BenQ W20000 Projector: Physical Tour

The vertical lens shift has a 0 offset. Translated, that means that you may place the projector (vertically) from even with the top of your screen surface, to even with the bottom of your screen surface (and anywhere in between). That's a good amount of range, although not quite as much as most 3LCD projectors, it is a major improvement over competing DLP projectors, which have no lens shift at all!

Moving to the top of the W20000 1080p projector, (looking from the rear), you will find a well laid out control panel, consisting of three indicator lights (power, temperature, and lamp). Next comes the four navigation buttons for the menus, laid out in the usual diamond shape. When not in the menu system, the left and right arrow buttons double for adjusting keystone correction (best not to use), and the up and down arrows control the motorized lens shift (up and down).

Next come two rows of three buttons each. The first row has the Power button (press once for On, twice to shut down), on the left, the Menu button in the middle, and the Source button (to choose a source), on the right.

The second row, from the left, has the Preset button, that selects between the various preset color modes (Cinema, Dynamic...), in the middle is the Exit button for the menus, and on the right, the Enter button (also for the menus).

There's lots of space between buttons, and all considered, the control panel is laid out logically!

That takes us to the back of the BenQ W20000, for a look at the input panel. From the left, the W20000 starts with two HDMI inputs, support 24fps. Note, that the W20000 HDMI inputs are only HDMI 1.2, not 1.3. This means that the BenQ's HDMI cannot work with Deep Color, which requires HDMI 1.3.

In addition, the W20000 has two component video inputs (one set of three RCA jacks - R,G,B, and a set of 5 BNC connectors). An analog computer signal can be fed through the BNC connectors. There's also the usual S-Video and composite video inputs, and a 12v screen trigger to raise/lower a motorized screen, or to control a masking system. There is also the obligatory RS-232 to allow control of the projector from a computer or room controller. All considered, the W20000 has a pretty standard set of inputs.All of this hardware informationis well and good, but as someone probably once said: "It's the picture stoopid." So, time to "turn the page" and we'll consider the BenQ W20000's image quality.