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BenQ W6000 1080p DLP Projector
By pfhometheater | February 2, 2010
- Full HD Native 1080P
- 2500 Ansi Lumens Ultra High Brightnes
- 50,000:1 High Contrast Ratio
- H+V Lens Shift
- ISFccc
Product Description
The W6000 is living room cinema at its best, incorporating top technologies for luxury, cinema-class entertainment at home. It rivals high-priced models in offering full 1080p HD video at 24 frames per second – the same format used for professional movie filming and editing, as well as in Blu-ray DVD players. Movies are always pristine and immaculate without the degradation that inevitably occurs during the conversion process. Likewise, sophisticated HQV processin… More >>
BenQ W6000 1080p DLP Projector
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Topics: Projectors For Home Theater | 5 Comments »
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I set this up last night. I made no changes to the color. My wife, son and his friend each were blown away by the better picture than we had with our Sony. Brightness is a key issue for us as our screen is 215 inches diagonal.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I selected this projector based on discussions with my two children, both of whom have projectors. I was most concerned about the ability to project through ambient light as this was cited as the most annoying problem they had experienced. My projector is situated about 25 feet from the screen and light streams into the room through two french doors and two sky lights. The BenQ W6000 easily handles this and projects a highly watchable 12 ft picture. Of course during the evening with the lights turned downed the picture rivals and in many cases is better than what you will find in your average neighborhood theater. Its got just about every connector port imaginable including VGA, 2xHDMI, RCA Video, Component and S-Video. This projector may be more expensive than a lot of the projectors available but it is well worth the extra price. I paid about $300 more from Amazon than it is now being offered for and I felt it was a bargain at that price. Now it is even more affordable.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:36 pm
If you are in a situation where you have ambient light, or a large screen to fill this projector fits the bill. The important part is the six segment color wheel. A lot of DLP projectors with this type of light output will cheat and use a seven segment wheel. The Seventh segment is white. That increases the brightness but washes out the colors and ruins the contrast. Those that are sensitive to DLP “Rainbows” will be very happy with the image quality.
The projector supports vertical and horizontal lens shifting (critical for properly aligning the picture to the screen), however it’s a manual stick on the front of the project. Zoom and focus are also manual by moving two large rings around the lens. The build quality of the case is middle of the road, which is fine for fixed installation, but I wouldn’t recommend traveling with it. Given the price point of thousands less than competing projectors those are fair compromises.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:39 am
The W6000 has some of the highest ratings in a home theater projector under $5,000 and delivers a super bright, high contrast picture. It has 2500 lumens compared with most projectors in this price range with 1000 to 1600. It’s big, heavy, it has a formidable lens and delivers an excellent picture in any lighting. If you are considering the Panasonic PTAE4000U or Epson 8500UB, this projector is definitely in that class but is far superior in brightness. For a screen size greater than 120″ and with any level of ambient lighting, this is undoubtedly the best overall projector for the money.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:27 am
I purchased this projector earlier in January directly from Benq. Upon initial physical inspection I’d say this is a large projector, a little plasticky and funky looking with a mostly black box a dark purple shinny insert and the unneserarily oversized lense attachment for zoom/focus….ok now for the real disapointment..as previously reviewed everywhere you need to spend a bit of time 3:30 hrs in my case to dial in all the colors properly…once that is done…”WOW” what a beautiful picture, in one word “Awesome”, when compared with the LCD it was replacing. At once I noticed the LOUD fan noise..this unit sits directly above the front row of seats which is “my sweet spot”, not to mention the misterious BUZZ sound that I identified as the Dinamyc Iris….Yes everytime the picture fades to black or dark scenes…ZZIIIPPPP…I found out the way to get rid of this distraction was turning dinamyc black off doing this affected the black levels and the pop factor in the picture, however not in a major way….but still… I could not enjoy a quiet night movie with all that racket!..my honest opinion is that for $2500.00 even though the picture was great, it is not worth the annoyance cause by it’s noisy behaviour…so back to benq it went. I would find it hard to recommend this projector based solely on it’s picture quality…there is more to a good projector than that….in my opinion.
Rating: 3 / 5