This is exactly my woe:- Slight pink-magenta cast in the middle brightness range and a slight unevenness in the white field, with subtle additional magenta tinges in various areas of the image, unnoticeable on color material, though they are visible if you look for them very carefully . I tried different sources with HDMI and YCBCR. The result is the same. Different color modes like the HDMI wide and YCBCR 4-2-2, YCBCR 4.4.4, RGB and the auto modes were used to configure, but with same results. What this could be due to? I use a sony blu ray player, the BDP S 370 with an HDMI in-out and that's it. No loose ends anywhere. Power line stable. The test signal used to check the whites was from the 'LIFE' series blu ray from BBC where it carries a HI DEF set up as an extra. The whites had the magenta at about three points, all of them in varying intensty, but is evident only on close scrutiny. With this information in mind when you go to watch any programme material you can identify the magenta there. But for someone who hasn't seen the white test this magenta may escape him. Can you kindly throw some light please? The projector is just 100 lamp hours old.

I'm trying to put together a basic home theater for my first time and am hoping someone can help validate my plan. The theater will be setup in a room in my basement. The room is about 14 feet wide (but with a 3 foot door in the back corner) by 14.5 feet deep with a 12 foot heigh ceiling. The room has no windows and therefore can be pitch dark at any hour of the day. Based on reviews, I'm planning on purchasing an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8500UB. Since the ceilings are so tall, my plan was to wall mount the projector on the back wall about 8 feet off the ground. This would put the throw distance at about 13 feet. I read somewhere that seating distance should be about 1.5 times horizontal screen width, so I was planning on approximatly a 120" screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio (106"x60"). I also read that eye level should be between 1/3 and 1/2 the height of the screen. Since eye level for me on my couch is about 3 feet, I planned to have the 5 foot tall screen 1 foot off the ground (so I'd have 2 feet of screen below eye level and 3 feet of screen above eye level). However, with the projector mounted at 8 feet heigh, I believe this would require something like 80% lens shift, which seems like a lot. I'm leaning toward a DIY screen made of framed and painted artists' canvas. I'm only midway through researching screen painting, but I'm leaning toward matte white (or very slight gray) with screen gain of about 1.0 or perhaps 0.9. That's pretty much it... I'm most interested in validation of the following aspects of my plan, but am open to any other ideas/feedback: - Projector choice - Wall mount vs. ceiling mount - Projector placement (particularly height) - Screen placement (particularly height) - Screen size - Lens shift vs. image quality Thanks! Ryan