can anyone advise if the Epson 5350 is better than dlp

It's not better or worse than a DLP projector of about the same price.

It's just different.


LCD and DLP have different strengths and weaknesses.

Just had a look at the specs and some reviews. It seems good for the price.


One thing that was frequently mentioned was it's a bit noisy, but fairly quiet in Economy mode.

Projectors these days have two brightness settings; Full and Economy. The lamp is a bit dimmer in Economy mode but this means the cooling fan is a lot quieter.

When I say "dimmer" it's still amazingly bright, even on a big screen.
But to use the projector with room lights on (or daylight in the room) might need the lamp on Full, so the cooling fan might then be a bit annoying.

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LCD projectors tend not to have a "black level" that is quite as good as DLP projectors at the same price range.



What "black level" means is the darkest black that can be achieved. So if watching a film set at night it won't look quite as good as a DLP projector of about the same price.

But it'll still look very good.

DLP projectors also have a downside in that they can give some people a headache. It's because of the way the technology works.

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Generally an LCD projector like this Epson is the best choice for a first projector since you can be sure that no one will have any problems viewing it's image.

If you want to have the most "cinema like" image for under £1000 then it'll have to be a DLP type projector, but as mentioned they can cause a headache for some people.

Gosh this is a blast from the past for me, I have a very old DLP SVGA projector stored away somewhere from about ten years ago.

Could anyone advise if modern DLP's still suffer from what I think was called the Rainbow Effect? If memory serves me correctly not everyone's vision is sensitive to it (bit like the headache comment) although I was. Sometimes during fast moving scenes there would be some subtle (and fast, almost imperceptible) bands of colour distortion.

It's much less than it used to be. But not everyone has the problem.

It depends on a thing called the "colour wheel", and how quickly it rotates to provide the colour/image. 2x / 3x / 4x / 5x are the typical speeds, although 6x is available.


I have an old 2x DLP projector which is nice in every way but for the fact it gives me a mild headache after about 1hr use

A different DLP projector with 4x colour wheel causes no trouble at all, although I can still see the rainbows sometimes.
This projector can also do 5x and it's really hard to see rainbows at that speed.

Thanks for that tass, makes sense. I'd hazard a guess my old relic is 1x!