The W600 maintains high contrast, whatever's on screen and wherever you're watching.
BrilliantColor™ Performance
BenQ's high-speed, 6-segment color wheel delivers the best balance between optimal brightness and color, while BrilliantColor Technology boosts mid-tone colors to increase overall brightness to produce a more life-like picture.
UNISHAPE™ Lamp Lighting Illuminates the Imagination
UNISHAPE lamp lighting technology by Osram delivers more lumens onto the screen for exquisitely rendered color fidelity, amplified brightness, and eye-popping visuals that illuminate your imagination. UNISHAPE also dynamically adapts light output with millisecond-exactness to each image/frame for significantly reduced dithering noise, sharply-focused contrast, and superior color gradation (especially in the difficult blues and reds). So whatever your content, whatever your ambient lighting, your home theater experience will always be richly magnificent.
Independent Color Management Puts You in Control
Home theater enthusiasts have high standards and unique preferences when it comes to picture quality and the W600 more than exceeds expectation. For 100% color customization, Independent Color Management lets users fine-tune luminance, saturation, and hue of individual tones without colors compromising each other.
Comprehensive Connectivity with Dual HDMI
W600 features dual HDMI ports for hassle-free, simultaneous hosting of your favorite digital devices such as Blu-ray player and gaming console. Now, switching from watching the latest blockbuster movie to playing the newest PS3 game is fast and easy without the need to actually switch cables. HDMI is also the highest and completely future-proof connection standard, ensuring pure digital audio and video perfection.
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BenQ W1000
With high Brightness and Contrast Ratio -- Enjoy The Full HD in your living room
The W1000 is home projection at its best, incorporating top technologies for luxury, cinema-class entertainment at home. Engineered with Texas Instruments' DLP® technology, W1000 delivers outstanding HD cinematic enjoyment via advanced BrilliantColor™ processing, high brightness, and high contrast ratios.
Image Performance
Full HD 1080p Resolution
W1000 supports multiple video formats including 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. From HDTV or Blu-ray DVD to video games such as Xbox or PS3, you can enjoy the latest video formats in Full HD, the new standard of video performance. HD isn't just the latest thing. It's the only thing. 1080p Full HD delivers 5x more detail than traditional 480p projectors.
BrilliantColor™ Performance
BenQ's high-speed, 6-segment color wheel delivers the best balance between optimal brightness and color, while BrilliantColor Technology boosts mid-tone colors to increase overall brightness to produce a more life-like picture.
UNISHAPE™ Lamp Lighting Illuminates the Imagination
UNISHAPE lamp lighting technology by Osram delivers more lumens onto the screen for exquisitely rendered color fidelity, amplified brightness, and eye-popping visuals that illuminate your imagination. UNISHAPE also dynamically adapts light output with millisecond-exactness to each image/frame for significantly reduced dithering noise, sharply-focused contrast, and superior color gradation (especially in the difficult blues and reds). So whatever your content, whatever your ambient lighting, your home theater experience will always be richly magnificent.
True 10-Bit Processing Imitates Life
Accurate color reproduction is essential for a true, uncompromised theater experience at home. That's why W1000 uses 10-bit color processing to generate over 1 billion distinct colors. Compared to 8-bit technology which only produces 16 million colors, BenQ's 10-bit color processing imitates the splendors of life for a standing-ovation picture performance.
Independent Color Management Puts You in Control
Home theater enthusiasts have high standards and unique preferences when it comes to picture quality and the W1000 more than exceeds expectation. For 100% color customization, Independent Color Management lets users fine-tune luminance, saturation, and hue of individual tones without colors compromising each other.
Comprehensive Connectivity with Dual HDMI
W1000 features dual HDMI ports for hassle-free, simultaneous hosting of your favorite digital devices such as Blu-ray player and gaming console. Now, switching from watching the latest blockbuster movie to playing the newest PS3 game is fast and easy without the need to actually switch cables. HDMI is also the highest and completely future-proof connection standard, ensuring pure digital audio and video perfection.
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BenQ W5000 projector review
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If you buy some DLP models from AIM and seeing "Rainbows" worries you, or you get headaches etc. you can swap it for an LCD model subject to our "Be Happy" warranty but only if that is option agreed to by AIM and written on your invoice. Some conditions apply.
Anamorphic / 4:3 / Wide / Letter Box / Real screen selectable
Horizontal Frequency (KHz)
15-75kHz
Vertical Scan Rate
50-85Hz
Projection Position
Front/Rear, Table/Ceiling
Input Terminals
Analog RGB: BNC x 5 (shared)
Digital HDMI (with HDCP) x 1 (HDMI 1.2)
Composite Video: RCA x 1
S Video: Mini DIN 4 pin x 1
Component Video 1 RCA x 3
Component Video 2 BNC x 3 (shared)
Output Terminals
12 Volt Trigger Out
Control Terminals
RS232 8 Pin MINI DIN x 1
Speakers
N/A
Video Compatibility
NTSC, PAL, SECAM,
Auto Switching Power Supply
100 to 240 V AC, 50 to 60 Hz
Power Consumption
Max 340W
On-Screen Display Language
English/French/German/Italian/Spanish/Japanese/Russian/Dutch/ Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese
Preset Modes / Application Modes
Cinema Mode
Home Theater Mode
Family Room Mode
Photo Mode
Gaming Mode
Features
Full HD1080p Resolution
BenQ Senseye Technology
DynamicBlack
Hollywood Quality Video
Powered Vertical Lens Shift
Motorized IRIS Adjustment
Dust Proof with Air-Filter
Pixel-by-Pixel Processing
Motion-Adaptive De-interlacing
Noise Reduction
Independent Color Control
ISFccc
Panamorph Compatible
Color
White
Warranty: 2 years Projector, 500 hours or 12 months (Whichever first) on lamp.
Benq dipped into LCD
..with the BenQ W500, now back to DLP with the BenQ W5000 and that's a shame as the latest LCD panels (indeed all LCD) have no 9,000+ RPM spinning colour wheel to worry about & you get much greater performance. This back flip seems to have been adopted to keep the price down.
Marantz's answer to the (Wheel) noise problem, not to be confused with the W5000 image noise problem is: "..A wheel spinning that fast would be noisy, if it weren’t for the Fluid Dynamic Bearing motor, borrowed from Hard Disc Drive (HDD) technology, for silent and reliable operation.."Here is a link to a less than helpful answer to the problem! Some bright spark has patented a fix here!
We warn you about DLP (Single Chip) projectors unless for commercial use, even then you need to consider some people react badly to DLP's sequential nature. (i.e. project Red then Blue via a spinning colour wheel so you see cyan..) We've had to refund people who just could not watch them long term.
It's our opinion (not a fact) that people who suffer motion sickness, migraines or are epileptic should consider avoiding single chip DLP. Just an opinion based on our experience. Do some research on flashing lights or strobes as a starting point.
It's also our opinion that some people get headaches just watching and you may not associate it with the movie! Most people can see "Rainbows" once they know what to look for, put another way they thought the artifacts were normal.
Rainbows - Some people love them!
If you move your head while watching DLP you can often see the rainbows, some have a simplistic solution, don't move! Could it be that people who claim they don't see rainbows do see them but think they're part of the movie? That's fine for the Wizard of Oz. The rotating wheel logo is just to give you the idea of how single chip DLP works, naturally it's not spinning at 9,000 RPM.
Once you've seen rainbows (or RBE) you can't miss them.
Want to see them? View this page on your DLPStill don't see them? Move your head..
(Part Example in frame below)
But don't take our word for it.
"..3-chip DLP systems do not have any RBE because they do not require a color wheel. DLP, however, seems to think that DLP chips are worth more than gold and so, for now, 3-chip DLP projectors cost about 10x the price of entry level 3LCD projectors. Perhaps someday soon they will loosen their grip on the market and the color wheel can finally die the quick but painful death it deserves.." summary
Many people can't see Rainbow Effect on a DLP because they don't know what to look for..
Back to the W5000
The icing on the W5000 firmware cake is most users may have to update the firmware on the W5000 at least once, each time you have to send the projector back to BenQ.
This W5000 firmware issue does not have the ring of a quality production? The current firmware version has still not addressed all the problems. If you do purchase, make sure you can return it if you're not happy.
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The BenQ W5000 is, but for the image noise issue,
a projector that certainly "coulda been a contender.."
BenQ W5000 Projector: Pros
Very sharp image
Very good out-of-the-box color accuracy in Cinema mode (better than most)
Brighter than most, in best mode
Brighter than most, in brightest mode
Excellent shadow detail
Very good black levels Fairly quiet
Image has good depth
Support for 1080p/24fps
3 User savable color modes, and 3 user savable color temperature modes
ISF Certified, with ISF Day and ISF Night modes for programming by a calibrator
Sealed light path (keeps dust from marring the image)
Lens shift (rare on affordable DLP projectors)
12 volt screen trigger
Support for 3rd party anamorphic lens for Cinemascope movies (most) with no letter boxing (you need the lens, motorized sled, and a 2.35:1 screen)
Good remote with bright backlight, well spaced buttons, and good range
Overall, excellent price/performance value
BenQ W5000 Projector: Cons Image noise is significantly worse than most other competing projectors Limited range on the zoom lens, hinders placement flexibility
A rather large projector, but that won't bother most folks
Only 2 HDMI inputs (I still think 3 should be standard, even though it is uncommon)
Unfortunately, the W5000 only supports the older HDMI 1.2.1 protocol, not the newer HDMI 1.3 (which supports Deep Color)
Brilliant Color On, can be a little "over the top", too much for some content.
BenQ needs to add one or two additional Brilliant Color levels, that are less dramatic than the one provided.
-- 500 hours warranty on lamp (AIM)"..
Epson has three other big advantages. If you really need the lumens for dealing with ambient light, the BenQ with Brilliant Color on, musters up in brightest mode, about 1270 lumens, while the Epson can crank out over 1800, and when tuned off, still over 1500, which produces a superior image to the BenQ at 300 lumens less. Next, the Epson has more placement flexibility, by virtue of a 2.1:1 zoom instead of 1.2:1, and more lens shift as well.." "..
BenQ's basic 1 year warranty.." review
BenQ W5000 - Noise problem blog as soon as there is a fix we will let you know!
BenQ Download latest firmware here when available but at the moment you need to send the projector back to BenQ for each firmware update, did you expect to have to do all that messing around just to get a projector to work as it should?
The least they could do is allow the user to update firmware as there is obviously an ongoing problem.
"..I asked the nice people at BenQ if 1.12 solved the problem. They report a small improvement in noise levels, but are hoping to have an even better version (in the not too distant future - we hope). In fact, here’s what one of my contacts sent to me specifically: “What’s shipping from BenQ are 1.12, and we are working on the next version which I thought will be a more significant improvement.."
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Yes there is substantial improvement with the image noise issue. I am pretty certain I posted a blog about it. As to 1.3 and x.v.color, Deep Color, etc., no, I just don't know, but don't expect an upgrade for that. BenQ will have new 1080p projectors (early?) this summer - or at least that was the buzz at CES. I'll be talking with them this week. -art
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"..It has been over a month since your post, and still no word on a fix for the W5000’s picture noise issue. Please ask your contact at BenQ for an update on this issue. If there isn’t a fix by the end of July, I will have to look for another projector. I purchased a W5000 (1.02) from the BenQ store a few months ago, but I found the picture noise unacceptable so I returned it.." |Link|
Future proof your purchase with HDMI 1.3, it supports Deep Color ™ to display 1.07 billion or more colors (x.v.color) without colour banding artifacts. |learn more|
