MovieMate 72 by Epson: Home Entertainment Projector System Review – General Performance

MovieMate 72 User Memory Settings

There are no traditional user savable memory settings. That said, adjust color, brightness, or other features, and the MovieMate 72 will remember them. It’s just that you can’t pre-define, and save a number of preferred combinations of settings.

MovieMate 72 Projector - Remote Control

The MovieMate 72 certainly has tons of buttons, but that has to be expected, since you are not just controlling a projector, but also a DVD/music player. At least half the buttons relate to the player.

We’ll start at the top.

On the top left is the power switch (press once for on, once for off), and next to it is a small switch to toggle the three rows of buttons immediately below, between a numeric keypad and function buttons. There are several reasons for the numeric pad, including directly jumping to a chapter on a DVD or track on a CD, as well as inserting a password as part of the child related security features.

On the top right, is the eject button for the built-in player.

The next three rows have the numeric buttons, which double to bring up functions including: On Screen display of the DVD player data, Repeat options, Program mode (for example you can change the order songs play in on a CD), Surround sound options, Digital zoom in (lets you part of the image – then you can pan around the screen with the arrow keys). There is also a Sleep button which lets you set the desired time before the projector shuts down if nothing is playing. Lastly, there is an aspect ratio button.

Next comes three larger buttons. The left most is your Source Select, which lets you toggle between the internal DVD player, the HDMI input, computer/component video input and USB input. The center button is labeled color mode and toggles you between five preset modes: Dynamic, Living Room, Game, Theater, and Theater Black.

On the right, is the Break button (symbolized by a coffee cup image). Pressing the Break button will stop playing, but have the projector to continue to put light up on your screen, so that the room doesn’t remain dark, when you want to get up to do something.

Next comes buttons for controlling the play of the DVD/CD player. You’ll find the usual play, reverse, forward, back chapter, forward chapter stop, and pause controls.

Next comes the traditional four arrow keys with center Enter button. Surrounding them are the Top menu button, Menu button, Setup button, and Return button.

Those buttons are primarily for controlling the player, but the arrow keys and enter and return buttons also are used for controlling some projector functions.

As we get to the bottom, there are two large rocker switches, on the left, keystone adjustment, and on the right, volume up/down. In between these is the Visual Setup button, one of the most important, as it lets you toggle through brightness, contrast, sharpness, tint, etc.

Right below that button is the Mute button, which mutes the audio. The next row has Audio, Subtitle, and Angle buttons for the player. And lastly, the bottom most button is Image, which lets you mute the image. This can be used just to blank the screen, but its primary purpose is to turn off the lamp, so that you can listen to music through the system, without wasting lamp hours.