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SUMMARY
Epson EH-TW7100
Price: $2649
+ Solid full-HD and UHD performance
+ Excellent 576p scaling
+ Excellent colour brightness
+ Great price
– Not actually pixel-for-pixel 4K
Now that there are plenty of 4K projectors on the market, it feels second-best to opt for a full-HD model with just a quarter of the pixels you get with 4K (Ultra High Definition is the more accurate term, but even we have now started saying 4K for short).
Of course the issue is price — indeed since the 4Kers have arrived, there are some astounding prices out there on decent full-HD projectors.
Yet wait — here comes Epson with the EH-TW7100, equipped with its 4K Pro-UHD feature, complete with a dedicated 4K Pixel-Shift processor, and a price-tag of $2649. We remember back when even full-HD projectors were up around $10,000. So this appears a bargain. But it isn’t native 4K, where a full 4K’s worth of pixels are delivered in one hit from a single chip. Such projectors remain expensive, and are often physically large. Instead it uses pixel shifting,
