ inches. So you have 24.5 inches of image you need to get off the ceiling you can adjust the image down the full 96%(47″). If you move it down 47″ then you will have a gap between the top of the image and the ceiling of about 22.5 inches. Add a few inches to that because the center of the lens will not be right at the ceiling. In my case with the mount I used the center of the lens is about 10 inches below the ceiling surface so that would get added to that to be about 32.5″.

      Please keep in mind that with the lens shift you can’t do full left or right adjustment while having full up/down adjustment. If you do a good job measuring the center the projector then you should need too much left or right adjustment. Remember, center the lens of the projector on the center of your projection area, not the projector housing.

      I hope that helps There’s a diagram on page 25 of the user manual http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/plhc87u/plhc87uug.pdf that shows max up/down and left/right movement and any limitations.

      Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 User Review

  • wade
    Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (October 13th, 2012 at 09:56)

    Very informative. Kepp in mind the great deals out there. I got this 8350 brand new non refurb from ebay on a make offer deal for $950 shipped! I got a brand new mout that works great at a garage sale for $10! oh ya, and an awesome dlite 92# screen with the felt sides from craigs list for $450!

  • Dave
    Comment on Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (March 15th, 2013 at 21:59)

    Great post. I came here looking for info on keystone effect for the 8350. I don’t have it mounted yet, just sitting on a table for now, but centering and lowering the legs – then adjusting via the lens fixed the trapezoid effect.

    Compared to the Epson 85HD, this smokes it. Colors are beautiful and rich,blacks are pretty dark and image is very sharp. I’m projecting on a home made 110″ screen and couldn’t be happier. It’s a little ghetto, but I’ll mount everything up in the next few weeks.

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