BENQ W2700

Ultra-HD (or 4K in its domestic context) has become well-embedded in the television market over the last couple of years. In home projection, however, it hasn’t been so easy to achieve, or at least not at the prices to which we have enjoyed seeing home theatre projectors reach over the previous decade. Where once a good movie projector was priced in the tens of thousands, prices toppled first to around $5000, then, from companies like BenQ, to half that. But until recently, 4K projectors have sat back up at the tens of thousands, while attempts have been made to deliver 4K at lower prices by using lower resolution panels and pixel-shifting them, doing a double hit or even four hits to create each frame.

Until very recently, the results have been imperfect, but with BenQ’s third generation of projector, including this W2700, we seem at last to have true 4K, without the problems.