Yeah, the EX3212 is both cheap and obsolete, but I saw something on one that I can't explain after reading the manual, and if the client replaces it they'll just drop in an exact substitute. A local school has called on me to hang three of them. This is a real budget install -- they're going to use whiteboards as screens, despite the horrible hot spot. They're used to having that with zero budget for the screen. They already have been doing this since they bought the projectors and started using them on portable carts.

On to the issue: When I was there, I saw an image with the lens 109" from the screen that was 58" high and appeared to be a 9:16 image. That is, it was higher than wide. It was a VGA image from a workstation. Sorry I don't have more product details.

Checking online at Epson, an image 58" high should be possible with the lens between 129" and 210" from the screen. It's at 109."

The odd thing, that's probably a coincidence that's leading me to see unicorns, is that if the image were 58" wide instead of high, then the lens to screen distance could be between 80" and 131." The actual distance I saw is near the center of that.

Of course, that would require rotating the chip inside the projector by 90 degrees so I'd have an image that we normally think of as 58" wide, but would then be 58" high. I can't find any way to do this in the manual. I'm also not familiar with computer signals that would present this way, as though they were 9:16 (or so) images.

Can someone tell me what's going on here?