When Singapore resident Lim Hock Leng was drawing up the master blueprint for his new landed property in Singapore, he wanted to have a home cinema to entertain guests and relatives.
The home cinema would have to offer a visual and acoustic experience to rival the best cinemas in town. The cinema screen could make or break the cinematic experience. While the largest LED TVs today offer screen sizes in excess of 80", projectors can project an image of well over 120", immersing viewers more completely in the movie than TVs do.
Lim decided on a projector that delivers bright and vibrant images across a range of lighting conditions for his home cinema. The projector had to be easy to use and maintain, and should deliver deep blacks with high contrast ratios.
With a roughly 32m2 of space, an Epson EH-LS10000 projector as the visual centrepiece was a no-brainer. Aimed at home cinema enthusiasts looking for the best in projector technology, the EH-LS10000 is Epson’s first home cinema projector to harness the power of high-quality laser technology, which not only makes it possible to project a picture at full brightness in just 20 seconds, but also sports a long-life light source of 30,000 hours in Eco mode.
The projector uses a dual laser light source to deliver a wide colour gamut and absolute-black contrast. Epson’s 3LCD reflective technology also delivers high contrast ratios, a high aperture for smooth images and high-speed responses for crisp pictures in fast motion scenes.
It took Singapore-based theatre specialist Art of Entertainment (AOE) and architecture and interior design firm PRODUCE six months to conceptualise and fit out the home cinema. AOE’s Bruce Lee, who recommended the Epson EH-LS10000 for Lim’s home cinema and finetuned the cinema’s visual and audio performance, says: “We want to leverage the projector’s absolute-black image quality with high contrast ratio as the room is not fully dark all the time.”
Lim’s home cinema features multiple modes that can easily be selected through a smartphone or tablet device to suit different usage scenarios, eliminating the need for multiple remote controllers. For example, a bright cinema mode reduces room brightness by half, while the living room mode fully lights up the home cinema.
“Regardless of the movie I’m watching, the Epson EH-LS10000 delivers stunning images across different lighting conditions – absolute black in dark scenes, high level of detail and vibrant colours even when the room is not fully darkened. The projector has far exceeded my expectations,” Lim says.
Such image quality is only possible thanks to the Epson EH-LS10000’s high white and colour light output, and a 480 Hz drive that ensures bright 3D images for those who enjoy 3D movies. It also supports 2D to 3D conversion and comes with two full HD Active 3D glasses for an immersive cinematic experience.
AOE’s Lee says the use of laser technology reduces the need to replace projector lamps and maintain the projector. “We wanted to minimise the need for maintenance because the projector is stored in a motorised projector lift in the ceiling,” he adds.
A wide lens shift range, powered optical zoom lens and lens position memory presets for several screen aspect ratios also make it easy to position and set up the projector all within a day, according to Lee.
More importantly, the projector runs almost silently, and its design, including a stylish lens shutter and hidden control panel, helped it blend seamlessly into Lim’s home cinema.
“The projector is whisper-quiet, and therefore it does not need to be isolated to another room while in operation,” Lim says. “That it has beautiful curves, a top-notch feature set, and starts up faster than other projectors are clinchers too.”
The home cinema would have to offer a visual and acoustic experience to rival the best cinemas in town. The cinema screen could make or break the cinematic experience. While the largest LED TVs today offer screen sizes in excess of 80", projectors can project an image of well over 120", immersing viewers more completely in the movie than TVs do.
Lim decided on a projector that delivers bright and vibrant images across a range of lighting conditions for his home cinema. The projector had to be easy to use and maintain, and should deliver deep blacks with high contrast ratios.
With a roughly 32m2 of space, an Epson EH-LS10000 projector as the visual centrepiece was a no-brainer. Aimed at home cinema enthusiasts looking for the best in projector technology, the EH-LS10000 is Epson’s first home cinema projector to harness the power of high-quality laser technology, which not only makes it possible to project a picture at full brightness in just 20 seconds, but also sports a long-life light source of 30,000 hours in Eco mode.
The projector uses a dual laser light source to deliver a wide colour gamut and absolute-black contrast. Epson’s 3LCD reflective technology also delivers high contrast ratios, a high aperture for smooth images and high-speed responses for crisp pictures in fast motion scenes.
It took Singapore-based theatre specialist Art of Entertainment (AOE) and architecture and interior design firm PRODUCE six months to conceptualise and fit out the home cinema. AOE’s Bruce Lee, who recommended the Epson EH-LS10000 for Lim’s home cinema and finetuned the cinema’s visual and audio performance, says: “We want to leverage the projector’s absolute-black image quality with high contrast ratio as the room is not fully dark all the time.”
Lim’s home cinema features multiple modes that can easily be selected through a smartphone or tablet device to suit different usage scenarios, eliminating the need for multiple remote controllers. For example, a bright cinema mode reduces room brightness by half, while the living room mode fully lights up the home cinema.
“Regardless of the movie I’m watching, the Epson EH-LS10000 delivers stunning images across different lighting conditions – absolute black in dark scenes, high level of detail and vibrant colours even when the room is not fully darkened. The projector has far exceeded my expectations,” Lim says.
Such image quality is only possible thanks to the Epson EH-LS10000’s high white and colour light output, and a 480 Hz drive that ensures bright 3D images for those who enjoy 3D movies. It also supports 2D to 3D conversion and comes with two full HD Active 3D glasses for an immersive cinematic experience.
AOE’s Lee says the use of laser technology reduces the need to replace projector lamps and maintain the projector. “We wanted to minimise the need for maintenance because the projector is stored in a motorised projector lift in the ceiling,” he adds.
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More importantly, the projector runs almost silently, and its design, including a stylish lens shutter and hidden control panel, helped it blend seamlessly into Lim’s home cinema.
“The projector is whisper-quiet, and therefore it does not need to be isolated to another room while in operation,” Lim says. “That it has beautiful curves, a top-notch feature set, and starts up faster than other projectors are clinchers too.”
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