Epson Pro Z8450WU - Physical Tour

Color Mode Menu

Full Color Management

For the advanced user, Epson has also added full color management, found on the Advanced sub-menu. The CMS allowing adjustment of hue, saturation and brightness of both the primary (Red, Green, Blue) and secondary (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) colors.

Extended Menu

The Extended Menu offers even more features. Of note: Closed Caption options, Customizing the start up screen, Time/Scheduling, and Multi-projection when operating multiple Epsons together. There's even a Direction function since this projector can be used vertically as well as the traditional horizontal setup. It is designed to also function when tilted. This makes for some interesting shaped displays. Think about it - using multiple projectors some tilted, and incorporating the edge blending.

Gamma Controls

All this, and a tremendous depth in terms of the number and variety of other adjustment controls allow for excellent image performance. Extensive gamma controls (shown here) are also found on the The Epson Z8450WUNL projector gamma menu.Advanced menu.

Basically the Power Pro Z8450WUNL projector has as complete a set of color controls as their home theater projectors. This truly makes sense due to the wide range of uses the Z could be called on to handle.

Image Menu

Pointer Shape Menu

This Epson has a pointer function on the remote control. Here in this menu, you can select the pointer style that works best for whatever you are doing. There are two high power modes, and a low power mode. The Epson Z8450WUNL projector pointer menu.Despite being a dual lamp projector, however, this control does not let you select single lamp use for minimal power consumption. Even two bulbs running in "eco" will likely draw about 40% more power than a single bulb at full.

This could be considered a wise move on Epson's part. Offering single lamp can be handy, but if you aren't careful, and don't keep the number of hours close on the two bulbs, you will get some color shifts as one bulb ages faster. For many applications requiring accurate color, that would be a problem. On the other hand, some users may need dual lamp in terms of not having the projector fail, and not need more than half the brightness. For those people, the option would be nice to have. And of course, for those scenarios, it's logical to offer the option to automatically switch from one lamp to the other when the one in use fails.

Menu Structure

All of our reviewers consider Epson's menu structure to be one of the very best, and relatively Simply choose one of the available color modes, fine tune it with the usual Brightness, Contrast and Sharpness adjustments and you’re ready to go.

Grayscale Balance

You can also adjust the overall grayscale balance with the Color Temp control.

Spit Screen Controls

The Split Screen controls are located here as well, and have their own sub-menu.

Geometric Correction

The Settings menu offers Geometric Correction, which I didn't mention under special features. The Epson can adjust the image to provide the correct shape for different shaped surfaces. It's another feature used in today's advanced computer enhanced world, where rectangular is no longer the only game in town.

Frame Interpolation

The The Epson Z8450WUNL projector signal menu.signal menu hosts various dynamic controls including Frame Interpolation, Super-resolution, some noise reduction, plus some very standard items like HDMI range, Aspect Ratio and Overscan.