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what's up guys Lew here back with another video and as you can tell I'm in an unusual location out here in the main area of the new unbox therapy headquarters where we have a gigantic 135 inch projection screen but this video is actually about what's running it and what we use it for up there on the ceiling is the new Epson home cinema 3500 projector which is a bright affordable 1080p solution that does both 2d and 3d and Epson sent it out and said hey dude take a closer look hook up your setup and see if you like it so that's what we've been doing and what we're gonna go a little more in-depth on today and in this installation I've actually gone ahead and installed a motorized screen which falls right in front of a flat panel television now obviously like most projectors this is gonna work better at night or in the dark that being said with 2500 lumens you can actually get a fairly usable image and pleasing image even with some ambient lighting on so this is my first time installing a projector and this one made it pretty easy because it is equipped with both horizontal and vertical lens shift so even if you don't get it straight on with the screen you still have quite a bit of play to make sure that your image lines up correctly it also has built-in speakers which are surprisingly decent obviously if you can go with external sound you're going to get an extra level of immersion so the home cinema 3500 has plenty of different interface options including the latest connectivity that you'd expect there are two HDMI with MHL compatibility so you can hook up game consoles receivers anything that takes HDMI you guys know about HDMI I don't need to teach you about HDMI now some people are a little bit concerned about getting a projector for themselves because they've heard rumors that you're constantly changing bulbs lamps and it's costing you money especially if you use them consistently but there has been major progress made in the efficiency of these units this one for example can do 3,500 hours on regular standard mode or up to 5,000 on Eco mode it also has a number of other saving techniques so probably the coolest thing about having 135 inches is the impact when people come over they check it out they watch a movie they watch some sports I put a UFC fight up there the immersion is intense even sort of beyond resolution just having that lifelike size is incredibly engaging you add the sound to it if you can put a basic 5.1 set up with a subwoofer it's really like no other experience I've had plenty of large flat panel displays that have a hard time really replicating what this thing is capable of in a much more affordable package granted you will need the space to install it and as mentioned earlier it's going to perform better in dim environments if you are in the market for one of these projectors what you can do is measure your space and figure out how big of a display you'll be capable of having because you do need some distance from the projector to the screen in order to get these really large sizes you could go even bigger you could go up to 150 one more thing to remember the bigger you go the bigger each individual pixel is so you're probably going to want to sit a little bit further back but at this range right here it's kind of a sweet spot especially when you're sitting right in front of it with the proper five-point-one the satellite speakers it's just a really special experience you're all invited for the next Super Bowl alright guys so that wraps up this video thanks as always for watching and thanks to epson as well for letting me check out this home cinema 3500 if you're interested in pricing and availability on that unit I'll drop a link down in the description if you enjoyed this content make sure to leave a thumbs and I'll catch you on the next episode later guys