Epson 8500 UB specifications High performance home entertainment, THX display certification

Amazing image quality

High performance home entertainment

•2.1x zoom ratio — offers great positioning flexibility

•Two HDMI 1.3 ports — for flexible connectivity options

•8x projection — projects images 8x larger than they would appear on a 40" widescreen TV

•80" widescreen — displays an 80" widescreen image from just 8' away, or a 120" image from just 12' away

THX display certification

Ensures outstanding picture quality —

exceptional performance standards for black levels, resolution, contrast, color gamut and signal processing

Versatile Movie Mode settings — a playback setting that lets consumers experience studio color, black levels and clean-signal processing with few calibration adjustments

Incredibly deep blacks with crystal-clear detail

Achieve astounding blacks — with an incredible contrast ratio of up to 200,000:1, UltraBlack™ technology and Epson’s exclusive Vertical Alignment (VA) LCD technology

PowerLite Home Cinema 8500 UB Features

• Advanced video quality — HQV processor,

Super-resolution chip and THX certification

• Rich, vibrant color and reliable performance — 3LCD,

3-chip technology

• High-definition, 1080p home theater experience — D7

chip with C2Fine technology delivers

1920 x 1080 resolution

• Sharp, dramatically rich images — revolutionary

Super-resolution technology enhances DVD, SD

and HD content

• Deep, dark blacks; crystal-clear detail — contrast ratio

up to 200,000:1 and UltraBlack technology with new

dual-layer auto iris

• Stunning picture uniformity and clarity — state-of-the-

art lens by Fujinon

• Amazing, true-to-life color — Epson exclusive cinema

filter with an expanded color gamut and new color

reproduction feature

• Brilliant images, anytime, day or night — 1600 lumens

color light output, 1600 lumens white light output2

• Cutting-edge connectivity — two HDMI 1.3 ports for

maximum flexibility

• Smooth gradations — 12-bit chip driver

• Unobtrusive operation — low fan noise so you can

focus on pure entertainment

TN Mode: Normally Translucent

Transmittance	A conventional TN
	(Twisted Nematic) LCD
	chip can’t achieve a
	true opaque (black)
	condition.
	Applied Voltage

VA Mode: Normally Opaque (black)

Transmittance	VA D7 LCD chips are
	naturally opaque (black).
	Signal voltage is applied
	to increase translucency
	(transmittance).
	Applied Voltage

• Ideal for fast-action movies, TV shows — advanced,

high-speed auto iris function adjusts light output

up to 60 times per second to match every

entertainment option

Amazing video quality with a built-in Silicon Optix HQV Reon-VX processor

“black levels” simulated

Dual-layer auto iris

A new dual-layer auto iris system enables incredibly deep blacks to be produced by more efficiently controlling the light reduction rate that passes through the auto iris shutter gates.

Reduces block noise and artifacts to restore a more natural picture

Original picture	Without HQV	With HQV
	Reon–VX	Reon–VX

Images simulated to show block noise reduction