Aside from the new chip, the Epson Pro Cinema 4050 offers other special features to get excited about. As mentioned, it boasts 2,400 lumens, which is enough brightness for living rooms with decent control over ambient light, and, of course, dedicated home theaters. Epson claims it can reproduce 100% of the P3/BT.2020 color space – a feat that, thus far, has been only nearly-attainable for 4K capable projectors. We’ll see if the PC4050 does, in fact, reproduce the entire expanded color space, when we get it in for calibration. I believe Art will want to review this guy!
Speaking of those 4K features, it supports HDR10, with compatible Blu-ray UHD players and 4K game consoles, when paired with 4K content. HDR gives that extra “pop and wow” factor to 4K content that supports it, and if the projector truly does reach 100% of P3/BT.2020, these elements, combined with the new 3LCD chip, should yield a picture with some exceedingly gorgeous color and quality.
The Epson Pro Cinema 4050 has a high contrast ratio of 200,000:1, and boasts a low Delta E for accurate color reproduction – something that will make our calibrator, Eric, quite happy. For those of you who don’t know, Delta E is a metric for understanding how the human eye perceives color difference. The term delta comes from mathematics, meaning “change in a variable or function.” The suffix E references the German word Empfindung, which broadly means “sensation.” Simply put, look at Delta E as a measure of grayscale/color accuracy.
