BenQ W10000

BenQ has been one of the more elusive projector manufacturers for the home theater market.

Video manufacturers have been severely challenged recently by the drop in prices of all the new technologies. Projectors have not been immune to the pressure. The W10000 is BenQ's first single-chip 1080p projector, coming to market at a time when the...

Video manufacturers have been severely challenged recently by the drop in prices of all the new technologies. Projectors have not been immune to the pressure. The W10000 is BenQ's first single-chip 1080p projector, coming to market at a time when the...

I've had a soft spot for BenQ projectors since I reviewed its PE8700 back in 2004. It was the first DLP projector that I felt truly demonstrated the potential of the technology to dominate the video projector market.

Update 1/29/07: The initial posting of this review indicated that the W10000 has a 1.35:1 power zoom and focus lens, when in fact the zoom range of the lens is 1.15:1. This means that the W10000 can produce a 100" diagonal 16:9 image from 13.1' to...

There are, of course some improvements in the W10000 over the PE-8720, including the fact that the W10000 home theater projector is ISF Certified

BENQ is up to its old tricks here with the W10000 single-chip 1080p DLP projector. But that's A-OK with us since the trick is offering DLP projectors that compete with the big boys for a lot less money. The W10000 joins Optoma's H81 as one of the very...

$8,999 1920x1080 single-chip DLP Key Connections: One HDMI input and two component inputs Features We Like: 1080p single-chip DLP at a good price, Faroudja deintlerlacing with DCDi, motorized zoom, focus and vertical lens shift Features We Miss: Even...

Highlights: Single-chip 1080p DLP, one HDMI input and two component inputs, Faroudja deintlerlacing with DCDi, motorized zoom, focus and vertical lens shift.