Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The EX9200 Pro is a business projector first. It's compact, the casing has a very regular shape and fully embeds and protects the lens system, it offers flexible display options and automatic keystone correction, has excellent color fidelity, is quiet and best of all it's very bright -- and it even comes with a convenient padded carry case. It uses a triple LCD WUXGA display system (1920 x 1200, so the 1920 x 1080 of full HD video fits nicely). An extendable foot at the front allows flexible adjustments for temporary setups, like in a conference room for instance. The zoom provides excellent flexibility: at a distance of 15'11" from my screen, it allowed for picture width between 8'10" and 10'8" (excluding overscan -- the actual imaging area is a few inches wider) I also own an Optoma HD 141x, a DLP projector of similar size dedicated to home cinema in the same price range, so I tried to compare the two as best as possible, using the same source images, screen and lighting conditions. As is obvious in the attached photos, the Epson easily trounces the Optoma in brightness, contrast and saturation. The first three images were taken using the EX9200 and the next set using the Optoma. In both sets, the first picture is taken in a darkened room, the second is a detail from the picture under the same conditions, and the third was taken with the lights on (8 x 150W equivalent LED bulbs, the room is 20 ft x 19 ft). The projector is at the same distance from the screen and setup to cover the same image size. With the light on, the Optoma is so washed out it's practically unwatchable, whereas the Epson is still pulling it off very nicely. With the light off, the Epson is still brighter and offers better color. An iOS and Android app is available and lets you control the projector as well as display photos, documents and web pages (I only tried the iOS version which works very well but it's clearly designed for business presentations and not to stream videos wirelessly). There are two HDMI inputs (one of them supports MHL, a standard common on Android devices) as well as a legacy VGA port and a composite input if you miss those standard definition NTSC days. There is also an analog stereo audio input, and acceptably loud built-in speakers. Lamp life is announced at 10,000 hours, a very high value -- and the replacement lamps are very inexpensive. As a business projector, the EX9200 is an obvious choice and an excellent performer. For home theater applications, it's also a very good choice thanks to its brightness and placement flexibility: while its zoom offered a range from 8'10" to 10'8" picture width, the Optoma HD 141x at the same distance from the screen only allowed me to go between 9'10" and 10'11". The only missing feature is 3D -- something most people never end up using anyway. I'd rather have a bright projector capable of fighting ambient light than a 3D capable projector whose picture washes out completely in ambient light. An excellent all purpose budget projector and a spectacular performer. Recommended. PICTURE INFORMATION: 1) EX9200Pro, darkened room 2) detail from 1) 3) EX9200Pro, with room illuminated by flood lights 4) Optoma HD141x, darkened room 5) detail from 4) 6) Optoma HD141x with room illuminated by flood lights