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    BENQ W3000

    Jul 10, 2016 6 minutes

    DLP remains the projection technology preferred by BenQ, one of the major international producers of all manner of projectors — for business, education, gaming... and naturally the company does not neglect home cinema, with several models, some very competitively priced. This W3000 is a usefully mid-priced full-HD model, which sports a proper Rec. 709 colour mode.

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    So what is Rec. 709? It is a well-defined standard used in the industry to ensure that all equipment is talking the same metaphorical language when it comes to high definition video. In particular it defines the frame rates and the colours.

    Home theatre projectors have been happy with all the frame rates for years, and have generally approximated the colour scheme fairly well. But approximating and exactly matching aren’t quite the same thing. The artists and engineers involved in the production of our home entertainment experiences are usually very particular in their choice of colours. Their capture equipment (video camera or telecine) is calibrated to Rec. 709, their

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