Epson EpiqVision LS800 Review: The Ultra-Short-Throw Projector That Replaces Your TV

The Epson EpiqVision LS800 does something that traditional projectors and large-format TVs both struggle with: it puts a 100 to 150-inch image on your wall from a unit sitting on a shelf or cabinet, without requiring a dark room or a 10-foot throw distance. At $2,999, it's a premium purchase — but compared to the cost of an 85-inch or 100-inch TV, the math becomes compelling fast.

Key Features

The LS800 uses a triple-laser light source to achieve 4,000 ISO lumens of brightness — well clear of the 2,800 to 3,000 lumens that long-throw home theater projectors in this price bracket rate, such as the Epson Home Cinema 2350 and the BenQ TK705i. That lumen count is the number that matters most in a living room environment. In a fully darkened room, any competent projector looks excellent. In a room with windows, ambient light, and family members who don't want to sit in the dark, 4,000 lumens is what separates a usable daytime image from a washed-out one. At 100 inches with the lights on, the LS800 produces a watchable, colorful image. At the same size in a darkened room for a movie night, the experience competes with premium large-format displays.

The ultra-short-throw lens positions the projector 4 inches from the wall for a 100-inch image, up to 15 inches for a 150-inch image. The absence of any throw path between the projector and screen eliminates shadow interruptions from people walking in front of the beam — a practical advantage over traditional projectors that genuinely changes how the space functions.

Android TV is built into the LS800, providing Google Play app access, native Google Assistant, and Chromecast built-in. Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, YouTube, and every major streaming service install directly. A dedicated remote handles both projector settings and Android TV navigation from a single controller.

Who It's Best For

The LS800 is the right projector for households that want a large-screen experience without the compromises of a traditional long-throw projector setup — no need for a ceiling mount, no beam path to manage, and no mandatory dark room. It's ideal for finished living rooms and family rooms where the projector can replace or complement an existing TV setup, positioned on the same shelf or cabinet that would otherwise hold an AV receiver.

Dedicated home theater rooms with full light control and seating optimized for a central projection axis will get more image quality per dollar from a long-throw 4K projector in the $1,500 to $2,000 range. The LS800 earns its premium in versatility and ambient-light performance, not peak dark-room performance.

Standout Capabilities

Epson's 3LCD color technology uses three separate LCD panels — one each for red, green, and blue — rather than a single chip with a spinning color wheel. The result is consistent, accurate color with no rainbow artifact. DLP projectors at similar price points occasionally produce a brief rainbow flash on high-contrast edges that sensitive viewers find distracting. On the LS800, this artifact doesn't exist.

Vertical and horizontal digital keystone correction, combined with lens shift, provides more installation flexibility than competing UST projectors. The image geometry correction doesn't require the projector to sit at a precise angle to the wall — a practical advantage in living rooms where perfect alignment isn't always possible.

The Epson EpiqVision LS800 is available on Amazon. For households ready to upgrade to a large-format viewing experience without a dedicated home theater room, it's the most capable and practical UST projector available.

Corrections

Updated 2026-09-28. This review described the LS800's 4,000 lumens as "roughly four times what a typical home theater projector produces." That comparison was wrong by about a factor of three. We have corrected it, and we are naming the change here rather than editing quietly.

What changed:

• "Roughly four times" → the actual figures. The long-throw home theater projectors the LS800 competes with rate 2,800 to 3,000 lumens — the Epson Home Cinema 2350 at 2,800 and the BenQ TK705i at 3,000, both reviewed on this site. Against those, 4,000 lumens is a meaningful margin but nowhere near 4x. We now name the comparison numbers instead of asserting a ratio.
• Lumens are now labeled with their standard. The LS800's 4,000 figure is white brightness per ISO 21118, the same standard the Home Cinema 2350's 2,800 is measured to, so the two are directly comparable. That matters because "LED lumens" and "peak lumens" — units some projector vendors use — can run several times above an ISO or ANSI measurement of the same machine. Epson does not use them, and neither do the figures in this review.

The brightness rating itself was correct and is unchanged. What was wrong was the comparison we drew around it.