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    BENQ W11000

    Dec 11, 2016 6 minutes

    And then there were two! Two brands of home theatre projector now available to Australia, that is, which are capable of delivering Ultra High Definition video. BenQ has released its first Ultra HD projector, the W11000.

    EQUIPMENT

    Being BenQ, the W11000 uses DLP technology from Texas Instruments, with one Digital Micromirror Device. We shall return to a very surprising aspect of the DMD used in the projector shortly. First, though, the other stuff.

    This is a physically large, imposing projector, weighing very nearly 15kg and measuring over half a metre long. The inputs are minimal — the only analogue inputs are via a D-SUB15 VGA-style socket. There are a couple of triggers, RS-232C, a USB Mini-B socket (for firmware updates), an IR input and an Ethernet socket, again for control.

    A 240W lamp pushes up to 2200 ANSI lumens of light out of the lens. There are three lamp modes: Normal, Eco and Smart Eco, the last adjusting automatically to what the projector thinks is appropriate for the

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