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I bought this 3 weeks ago and happy with the purchase. The picture quality is excellent and I am sure no one will regret buying this product. I have hooked a standard TV cable and it looks decent. I mainly watch it for movies.

The size of the picture depends on the distance from the screen. I have a large living room , when I fix the projector in the opposite wall, the picture size is bigger than I want. The Zoom adjustment can make it big or small only to a certain extent. If you want to make it bigger or smaller than the the zoom adjustment we need to use other adjustment which will make zoom from 0.25 to 4X of the normal size. The picture quality is compromised when you use this but we get the right size we want.

The quality of the picture depends on the quality of the input. The picture quality is excellent when using a standard original DVD from Blockbuster. I have not tried any HD/Blueray disc yet. If you download videos from Youtube (in USB), then play it , you will get only average quality video.

Overall if you can afford the price it is worth it. Look around for a good price.

I've been wanting this thing since it came out, Now that the price has dropped I jumped On IT! This thing is great! I have it hooked up to my Toshiba HD DVD, My scientific Atlantic 8300HD cable box and my Samsung Blu Ray player!(HDMI Switch is a must) MY pretty Black Eppy comes w/all the standard inputs you need to run it as a stationary Hometheater Projector or as a portable Projector DVD player. I'll be honest when I run a standard def movie via Blu Ray or HD DVD player it looks the same, But movies In High DEF, I just sat there and said "WOOOOOOOOOOOOW" this thing has Deep rich color! The DVD player in the Moviemate 72 is good even my burned movies look good on it. Some may want to ceiling mount it but this does not support that type of installation, so what I did was installed a Standard TV wall mount but u can use a standard tv ceiling mount and put it up there! I can insert my disc face to face now unlike the Moviemate 25 which loads from the back, this is a first generation moviemate I purchased 3-4 yrs ago it does not turn, the Moviemate 72 turns on it's chassis for better loading. Now this is native 720p resolution and up scales to 1080p. If u put a 4:3 movie in you can stretch it out and up to fit the screen 16:9 or make it smaller it has other good little tricks to it, oh' the speakers sound fills the room u can hook this up to a subwoofer I used my old Moviemate 25's I kind use this when I'm not trying to rock my building w/my sound system U can hook this up to a system also through standard RCA cables or digital optical cable but i have mine hooked through the optical cable to my system as well as having my eternal HD devices to the sound system. Bottom line for this product... GO FOR IT!!!!

I initially bought this Epson Moviemate as a special present for myself, to watch sports and movies on the big screen. For my purposes the projector/cd rom player hit the bill. I was careful on the hours watched and programming. I would give a four star rating. Now for the bad news, the Hurricane Ike of September 2008 took the Moviemate in a wall of water from the Gulf of Mexico.

I recently bought one of these, and I'm very happy with it. It's reasonably-priced and puts out a good quality, 3LCD picture. We just use our living room wall, which is slightly textured and beige, so don't think an added, costly, special screen or viewing room is absolutely necessary. The DVD player and speakers are an added bonus. You could conceivably use it anywhere to play DVD movies, in its factory-equipped state, without the need for a stereo receiver, an external DVD player, speakers, and all those wires. Anything you want to add just improves it. I upgraded from an older Toshiba DLP projector.

I haven't measured, but at the distance from the wall I have it, I get about an 8-10 foot diagonal picture in my modest living room. The lens adjustment is manual, but its controls easily adjust picture placement on the wall relative to the projector. The projector no longer has to be in the center of the room, just pointing straight at the wall. The projector unit rotates independently from the DVD base unit.

The projector has all the connections I need - HDMI, component, d-sub, and audio input. The speakers are decent in a living room setting, even when the projector is above and behind the couch. I love the versatility: if I want to use my own speakers I can. Any image-producing component I want to plug in can be plugged and played. The lens cover slides in and out of place. I even hooked up my PC output and played WoW.

I don't believe I've seen 720p on it yet, but that's an input limitation--the cable box only puts out 1080i or 480p. There's also a USB port, reportedly for playing movies from an i-"whatever", which I haven't used yet (no i-whatever).

With the size and unlimited viewing angle, it's a much better financial solution than a plasma or LCD TV, even with bulb replacement every 3000 hours or so (of actual use). The Epson site promises free overnite shipping on the bulbs, which can be replaced by you, so you don't have to wait two to four weeks+ for the service place to do it. I also like the replaceable air filter which should greatly extend the life of the product (compared to the Toshiba TDP-T9U which did not have an air filter and was not user-friendly for cleaning and bulb replacement).