Epson Home Cinema LS11000 vs Epson Home Cinema 5050UB

What the data does state: both are 3LCD designs with IDENTICAL published lens-shift ranges (±96.3% vertical) — the same optical-chassis lineage, and placement flexibility almost nothing else matches. The light sources genuinely differ: the LS11000's laser is rated at 20,000 hours; the 5050UB uses a UHP lamp whose life is UNSTATED in our data. What the data does NOT state, and we won't invent: the 5050UB's brightness is unrecorded (the LS11000 states 2,500 lumens), and the 5050UB has NO tracked price — it renders as 'price unknown' here, not as a guess.

If you own a working 5050UB, the stated differences — a 20,000-hour laser versus lamp replacements, on the same ±96.3% lens-shift chassis — are the whole upgrade case; our data records no brightness or lag figures for the 5050UB to argue otherwise. If you're buying fresh at the LS11000's tracked $4,499.99, it's the one with a published, current spec sheet — and we flag that our 5050UB row is too thin to score a head-to-head fairly.

• Identical stated ±96.3% vertical lens shift on both — same optical-chassis lineage, and the concrete reason 5050UB owners consider only this upgrade path.
• Light-source lifecycle from stated fields: a 20,000-hour-rated laser vs a UHP lamp whose life is UNSTATED in our data — we compare the stated halves and flag the unstated one.
• Brightness honesty: the LS11000 states 2,500 lumens; the 5050UB's brightness is UNRECORDED in our normalized data — no invented number, the gap is the finding.
• Price honesty: the 5050UB has NO tracked price and renders as 'price unknown'; the LS11000 tracks at $4,499.99.