Input Lag: Input lag at 44 ms on the TK800M is slightly faster than the 50 ms on the W1700. This is fine for most casual gaming, but serious or professional gamers may want a faster unit since many 1080p projectors can get down to 16 ms. However, they are not 4K projectors - 44 ms is about as fast as we've seen on 4K models" In keeping with the brand’s experience selling gaming monitors, BenQ markets some highly innovative projectors for gaming, including some of the first 4K native resolution 60Hz gaming projector models available. They also offer budget projectors designed for easy setup and portability. How BenQ Compares to Other Brands It’s a product designed for a market that probably doesn’t really fit with your typical AVForums home cinema fan, but it does a decent enough job of what it sets out to do and at a reasonable price point. If we had tested the BenQ as solely a home cinema model for critical movie viewing it wouldn’t score well at all, given that niche set of image quality points it would need to hit, but this isn’t one of those projectors and doesn’t pretend to be. As such it scores a reasonable 7 out of 10 as a portable home entertainment and sports projector - because it does that role very well. Whether that market needs faux 4K as opposed to ‘just’ a 1080p model is a question for the intended end user to think about and decide on. Football Picture Mode preserves lifelike skin tones and lush green grass for stunning larger than life big-screen projection of every second of the match. And Football Sound Mode clarifies the announcer's every comment even as you're immersed in the cheering crowd in the open-air stadium atmosphere.

BenQ has made some very good projectors lately. As for 8K we are still a long way from having any kind of affordable 8K projector. And especially since there is no commercially available content. So my suggestion would be to get a 4K one as their prices have fallen greatly and you can enjoy a lot of content on it. 8K is many years away yet. ReplyPlace the BenQ projector at the right distance to maximize visual enjoyment, key in the number and let the “Throw Distance Calculator” do the math for you. The TK800 also shows up a lot of posterisation with 4K UHD discs, where large areas of the same colour within a scene start to show up gradations and posterisation effects. We especially noticed this with the new ‘Vegas’ scenes in Blade Runner 2049 and in the blue skies and clouds of Planet Earth II. The BenQ is operating at 8bit and the picture processing on-board simply cannot deal with high bitrate content and colours like this. It’s another chink in the armour, but we are not sure again that the target audience will be watching this type of content, or even see the issues, but we need to be complete in our assessment. away from the screen or wall, the image will get bigger, and as you push the projector closer to the screen or wall the image will be smaller. To properly Countering the trapezoid effect when the projector must be placed off-center, such as simple placement on top of a table, the vertical keystone function adjusts the image for a professionally squared image. Keystone correction makes it simple to project ideally aligned images from a variety of locations.

On budget projectors, the lamp will usually require replacement before other components have worn out. Typical lamp life ranges from 1,500 hours to 4,000 hours when using eco mode. Setting a projector to maximum brightness may reduce the lifetime of the lamp. The BenQ TK850 3000-lumen projector produces UHD pictures at resolutions of up to 3840 x 2160 pixels. This projector supports HDR10, providing incredibly bright, colorful content. The device has a dynamic Iris and enhanced contrast, making it a good choice for home theaters. This device is factory calibrated and covers the DCI-P3 space quite well. With a dedicated Sport mode, this projector is suitable for watching sports. However, this projector produces above-average fan noise.Your article has been very timely for me. As the parish priest of a local church, I have been looking into way to make liturgy more accessible to everyone. Projected services is a goal of the parish. Your article has explained a great deal about the technology of these visual systems. I really did not understand 4K until reading this review. For me, the most informative part of the article was the side by side visual comparisons you offered. Your article is informative and easy to follow. You have taken something that is very technical and explained it very well. Even the pictures of the various ports and controls were great. Thanks for the article. Reply

As such we didn’t have any problems during our gaming session, responses to our commands were very fast and at no point did we notice any delay in our actions. So if you are a casual gamer as we are and you like to use this projector for mixed use then rest assured that it will serve you very well in this regard. Setup is easy as long as you have a flat surface to rest the BenQ TK800M on, but that will be too low for most silkscreen setups. Thankfully, there is a pair of adjustable feet at the bottom and an adjustable foot at the front to help you adjust the image height. Once you’ve secured your desired angle, its pretty much straightforward from there.What we found disappointing is that while it’s sibling, the HT2550 comes with a suite of image processing features called Cinema Master this is nowhere to be found here. To be honest the TK800 didn’t have it either so it’s not like we lost this feature here or something and it seems that this is kept only for the CineHome series that the HT2550 belongs to and it’s a class above the one we find the TK800M. Instead of that BenQ has added the Football and Sport modes that are supposed to improve skin tones and various colors depending each setting while also improving on the dialogue against the rest of the sound effects. The Vivitek HK2288 is an example of a single-chip DLP projector that offers a similar design and an almost identical set of features. However it uses a larger imaging chip for a slightly better 4K experience, but also costs more, which gives you an idea of the competitiveness of the TK800.