Celine2020
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The spec that actually matters on the BenQ W5850 is not the 2,600 lumens, it is the throw. A 120-inch diagonal from less than nine feet is the number that decides whether a projector works in a real house. Loads of people have the wall for a big screen and nowhere sensible to put a long-throw machine except directly behind someone's head.
The rest reads as expected for the money. It is a 4K DLP with a laser engine, 100% of DCI-P3, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and 3D support, motorised shift, zoom and focus, HDMI CEC and eARC, and it will stretch to 200 inches if you have the wall for it. The preview frames it as the W5800 with a shorter lens, which sounds about right, and MSRP is $6,999.
What is not on the sheet is a contrast figure, and on a DLP at this price that is the first number I would want. 2,600 lumens is generous for a blacked-out room and marginal once you turn a lamp on, so the black level and the tone mapping will decide how HDR content actually looks, not the lumen count. The motorised focus is undersold in every writeup I have read. Being able to stand at the screen and nail focus, rather than walking back and forth squinting at a test pattern, is worth real money when you are aligning to a masked frame.
At seven grand it is up against USTs that put 100 inches on the wall from a foot away, and against a step up into JVC territory. Has anyone had a W5800 and a W5850 in the same room to see what the shorter lens costs at the corners?
The rest reads as expected for the money. It is a 4K DLP with a laser engine, 100% of DCI-P3, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and 3D support, motorised shift, zoom and focus, HDMI CEC and eARC, and it will stretch to 200 inches if you have the wall for it. The preview frames it as the W5800 with a shorter lens, which sounds about right, and MSRP is $6,999.
What is not on the sheet is a contrast figure, and on a DLP at this price that is the first number I would want. 2,600 lumens is generous for a blacked-out room and marginal once you turn a lamp on, so the black level and the tone mapping will decide how HDR content actually looks, not the lumen count. The motorised focus is undersold in every writeup I have read. Being able to stand at the screen and nail focus, rather than walking back and forth squinting at a test pattern, is worth real money when you are aligning to a masked frame.
At seven grand it is up against USTs that put 100 inches on the wall from a foot away, and against a step up into JVC territory. Has anyone had a W5800 and a W5850 in the same room to see what the shorter lens costs at the corners?
