Home Theater: Epson Shows Off Even Better EMP-TW2000 1080p Projector, Should be Cheap, Too

Published: September 4, 2007, 11:37 am

Tags: 1080p, epson, epson emp tw2000, home entertainment, home theater, projector

Just when we were thinking that Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080p projector was a great deal at $3000, the company comes along and stomps that down with an even better model, the EMP-TW2000. Set for a November ship date in Japan and probably later in the United States, this one trumps its predecessor with a new optical engine that not only sharpens the focus with something called OptiFocus, but also features DeepBlack juju. Sounds mysterious. A lot of this improvement is because of the new .7-inch 1080p LCD panels Epson started cranking out in volume a couple of weeks ago, and now these chips are showing up in actual projectors introduced by Epson, Mitsubishi and Sanyo. The chip and processor combo is offering quite a bump in performance, offering 12-bit color with 68.7 billion colors, instead of the 10-bit color of before, with a mere 1.1 billion colors. Jeez, that's a lot of colors either way. Epson says that its DeepBlack tech keeps any light from leaking through the

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