I want it in my search for the ultimate
home theater experience I explored micro LED displays that would have cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars necessitated additional power circuitry
to the room and a dedicated air conditioning unit just to cool it and
Jake was all like that's really stupid you should get one of these ah Instead
This is the ls-12000 B from Epson and it
promises to be a really heavy and B the
best bang for the buck projector on the market by a country mile literally you
could spend four times the amount just to get image quality parity never mind
better and today I finally get to experience I've had to look at this for
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I can't believe you fired this thing up without even like calling me over this
yeah I set it up at my desk with the office lights which are so bright and I
was like wow this looks great I'm so excited I can't imagine what it's going
to look like in an empty room but wait where's the screen we need to put up a
screen again you can just there's an electrical box right here ready no no we
can just you know I
we actually reached out to Epson about checking out one of their Flagship projectors ages ago like back when we
started the house no for the lounge right so we had the 60 50 UV this is
supposed to be the new 6050 UB I mean
they've told they told us they're like yeah I mean our stuff is good but wait
till you see what we've got coming and I think because of covid Supply
constraints it took a little bit longer I feel like their original estimate was
like November last year oh my god did you actually just do that
oh my God oh my God oh my God did you
get that on camera no don't get that on camera oh my God I can't believe you
just did I just wanted to hear the noise it made
look at this lens
did you hear the noise
at least it's a laser not a lamp
thanks Epson to be clear this is still an expensive piece of kit at five
thousand US dollars but it features a solid-state laser light source that can
push 2700 lumens it does 4K and up to
120 hertz so I'm actually expecting the
gaming experience on this thing to be decent gaming experience being good this
thing is less than 20 milliseconds delay in a projector you literally you can
spend fifty thousand dollars on a projector and still have worse latency of course brightness isn't everything
when it comes to projection you can have great highlights but if you don't have
good lows it's not going to be a great image right it's because of the way your
pupils will will dilate to match whatever amount of ambient light is in
the room it's rated to 2.5 million to one Dynamic contrast and unlike the
projector we have in the lounge that has an iris that adjusts the whole image
yeah this makes use of multiple lasers I
think they said there's about 15 and they can kind of dim them or shut them
off and also it uses the LCD panels to
try to block light so wait this effectively has like it's kind of like
local local vending yeah
can we talk about this for a moment Epson love you guys but come on this is
like quite literally an inch thick
what the heck okay so power goes in here oh oh we
should talk uh input so it's got HDMI 2.1 two of them which I mean I can't
imagine myself running two HDMI plugs to
the projector but I guess oh you know if you want to throw like a dongle or
something on there and power it with USB then you got your Chromecast or whatever
directly on it but everything's going to go through the receiver for our setup
you know what that USB is actually for what's that for it's supposed to be for
powering an active optical cable oh
that's so cool I absolutely love it but then you've got this one yeah your
Chromecast off that this one for power that's awesome uh this is for control
with third-party systems uh this is also
for just having like an IR receiver somewhere else that can control this bad
boy and then land because everything is smart now I'm turning it on I'm firing
my laser oh no way it's motorized of
course it's motorized are you kidding me I thought the shade was manual oh that's
sick oh there you go now our camera operator hey Mark uh noted that the
lighting really changed in here because the sun came out so that's why
everything looks kind of weird right now but that's a great thing for us to talk
about because as part of getting the best projector experience possible you
need to completely light control your room we are talking blackouts here and
check this out this is amazing okay look
at this see we got a little strip of weather stripping stuff right here and
when it closes it hits the door frame
and goes down so you don't get any light leakage or sound
holy crap this window is gonna need some
serious blacking out oh I was gonna double up the well yeah I guess I will
then is that air flow or is that it's the light
oh okay but listen how quiet it is
oh that's totally fine you were asking about Zoom before yeah yeah we have
optical zoom so why do we need to move it around relative to how big we want
the end the thing with zoom is when you start to use it you lose a bit of light
generally you want to put it like at the
absolute minimum so then if we can which
we can we should put it where we should which we should yes okay but I mean yes
you can you can totally oh wow that's a lot of zinc yeah it's like 2X or
something like that it's quite a bit yep right about there cool okay
oh it looks so Penner now that I saw the big one but look at it this way if you
had a TV it would have been like here yeah if you really want down the road we
could get a bigger screen yeah I think we should okay let's start with this
though this is good wow look how bright studio lights on in this room right now
I know and it's like actually usable oh let's shut them off let's see there's
the one oh and there's
uh two we're not even close to fully light
controlled in here but that is freaking amazing the big difference between this
projector and the one we have in the lounge is this is full
full 4K pixel ship so it shifts over and
down the one in the lounge only shifted over so you got around 4 million pixels
on the screen this is like the full 8.3 that you would get with a native 4K
projector you're probably wondering why they didn't go native 4K for this right
like this is a premium product why not just have a fully well it's premium but
it's only five grand right so part of it is cost when you switch to 4K native
LCDs there's three of them in there you got your red green and your blue and
they get combined when you switch them to 4K you need roughly three times as
much light to get the same amount of light on the screen more heat more
powerful noise usually yeah but what
they'll do to compensate is make the projector way bigger or way heavier and
usually it ends up being louder even with all that and of course obviously
the price goes up so for five grand they're like ah no this gets basically
the same thing I'm down I'm in yeah and look how sharp it is can we put content
on it now yeah let's turn off the lights again let's do it oh I brought a few
things we've got an NVIDIA Shield so we can do some 4K movies and stuff cool I
brought a 3090 equipped test bench so we can play some games and stuff don't you
ever got some Xbox controllers oh yeah
dude cranking this thing 4K 120.
there's a HDMI 2.1 thanks infinite cables I guess we should tell them about
the cabling setup you can't see it but
up in the ceiling somewhere up here there is cables there's an optical HDMI
2.1 as well as power and I think we actually made a two HDMI cable systems
yeah when they do the finishing for the room I think one goes to the cabinet there and one goes to the sort of
mechanical room yeah you ready to shut off the light well we don't have sound yet
like move some speakers in should we seems like a lot of work just to drag
them back out we could just use the projector speaker
do we have an extra pair of outdoor speakers yes that would work
those guys right there yeah that would be pretty quick
oh no no you're good you're good you're good it's fine
uh now you're not good you're actually grabbing it made it worse here's the
plan hopefully Clips packed this really well
it's a controlled drop oh you're just like a courier where the hell is the
receiver is it behind those ceiling speakers maybe no I just moved those there I got
a tower Tower subwoofer oh my God
Jake I found it what is it like awful
it's tremendously awful what I can't it
can't be that bad
I'm just gonna find the coach I meant the other coach okay see you
later ow trap it's heavy it's very heavy oh this
this sucks um what are you even doing this might be
bad how are you sideways oh shoot okay
new plan new plan we're going up and over what that oh God yeah put the heavy
thing really high up yeah great idea okay
glutes looking good man thank you
oh
not you hey Linus I think we can throw
less shade at Epson I actually think this is thicker
yeah I'll show you mine if you show me yours let's see
it is at its thickest point I think you
win yeah but mine averages you might have like like more square centimeters
or cubic centimeters sorry okay oh my
God can I help with that
I always forget how absolutely insane this receiver is like look at that I O
holy that is
amazing oh and once the walls are black
yeah there's actually a ton of light in this room just bouncing off of this wall
that's one of the big reasons that in a media room you need to have everything
blacked out carpet walls ceiling sorry
okay like that there you go there's Dynamic mode now it's even brighter holy
crap what so Dynamic is not going to be
I mean even for dynamic mode it looks like looks not bad this looks amazing
usually Dynamic mode looks like Costco affecty
Jake micro LED would have been a huge mistake
you were right this is amazing we haven't even put a screen on yet I know
I've got a freaking electrical box in the middle of the image and I'm already mesmerized by it look at this you're
also like standing like right up against you yeah but that's the thing it's like
it looks better better from farther away
very sharp if there's no screen door at all oh my God that's bright that's crazy
it kind of hurts my eyes this is a Showcase of hdrf I've ever
seen one time to play some games you know what
I'm kind of not even feeling like bothering putting the screen on here and
risking damaging it while they finish up honestly this is just like if we're
already at this level already and it's only going to get better with the screen
I'm satisfied clearly we're sticking with this solution so
look at this graph it doesn't even get you can get steady state and download
it's just done all the updates done
holy crap I can't believe I'm going to be downloading it over 200 megabytes a
second at home it's a game changer look at the CPU usage though 30 of a
threadripper 32 core 240
oh my God we're gonna hit 250. holy that's amazing there is so
much spill from this room being so white and yet it still looks really good I was
thinking about how the Shadows look a tiny bit washed out but it is totally
just because this room is Uber white yeah and once the screen surround is all
black uh-huh it's gonna look so gonna look amazing in the dark I don't know
that I would be able to tell that it's not a TV it looks great I mean it's not
OLED level blacks like don't get me wrong no but it's like very good a very
good LCD yeah this game is so funny it's
so arcadius oh I know I can see how
you'd like it because it's just automatic drift God
like oh look at this oh what oh wait no
we share controls stop it
hello Doom oh is this oh sorry is this making it difficult for you thanks
thanks that's great that's perfect
yeah I remember when this game was relevant for like two weeks yeah
but damn though roasted oh okay that's
uh maybe too much HDR oh oh
okay so we're just a little Juiced here
okay that's a little less ice earring it's still pretty
it's very hdre like when you catch a glint at the sun off the back of the car
and stuff like it's yeah the Shadow's got a lot of detail I definitely think
we could tweak this more but I love it the responsiveness though and
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enjoyed this video go check out the rest of the home upgrade series we are
finally coming to the end but man what a journey dude there's so many more videos
to make still I know I'm gonna have to do the family room the downstairs we're
gonna have to do something actually set up the projector room yeah get all the
audio set up for everything oh God uh we gotta actually show how all of the home
automation for the heating and cooling works oh you're gonna die
you died see you later