Comments on: BenQ W7000 Update – Part 3 http://www.projectorreviews.com/blog/2012/01/02/benq-w7000-update-part-3/ Thoughts on home theater projectors being reviewed, related products, and tips for users Fri, 03 May 2013 09:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: John http://www.projectorreviews.com/blog/2012/01/02/benq-w7000-update-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-240892 John Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:09:18 +0000 http://www.projectorreviews.com/blog/?p=1552#comment-240892 Hi Art, I'm interested in DLP projectors such as this BenQ mostly due to the increased sharpness over 3LCD projectors. I have the Epson 8350 and find it to be a fantastic projector in most areas, except the sharpness is pretty disappointing when a PC is plugged in via HDMI. Text can be hard to read due to the softness of the image and focus rolloff. I would love it if you would consider incorporating a sharpness test into your reviews that involved hooking up a PC, as the small details and text on a computer desktop require much more sharpness than something like a PS3 does, and this situation is a very good test of a projector's capabilities (and one that is often overlooked, it seems). I actually exchanged my 8350 for this reason, but found that the replacement projector had the exact same lack of sharpness and focus uniformity; easily apparent when viewing a PC desktop. Hi Art, I’m interested in DLP projectors such as this BenQ mostly due to the increased sharpness over 3LCD projectors. I have the Epson 8350 and find it to be a fantastic projector in most areas, except the sharpness is pretty disappointing when a PC is plugged in via HDMI. Text can be hard to read due to the softness of the image and focus rolloff. I would love it if you would consider incorporating a sharpness test into your reviews that involved hooking up a PC, as the small details and text on a computer desktop require much more sharpness than something like a PS3 does, and this situation is a very good test of a projector’s capabilities (and one that is often overlooked, it seems).

I actually exchanged my 8350 for this reason, but found that the replacement projector had the exact same lack of sharpness and focus uniformity; easily apparent when viewing a PC desktop.

]]> By: ol2 http://www.projectorreviews.com/blog/2012/01/02/benq-w7000-update-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-238293 ol2 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:42:50 +0000 http://www.projectorreviews.com/blog/?p=1552#comment-238293 Thanks for the update. I hope you get something better than the 1.0 firmware shipped with the first batch of W7000s. That still had serious issues switching into 3D mode and often needed a power-off-reset when it got really confused. Thanks for the update. I hope you get something better than the 1.0 firmware shipped with the first batch of W7000s. That still had serious issues switching into 3D mode and often needed a power-off-reset when it got really confused.

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