Epson – Home Cinema 2350 4K PRO-UHD Smart Gaming Projector with Android TV, 3-Chip 3LCD, HDR10, 2,800 Lumens, Bluetooth – White

The Epson Home Cinema 2350 is labeled as a Smart Gaming Projector, and it does work for games with it’s low latency mode, making screen lag a non-issue. The Home Cinema 2350 supports 120 Hz refresh for full HD and is capable of 4k resolutions at 60 Hz – low when compared to gaming monitors, but we are talking a big-screen projector here. While there is a lot of marketing trumpeting it’s 2,800 lumens of brightness – which is great for a projector, it’s a little disappointing in use. You need to play it in low-light conditions, as a moderately lit room makes the colors dull and washed out. Still, gaming on a 120 in projection screen is admittedly pretty cool. If you have the real estate, you can make the screen up to 500 inches!
For Home Cinema, the 2350 seems to be more comfortable and can handle this task with quite well. Again, low light is required, where its HD capability allows colors to be vibrant and replicated accurately. The entire picture is sharp, and there’s no distortions at the edges of the screen.
The Home Cinema 2350 supports Android TV, so you can watch Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. without any other accessories, and supports a large number of apps natively. This feature does take up one of the two available HDMI ports, leaving one to connect an outside device such as a console, PC, or BluRay player. The 2350 comes with two remotes – one for the device and another for.. well, I’m not sure. Some of the controls are duplicated between the two, and it can be a bit confusing.
I did have a difficult time getting the image squared on the screen. The 2350 offers a wide range of adjustments, making it a bit easier to get it set up, but while I was able to center the image on the screen, there’s a bit of an off center light bleed, which is ever so slightly distracting. It will require some time to see if I can adjust that. I also may be a bit more sensitive to it than others, as several other people didn’t notice it until I pointed it out.
The 2350 has it’s own build-in speaker, which is adequate, but you’ll want better sound. Fortunately, with build-in Bluetooth connectivity adding a soundbar takes little effort.
Overall, I really like the Home Cinema aspect of the Epson Home Cinema 2350, but while it’s capable of decent results when used for gaming, I’m not sure I would make such a big deal about that.

With 4K being commonplace, it takes more to stand out in the crowd of home cinema projectors. Epson’s 2350 tries it’s hat in the “gaming” projector market.
Let me start with what you get. Out of the box you get the projector, a power cable, an extra expansion port cover, 1 projector remote, 1 Android remote, and some inserts.
So out of the gate, you’re greeted with one HDMI. Technically it has two, but one of the HDMI ports is occupied by the Android streaming stick. This is what allows the the projector to be a “smart projector.” This is my theory or maybe it genuinely has a wi-fi card built into the motherboard. This I am unsure of.
The projector itself is lightweight, and has many of the standard options such as a retractable foot on the front center, two legs in the back that can be adjusted independently to raise the projector’s rear. I really appreciate this feature. It’s minor, but the ability to adjust the rear’s height is a welcome.
You can change the focus, the height, the size of the picture, and adjust the horizontal keystone via a slider.
So with the Android stick, you’re given an entertainment hub. You have the usual suspects of apps such as Netflix, Youtube, etc… You can add more apps and edit your home screen. I’m impressed by little to no lag there is from the time you press the control to when it responds. It’s almost instantaneous.
So I plugged in my laptop and tried some games. This is where things are somewhat disappointing. In one of the games that I tested, I set the refresh rate high, and set the frames per second to 120. I didn’t see it translate any differently from 60 fps on any other monitor. My gaming laptop has a 300hz refresh rate, and it looked smoother than the projector. I didn’t see any option on the projector setting that let me control the refresh rate or fps. I tried plugging in my gaming console, and it looked great, but once again, I didn’t see how it differed from my gaming monitor. This is where I’m not sold that this is in fact a gaming projector.
Don’t get me wrong, the projector has a beautiful picture, and you can really go in depth in regards to the picture settings. There’s an advance setting where you can really go in and tweak the picture to your liking.
The sound is decent for a built in speaker, but once I connected it to my sound system, then the movie/gaming experience felt complete.
All in all, it’s a great 4K image, HDR, with a lot of options. As a gaming projector, I feel that it is more marketing talk than anything else.
I would still recommend it. For the price you effectively get a minimum 125 inch picture.

This is my 6th Epson Projector. Most recently I owned the LS300 and 4010. This thing blows both of those out of the water.
This is 4K HDR with a great picture even right next to a window! The portability and having a built in speaker is so convenient. The HDMI ARC port works great with my Sonos ARC surround system and I finally have Dolby Atmos sound which is literally like a full blown theater sound in your home!
Xbox series X and PS5 work great as well. The built in Android tv stick is so awesome because of it just being one simple voice remote to control google tv through Bluetooth and embedded IR control of projector settings. The sliders are also great-It takes literally about 2-3 seconds to change picture sizing zoom, focus and keystone compared to my last two digital control projectors.
I don’t know when they’ll fix the whole 1080p/120 FPS EDID issue with a firmware update but regardless this projector is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of the last two I’ve owned at half the price when on
I don’t know how you can ask for anything more from a projector. This is the sweet spot. I even canceled my ls800b (backordered from Dell) after using this one be for a month. This one is a home run for practical family users and gamers. Of course slightly better picture can be had with like LS11000 or LS12000 but the minute an even small amount of light is introduced this thing at 2800 linens will be a better picture.