Nike Kidman
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The W5850 review is out and the interesting part is the throw. BenQ rates the lens at 1-1.6:1 with motorised zoom, focus and shift, and the reviewer notes it will fill a 200-inch screen from 14.5 feet where the older W5800 needed 22 feet for the same picture. Shift range is quoted at plus or minus 50% vertical and 15% horizontal. If you have a shallow room and a big screen, that is the whole pitch, and it is a real one.
Then you get to connections. Two HDMI 2.0b inputs, one of them carrying eARC. At $6,999 in 2026. That caps you at 18Gbps, so 4K120 is off the table, and with only two inputs an AVR or switcher is not optional, it is part of the purchase. For a light-controlled film room fed by a single processor, fine, nobody will notice. If you had any thought of plugging a console in directly and playing at high frame rate, this is not the projector.
The rest reads well. Laser phosphor rated 20,000 to 25,000 hours, 100% DCI-P3 without a filter so SDR and HDR get the same light output, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, 3D still on board, three year warranty, 23.1 pounds. BenQ claims 2,600 ANSI lumens and the reviewer measured just under 200 nits peak white on screen, which tells you this is a small to medium dark room product regardless of the lumen number on the box.
Would you take the throw advantage and live with 2.0b, or is a $7,000 projector without HDMI 2.1 in 2026 simply out of the question?
Then you get to connections. Two HDMI 2.0b inputs, one of them carrying eARC. At $6,999 in 2026. That caps you at 18Gbps, so 4K120 is off the table, and with only two inputs an AVR or switcher is not optional, it is part of the purchase. For a light-controlled film room fed by a single processor, fine, nobody will notice. If you had any thought of plugging a console in directly and playing at high frame rate, this is not the projector.
The rest reads well. Laser phosphor rated 20,000 to 25,000 hours, 100% DCI-P3 without a filter so SDR and HDR get the same light output, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, 3D still on board, three year warranty, 23.1 pounds. BenQ claims 2,600 ANSI lumens and the reviewer measured just under 200 nits peak white on screen, which tells you this is a small to medium dark room product regardless of the lumen number on the box.
Would you take the throw advantage and live with 2.0b, or is a $7,000 projector without HDMI 2.1 in 2026 simply out of the question?
