On the beautiful W11000 focus, zoom and the extensive lens shifts can be adjusted manually.
Highly recommended
The high resolution of Ultra-HD should theoretically give the market for projectors a great boost. TV sets are clearly too small, as one could recognize the full sharpness from the usual Sehabstand in the living room at all. For this one would have to sit closer to the device than the picture is wide - with a 55-inch so a good one meter. For Ultra-HD, the image area can not be large enough, and only beamer can be really good. A 100-inch UHD TV costing 70,000 euros, this new BenQ beamer is a real slice for a tenth of the time.
Technology in detail
In the full-HD segment, we have three basic technologies that compete against each other. Classic transmittive LCD projectors with three chips compete with reflective LCDs (S-XRD, D-ILA, R-LCD) and DLP devices. The "Digital Light Processing" is based on micro-mirrors and is usually offered as a 1-chip variant. Ultra-HD resolution, however, has so far been exclusively available as SXRD projectors from only one manufacturer for prices beyond the 7000 euros. And as competition rivals the business, the market's joy was huge when Texas Instruments announced the first DLP chips that support 4K.
Now finally it is so far and the BenQ W11000 comes as the first beamer with this technology on the market. The price of 7200 euro appears at first glance, one has the press release of the Chimersteller TI in the head, the UHD Beamer already in the Moderately priced and in the mass market. BenQ, however, has the right path to set the quality of the first device and to put the DMD chip together with a good lens and a first-class picture electronics, which can be professionally calibrated. The large, elegant case with good light and sound insulation also aims at the reference position in the home cinema.
Ultrasound image
In order to present the device exclusively and to demonstrate the advantages of the new technology, four men came to our laboratory. Marketing Manager Guido Forsthövel was accompanied by Sales Engineer Pro-AV René Nergenau. Business Line Manager Glen Lin from the European Headquarters was on the line, but Eric Tsai, senior technical manager, was able to answer all the profound questions about the technology.
The main driver, however, was the BenQ W11000, who demonstrated his ability after a short unpacking, which we also recorded in the video.
The heart of the new BenQ is, of course, the Ultra-HD DLP chip, which does not really have a micro-mirror for each of the 8.3 million pixels (see box above). The classic 240W lamp shines through a 6-segment color wheel, which has been specifically matched to the REC.709 HDTV color space without the white portion and allows 144 double exposures per second. The 1.5x zoom lens does exactly the same as the two lens shifts (H +/- 27%, V +/- 65%). Through a total of 14 partly refined lenses, the fine-grained drawing is as far as the picture covers and color shifts are minimal.
The beamer is prepared for the use of an anamorphic, but its associated switching outputs would have made more sense with a lens memory. Ultra-HD content preferably enters the device via the first HDMI input. It supports up to 60Hz and the copy protection HDCP 2.2. Our two UHD Blu-ray players did not cause problems, but HDR signals were denied access.
This is not so bad, however, because there are no beamer at all to support the extreme light levels or blacks of the new standards. All players convert the movies to SDR and then give them with an increased bit depth, a kind of HDR light. We recommend to the BenQ the Panasonic player, since the conversion can be controlled.
Something more painful we personally feel BenQ's renouncement of 3D. The fact that there is no movement smoothing will again welcome hard-hitting film friends and purists, who want to see the Kinolook unshaken in the home cinema. We did not really like the movement of 24-material, and the developers promised an update on the serial device, which we hope we can test extensively with a final, detailed evaluation soon.
First of all, we fed the W11000 with our UHD panel test (picture p.7) and showed the 1-pixel, fine lines just as clearly as previous projectors, the native 4K for themselves. In these cases, lens imaging and correlation, the three basic color images, were always the cause of a small blur and discoloration, which is not the case here. As you can see in the test image, each pixel is displayed, but dark lines blur between them; Very fine fonts or microstructures have an excellent resolution, and real films do not show any detriment, the XPR Shifttechnik, as first feared.
Blu-ray films have a high naturalness thanks to the best prepared basic colors. THX and isf stand for profit technology. Everything can be adjusted perfectly in all HDMI modes and the real 1100 lumens with an excellent black value, also thanks to dynamic iris and active dimming lamp, a top picture. Only the dreams of real HDR in the DCI color space are still not fulfilled.
With the W11000, Benq has been providing Ultra-HD DLP technologies for the first time that will redefine the home cinema.
Conclusion
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