4K AV PROJECTOR BENQ TK800

The BenQ TK800 makes it four. That is, four Ultra-HD AV projectors from BenQ. The other three are from its W and X series — the letters it uses to mark its home cinema models. This one it calls a ‘Home Entertainment’ projector instead, and says in its release information that it’s ‘sport optimised’.

EQUIPMENT

Indeed, this projector is very similar indeed to the BenQ W1700 — the same weight and the same dimensions, inputs and so on. It shares a built-in five-watt speaker. And it uses the same 0.47-inch 1920 × 1080 Digital Micromirror Device with Texas Instruments’ four-flash XPR technology, thereby creating a 3840 × 2160 Ultra-HD image.

We previously did a deep dive on how this produces actual on-screen UHD, partly because we’ve been unimpressed with various other pixel-shifting technologies. Briefly, the fact that the DMD is much smaller than most 1080 panels means that the gaps between the pixels