Epson 810 HQV Benchmark Testing and Results

Perfect Score is 130
Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 810 HQV Benchmark Score: 125 (with the HQV processor, you don't need a great DVD player with this projector, just feed it 480i)

Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 810 HQV Benchmark Score: 49 (with the stock Epson 810 projector, you'll want to have a good source that will provide better deinterlacing performance and noise reduction)

Comments on HQV Testing

When running the final grayscale test I noticed some color uniformity issues on the edges of the screen image. It wasn't detracting during normal usage. The Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 810 cannot handle 480i (correctly) via HDMI. The projector, strangely enough, takes in the 480i HDMI signal, but it line-doubles the 480i input, causing flickering. The TX3 actually wouldn't handle 480i input via the DVI-D input we fed it (HDMI is compatible).

Contrast ratios were good, with the Cinema Night mode coming in at 427:1 (real world), Cinema Day showing us 1223:1 and the ever illuminating Vivid mode torched out a contrast of 3091:1. The brightest measurement we had (Vivid mode) showed us 57.5 fL and the Cinema Night mode yielded an adequate 13.5 fL (don’t plan on using a much larger screen). Here is a quick breakdown of the color temperature measurements we took from our 1.3 gain Stewart Studiotek 130 screen:

• Vivid: 6350K
• Cinema Day: 11,650K
• Natural: 5550K
• Cinema Night: 6350K
• HD: 6700K
• Silver Screen: 5650K
• Standard: 5650K

These measurements were taken with the Epson's Absolution Color temperature set to 6500K. To test a theory we bumped the Abs. Color temperature to 9000K (on an 80IRE screen) and found that the corresponding measurement was about 10,000K. For a nice Black and White Movie mode out of the box, you could calibrate from the Silver Screen mode - or you could just drop the Color Temperature of Cinema Night to 5500K.