Home Cinema Series Offers Lens Shift, Small Footprint and a Range of Features for Easy Placement on Almost Any Shelf or Surface

Home Cinema 3000-Series

DENVER (CEDIA Expo 2014, Booth #240) – Sept. 10, 2014 – Epson, the number-one selling projector brand worldwide¹, today announced new additions to its award-winning lineup of Home Cinema projectors, the PowerLite^® Home Cinema 3600e, Home Cinema 3500, and Home Cinema 3000. Featuring up to 2,500 lumens of color brightness and 2,500 lumens of white brightness²with up to 70,000:1 contrast ratio, Epson’s latest Home Cinema solutions bring an immersive 2D and 3D 1080p experience to today’s living rooms. With wide vertical and horizontal lens shift, 1.6x zoom lens and a 26 percent smaller footprint than preceding models³, the Home Cinema 3000-Series projectors are designed for big-screen entertainment almost anywhere in a matter of minutes.  

“These new projectors offer refined image quality while being among the brightest 1080p projectors we’ve ever produced, making them ideal for well-lit family rooms,” said Jason Palmer, marketing manager, Epson America. “In addition, a unique compact design, simple lens shift and front-facing exhaust allow users to conceal the projector in a bookcase on the back wall and enjoy images up to 300 inches – five, ten or even over thirty times the size of a 50-inch flat screen.”

The models featured in the Home Cinema 3000-Series offer varied capabilities designed to make it easier than ever to enjoy content – including high color and white brightness and built-in color modes for viewing in different environments. The Home Cinema 3500 and 3600e also include two built-in 10-watt stereo speakers allowing users the versatility to take the projector to a backyard for outdoor movie nights, a friend’s house for video game tournaments or anywhere else the imagination allows.

Whether you are mounting to the ceiling or moving the projector from room to room, all three of the models feature Epson’s dial-adjusted lens shift technology that enables positioning flexibility with an incredible range of up to + or – 60 percent on the vertical axis and up to + or – 24 percent on the horizontal axis. In addition, all three models are designed for installation on a ceiling or for easy set up on a table, or tucked inside a shelving space.

Epson projectors offer up to 3x Brighter Colors⁴ than competitive models. The Epson^® Home Cinema 3000 Series of 3LCD projectors ensure stunning images and Full HD 1080p with enhanced detail. Both the Home Cinema 3500 and Home Cinema 3600e add Super Resolution technology to deliver defined edges and rich image quality as well as all-new Detail Enhancement technology to refine surface detail for true-to-life images. The flagship Home Cinema 3600e adds a WirelessHD transmitter that connects up to five HDMI devices simultaneously, with one HDMI out connection and one optical port for switching between sources and MHL connectivity to display content from MHL-enabled tablets, smartphones and streaming sticks.

More About the Home Cinema 3000-Series

• Up to 3x Brighter Colors, and reliable performance - 3LCD, 3-chip technology⁴
• High color brightness and high white brightness: 2,500 lumens of color brightness and 2,500 lumens of white brightness² (Home Cinema 3600e and Home Cinema 3500); 2,300 lumens of color brightness and 2,300 lumens of white brightness² (Home Cinema 3000)

• Flexible positioning and easy setup with vertical and horizontal lens shift, 1.6x zoom and a compact design for placement virtually anywhere, even in a tight shelf space
• Deep black levels with a contrast ratio of up to 70,0000:1 (Home Cinema 3600e and 3500) and up to 50,000:1 (Home Cinema 3000)