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BenQ has been churning out DLP projectors for years now, but its generally schools and businesses that have been snapping them up. For the Taiwanese corporation, home cinema remains a niche, but its growing fast and is most recently filled by this ag...

Powerful, Quiet, Impressive spec, Good picture performance...

Dodgy standard def performance, Lacklustre black levels...
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The W5000 delivers fantastic image quality, making this a great choice for your home cinema...

Fantastic image quality, bright enough for most rooms, plenty of connections...

No horizontal shift, lacking zoom, only HDMI 1.2...

The W5000 delivers fantastic image quality, making this a great choice for your home cinema...
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It's not often that a BenQ projector finds itself at the top of the price pile in a Group Test. But, fortunately for the BenQ, it has a few tricks up its sleeve.Most notably, this is a Full HD projector. While the jury is out on the value of those extr...

Simple to operate, full HD specification, sharp, detailed, bright, colourful images with good black levels...

Big and bulky, relatively expensive...
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Its not often that a BenQ projector finds itself at the top of the price pile. But, fortunately for the BenQ, it has a few tricks up its sleeve.Most notably, this is a Full HD projector. While the jury is out on the value of those extra pixels on TVs...

Its a shame this isnt cheaper: a fine projector if youre prepared to pay a premium for Full HD...
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When its able to be set-up correctly, the BenQ W5000 displays images with amazing clarity and colour.

Excellent contrast and blacks, extremely sharp, Brilliant Colour system is great...

Only 1.2x zoom, limited vertical shift The Final Word When its able to be set-up correctly, the BenQ W5000 displays images with amazing clarity and colour.

When its able to be set-up correctly, the BenQ W5000 displays images with amazing clarity and colour.
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televisions.com Updated: 2011-08-14 02:16:36
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The BenQ W5000 gives you a lot of projector for the price. The "Dynamic Black" mode renders an impressive contrast ratio, with visible improvements in depth and dynamism. It's easy to forgive the slight deviations in an otherwise natural-looking color reproduction, and the...
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If you think youre having a hard time deciding which projector is the best, think about my job... I actually get to see, use, and calibrate most of them and yet I still have a hard time determining which is "best". Let me tell you that I do NOT envy t...

Support for anamorphic aspect ratio, Excellent post-calibration performance, Great value given street pricing...

Anemic 1.2x zoom lens, No horizontal lens shift, Poor out-of-the-box performance, Overscan anomaly with SD material...

The street price of this projector is around half its retail. Given the quality and level of sharpness this system is capable of - plus the excellent Blacks it can produce thanks to its dual iris system - it's hard not to take notice. The BenQ W5000 is going to rival...
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BenQ has proved rather frustrating in recent times by serving up a run of projectors that impress on many counts, but fall at one particular hurdle or another, be it price or some element of their picture quality. So all we can do as we start to tackle th...

The presence of the noise we’ve just described effectively means you have a choice to make regarding the W5000. If your image tastes are driven predominantly by sharpness, detail and vibrancy, then at £1,359.25 the W5000 is just about as big a...
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From a competitive standpoint, the W5000, which seems to sell for around $3000, has only a couple of serious rivals. Those rivals are the Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB, and the Sony VW40. Each really does have some strengths and weaknesses compared to t...
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As I think about these two models and view them side by side, it is difficult to say one is "better" than the other. They are both great projectors, but they are definitely different. The W5000 produces an image that is incrementally more dr...
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projectorreviews.com Updated: 2011-08-14 02:16:56
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BenQ does support an anamorphic lens add on, while the Sony does not. As noted with other projectors, you can add the necessary support with an outboard image processor, but they are expensive, and significantly alter the value proposition.
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