Epson partnered with Bose for the speakers on its new projectors

The Epson Lifestudio Flex Plus projector includes ambient lighting truthful it tin treble arsenic a bedside lamp. | Image: Epson

Epson announced five caller projectors contiguous arsenic portion of a caller Lifestudio brand. The lineup includes portable projectors and an ultra-short propulsion exemplary designed to beryllium portion of a imperishable location theatre setup, with a premix of 4K and 1080P options. All 5 models diagnostic built-in speakers developed arsenic portion of a concern with Bose, Epson’s caller 3LCD projection technology, Google TV, and a caller mobile app for iOS and Android that tin beryllium utilized to make movies and photograph slideshows that watercourse to the projectors.

The astir costly exemplary successful the caller lineup is the $2,699.99 Epson Lifestudio Grand: an ultra-short propulsion projector that tin make a 4K, 120-inch representation erstwhile positioned conscionable 15.2-inches distant from a partition oregon screen. Weighing implicit 16 pounds it’s not designed with portability successful mind, but with 3,600 lumens of output, it’s Epson’s brightest Lifestudio projector — and the loudest, with a brace of 45mm speakers and an 80mm subwoofer.

More affordable but inactive susceptible are the $999.99 Epson Lifestudio Flex Plus and $849.99 Flex projectors, which some see a abbreviated flexible tabletop basal for easier positioning and alignment and dual 40mm speakers that enactment alongside a passive radiator to boost little frequencies. 

The Flex Plus is simply a 4K exemplary with 1,000 lumens of illumination and ambient lighting truthful it tin treble arsenic a (very expensive) lamp. It tin beryllium powered done a USB-C larboard utilizing an adapter oregon a artillery with astatine slightest 100W of output. If you spell the artillery way to amended its portability, Epson says a 24,000mAh powerfulness slope volition supply up to 70 minutes of movie watching. The much affordable Lifestudio Flex is constricted to 1080P and 700 lumens of brightness, but can’t beryllium powered implicit USB-C.

The $679.99 Pop and $799.99 Pop Plus are the astir budget-friendly options successful Epson’s caller Lifestudio lineup, offering 1080P and 4K resolutions respectively; some person the aforesaid 700 lumens of brightness. Sound is delivered done a 20mm tweeter and a 40mm afloat scope speaker, portion bass frequencies are boosted utilizing a brace of passive radiators.