BenQ seems pretty excited about its new W4000i home theatre projector. It’s a premium model, although not stratospherically priced. Do we think its excitement is warranted? Let’s see.
Equipment
At first glance, this compact black-coloured projector doesn’t look particularly unusual. It could almost be a business model. There’s no protruding lens: it’s well-protected within the unit’s body. But looks can be deceiving. In fact, it measures significantly larger than BenQ’s business and lower-cost home entertainment projectors, and weighs about 50% more, suggesting a fine build quality.
And then there’s the feature set. The projector uses solid-state LED lamps, which are warrantied to 20,000 hours of use. That’s about two years and three months without switching it off. Or, more realistically, 18 years with three hours of use every single day.
The image is provided by a 1920 × 1080-pixel 0.65-inch Digital Micromirror Device with 4× pixel-shifting technology, designed to deliver a native Ultra-HD (consumer 4K) image. The BenQ rates the brightness at 3200 ANSI lumens, and the contrast ratio at up to 2 million to 1.
The unit supports modern high-end picture quality standards: HDR10, HLG and HDR10+ and both Rec.709 and DCI-P3 colour. Indeed, for both of those
