Epson Home Cinema system | Review

As a busy family, we are always making time to do things together. Whether it be board game sessions on Sundays, or snuggling up for a movie night mid-week. Having time with the husband & kids isn’t something we get often – maybe, twice a week at most! So it’s vital that we make the time to hang out, doing whatever we get up to, to stay connected.

I have already mentioned that we love our movie nights. We’re actually doing the Marvel movie a week in the run-up to the release of Infinity War – and we are loving it. Epson got in touch recently to help us make our movie nights more awesome than they already are. They very kindly sent us out the Epson EH-TW650 Home cinema projector to try out and spoiler alert? It’s a game changer! 

When I think of a projector, I am sent back to my schooldays {in the mid 90’s} and having to copy work from the square, slightly blurry screen on the wall. Not ideal, but sure back in those days we didn’t know any different. Technology has come such a long way since then. The Epson TW650 is small {around the size of an Xbox 360}, portable, and crazy simple to set-up. We don’t have any spare, blank wall space available to use the home cinema projector on, so we bought a 100″ projection screen from Amazon {for as little as £20} and we were good to go. We did test the epson projector out on our wall and the results were just as impressive. 

This is a high-definition projector – not just for movies, but for gaming too. Which, when raising an actual troop of gamers, was music to their ears. For the projectors first test-run, my Husband connected it up to his Xbox One and selected Overwatch as his game of choice to play. The screen quality was incredible – my Husband can be a bit of a game quality snob! And seeing that it looked far better on a projector than on a TV screen was a massive thumbs up. In fact, he hasn’t played it on his monitor since the arrival of the projector – which speaks volumes. 

The Epson projector comes with remote control. However, most of the things you’ll need can be accessed via the buttons on the top of the projector itself. Such as; adjusting the screen size, volume, menu & home screens. 

Before we had the projector, I had never given owning one a second thought. But now we have one, it is something we have used a lot. The home cinema projector is also something the family prefer to use than our regular 42in TV. It is the first thing we go for when we have our family movie nights, and it is also the preferred choice when my boys {including my Husband} are having a gaming session.

Knowing this piece of tech is going to be used so much, it’s comforting to know that it has a long-lasting lamp light source – guaranteeing you up to 11yrs of movies & gaming! 

The Epson projector also gives you the ability to have a split screen. This allows you to have two consoles connected at the same time {thanks to the two HDMI ports available}. This is a cool feature for gaming nights with friends or family. My husband also makes use of the split screen feature when doing his University work. He is doing a degree in Computer programming, so he would have one screen with his coding & the other screen would have his study books.

To round up this review, as a family, we love the Epson TW650 home cinema projector. It is light, portable, highly versatile with top quality results. They cost around £600 and in my opinion, projectors can easily replace standard TV’s. My Husbands words are “why opt to watch a movie on a TV when this projector can give you a cinematic experience”. He is 100%, right. 

Disclosure: We have collaborated with Epson for this product review. All thoughts, photos & opinions are entirely my own.