Epson VS230, SVGA, 2800 Lumens Color Brightness (color light output), 2800 Lumens White Brightness, 3LCD Projector
- 3X Brighter Colors with Epson
- 2800 lumens of Color Brightness, 2800 lumens of White Brightness
- Great image quality with SVGA resolution
- HDMI digital connectivity
- Size (projected distance): 30″ – 350″
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Essential projector features for the business on a budget
The VS230 projector offers essential business features at a truly affordable price. With a portable design and fast, easy setup, this versatile performer gets you up and running in no time, whether you’re presenting in the conference room or across town. Offering 3x Brighter Colors1 than competitive models, Epson 3LCD projectors ensure bright, compelling presentations. The VS230 delivers great image quality, plus 2800 lumens of color brightness and 2800 lumens of white brightness.2 And, it includes Epson’s SimpleSetup Suite with HDMI connectivity, easy–slide keystone correction, and more, for a new level of flexibility and convenience. No matter where your meetings take you, you’ll be ready with the VS230.
Key Features
3x Brighter Colors with Epson
Brilliant image quality requires high color brightness. Epson 3LCD projectors have 3x Brighter Colors than leading competitive projectors.1
Rich, vibrant color and reliable performance
3LCD, 3–chip technology.
Bright and Colorful
Features 2800 lumens of color brightness (color light output)2 and 2800 lumens of white brightness (white light output).2
SVGA Resolution
Essential to every presentation.
SimpleSetup
A suite of innovative features that ensure flexible placement and make setup fast and easy.
HDMI Connectivity
Includes digital, HDMI audio and video connection, for HD quality with just one cable.
Product Description & Features
- Easy image adjustments — position your projector almost anywhere and still get a correctly proportioned image with auto vertical correction and easy–slide horizontal image correction
- PC–free slideshows — via a USB thumb drive
- Instant Off/On — quickly power down the projector, pack up and go
- Sleep Mode (A/V Mute) — pause your presentation without turning the projector off
- Direct Power Off/On — control your projector with the flip of a switch
The Epson VS Series Comparison
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2800/2800 | 2700/2700 |
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Easy Slide horizontal
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1 Compared to leading 1–chip DLP business and education projectors based on NPD data, July 2011 through June 2012. Color brightness (color light output) measured in accordance with IDMS 15.4. Color brightness will vary depending on usage conditions.
2 Color brightness (color light output) and white brightness (white light output) will vary depending on usage conditions. Color light output measured in accordance with IDMS 15.4; white light output measured in accordance with ISO 21118.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX
- VS230 projector
- Power cord
- Computer cable (VGA)
- Projector remote control
- Batteries
- User manual CD
- Projector software CD
- Quick Setup Sheet
- PrivateLine support card
- Password protection sticker
List Price: $ 359.99
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Cutting to the chase: a product comparison,
$330: This, the Epson VS230. Amazing for the price. Bright enough for lit rooms. The only thing it lacks is resolution – it handles movies and PowerPoints pretty well, but if you plan on anything else (detailed diagrams, smaller text, etc), you should consider one of the other two options, which are 1280×800 pixels, vs 800×600 pixels.
$350: The ViewSonic PJD5134. It’s a bit brighter than the Epson VS320, but that’ll almost never matter – either is bright enough for daily use. This sacrifices some of the Epson’s image quality for a lot of mostly unnecessary features like 120Hz refresh rate and 3D support (why would you watch a 3D BluRay on a low-res projector?). I recommend the Epson over this. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A9S3OOC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A9S3OOC&linkCode=as2&tag=todmedblo-20
$420: The Optoma DW326e. My favorite projector for under $500, it’s a tad brighter than the Epson VS230, but WAY sharper. It’s basically the difference between SD and HD TV. Highly recommend: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GGM6G9A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00GGM6G9A&linkCode=as2&tag=todmedblo-20
$420: The ViewSonic PJD5533W. Basically the same as the Optoma, but not quite as sharp. However, the prices of the two projectors has varied by up to $100 in the past, so I’d recommend just going for whichever is cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00511ITEM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00511ITEM&linkCode=as2&tag=todmedblo-20
There you have it – a quick rundown of your best options. Hope you found this helpful!
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Great projector!!!!!,
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Great projector, very bright even in a lit room.,
Bottom line, I really like this projector and would recommend it for this price range.
Why do I like it? It is VERY easy to operate even for a beginner. For me I had it unboxed, plugged in and projecting a movie on my wall within 10 minutes of UPS dropping it off at my door step. There are no customizations or setup you need to do, plug it in, turn it on and connect a video source. That’s it. If you need to change the zoom level this one uses a digital style zoom to grow/shrink the picture, this did cause the pixels to get a little larger (in my opinion) but it wasn’t bad at all. I really like that this projector has a slide cover to put over the lens when not in use to help protect it. The other projector I have doesn’t have this and I worry about it getting scratched when not in use. Very unlikely scenario but it’s possible,
When it runs yes it puts off heat and there is a fan running but the fan is not loud enough to distract from the movie you are watching. Do note, this has a built in speaker which is terrible. It’s really designed for audio with vocals only, not really designed for various ranges of sound in terms of bass and what not. Don’t buy this expecting bose quality sound, not going to happen unless you hook up a bose speaker to it.
The Visio that I have has one leg adjustment for the front to raise and lower the picture, the Epson has a reverse style which utilizes 2 rear feet. I found that I actually liked this better as it makes the projector sit very secure on a table with 4 points of contact to keep it in place. With the single leg the Visio has it’s like a tripod, hard to knock over but not as secure as 4 contacts are.
Now the one thing I really liked about the visio, but honestly probably won’t use is they have a series of “test patterns” that you can project including an actual test pattern, lined notebook paper, map of the world and a few other things. I assume this is to calibrate your projector, if nothing else get the sizing, focus and keystone settings correct. I liked that. This Epson as far as I could tell doesn’t have any type of pattern, you get a black screen, a white screen or a blue screen from what I could find in the settings. A little disappointing.
The picture on the Epson was great, to adjust it to fit my screen I actually had the projector sitting off center which skews the image, but with the built in keystone controls you can line the picture up so it looks perfect. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the light bleed above around the video was not adjusted at all so you could see you had the projector off center, only the image itself was fixed. It’s hard to explain as I’m not a professional at this. Basically if it’s off center the light will shine and be off center, but you can adjust the image you feed to line up straight, you just cant adjust all the extra light bleed. If you had a darker wall then you probably wouldn’t notice this at all, in my case I was using just a white color wall so it stood out. Once I put the projector directly behind me and projected it straight so there was no need for keystone settings it looked perfect with very little additional light bleed, what there was, was in a square shape.
Overall for $350 (price at the time of writing this) I would say this is a great projector, very bright even in a lit room just projecting it on a wall. I watched national lampoons christmas vacation on it and it was awesome. I had the projector approx 10 feet from the wall, I had it set to project a 16:9 format image and the size that fit my area was approx 106″. At one point I had it up to 120″ but when I get an actual screen the biggest I’ll be able to get due to the shape of the wall is 106″ so that was really my dialed in size and I liked it a lot.
*NOTE, this projector projects a 4:3 format image it does support 16:9 but there is a faint light above and below the image in the 4:3 format. It did not distract me at all. If you are looking for a pure 16:9 format projector then this is not it. But in my case of a basic, entry level home theater projector this thing rocks.
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