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True colors awaken feelings of sorrow, joy, romance and thrills by preserving the original image. BenQ home cinema projectors embody our belief to convey the truest color and impart the deepest emotions to the viewer. Led by our THX and ISF dual-certified engineers, the BenQ CinematicColor technology team delivers full Rec. 709 HDTV-standard coverage for perfect color consistency.
BenQ describes its approach as ‘true’ 4K, though, and crucially the independent Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the US agrees.All this, for our money, makes the W1800’s HDR images more consistent, even handed and therefore immersive than gaudier, brasher approaches. Don’t forget that HDR movie sources automatically trigger the projector to go into its Filmmaker Mode, which has been carefully designed, essentially by committee, to deliver a natural, even look that's intended to draw you into whatever you’re watching rather than drawing attention to any ‘showy’ qualities the projector might want to exhibit. Get comfortable and enjoy movies at home, the way filmmakers intended: out-of-the-box color accuracy, cinematic colors, and grand pictures on BenQ Home Projectors. Surround yourself in your own home theater. As noted earlier, the W1800 supports an optional extra Android TV dongle if you want it to go ‘smart’, and finally lamp life is claimed at an impressively long 15,000 hours. This will greatly reduce, though, if you watch a lot of HDR.
For optimal colour, the W1800 features BenQ’s CinematicColor technology. This tech 100% meets the Rec. 709 HDTV standard for colour accuracy, giving you realistic colour with true-to-life texture and depth. The RGBRGB colour wheel and high contrast deliver crisp images and help maximise the full potential of 4K resolution. It is, though, hardly unusual for audio systems built into home cinema-focused projectors to be at best sound solutions of last resort, so the W1800 sounds in truth no worse than many of its rivals. VerdictSetup is aided by a decent 1.3x zoom and flexible 2D keystone adjustment. There's no optical image shifting, but this is never a given with 4K projectors as affordable as this. Stunning 4K UHD 3840×2160 resolution is four times the pixel count of 1080p Full HD. With 8.3 million distinct pixels for each frame, W1800 minimizes blur and displays crisp, clear video. Additionally, the new generation 0.47” single-DMD DLP technology showcases sleek, modern design to complement your viewing space.
The claimed 4K support is controversial in the sense that, as with all such affordable ‘4K’ projectors that use DLP optical technology, the BenQ W1800 doesn’t actually carry a native 3840x2160 number of digital mirror devices (DMDs) on its 0.47-inch chip. Instead it draws on the amazing speed with which DLP’s mirrors can respond to get them to deliver essentially multiple pixels of picture information within a single frame.
True colours awaken feelings of sorrow, joy, romance and thrills by preserving the original image. BenQ home cinema projectors embody our belief to convey the truest colour and impart the deepest emotions to the viewer. Led by our THX and ISF dual-certified engineers, the BenQ CinematicColor™ technology team delivers full Rec. 709 HDTV-standard coverage for perfect colour consistency. See the Wonders of CinematicColor™ True colors awaken feelings of sorrow, joy, romance and thrills by preserving the original image. BenQ home cinema projectors embody our belief to convey the truest color and impart the deepest emotions to the viewer. Led by our THX and ISF dual-certified engineers, the BenQ CinematicColor™ technology team delivers full Rec. 709 HDTV-standard coverage for perfect color consistency. See the Wonders of CinematicColor™
BenQ’s decision to focus with the W1800 on what we guess could be considered good old-fashioned home cinema values has paid off handsomely. Its pictures might not be the showiest around, but they’re refined, natural, authentic and, to use that word again, cinematic. Images live up to BenQ's home cinema promises, achieving a cinematic feel that humbles a good number of more expensive projectors. The sharpness remains strikingly high during camera pans and over moving objects, too. Judder without motion processing in play doesn’t look excessive – in fact, if anything it feels natural enough to simply add to the W1800’s key cinematic feel. Nor is there much trouble from the sort of fizzing and double edging around the edges of moving objects that affordable DLP projectors often struggle with. Rivals have the W1800 beaten when it comes to HDR, brightness and contrast, then, but you’ll struggle to find another 4K projector at this price that delivers a more natural, cinematic image. The BenQ W1800’s built-in audio support consists of a single speaker driven by five watts of amplification. Unsurprisingly, this only provides pretty rudimentary audio support for the projector’s images. There’s neither enough projection of the sound nor enough raw volume for it to feel like an adequate audio partner for the massive pictures the projector can produce.Delta E quantifies the difference between a reference color and the projector’s actual color based on L*a*b* coordinates to represent “a difference in sensation.” Delta E<3 performance means virtually no perceptible color difference to the human eye. (Delta E<3 performance enabled in D. Cinema modes.) Delta E quantifies the difference between a reference color and the projector’s actual color based on L*a*b* coordinates to represent "a difference in sensation." Delta E<3 performance means virtually no perceptible color difference to the human eye. (Delta E<3 performance enabled in D. Cinema modes.) True 4K HDR for Grand Cinema Experiences True 4K 8.3 Million Pixel Perfection keystone eliminates trapezoid effects when projecting from various room locations for ease and convenience.
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