BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour 2 Posted on November 17, 2016 By Art Feierman 1. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review - BenQ HT6050 Projector Overview - BenQ HT6050 Highlights2. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Special Features - Interchangeable Lenses - High Speed Color Wheel for minimal Rainbow Effect - Lens Shift3. BenQ HT6050 Home Projector Review – Special Features 2 - Creative Frame Interpolation - CFI - aka "smooth motion" - HT6050 THX and ISF certifications - Brilliant Color - 3D - Optional Wireless Kit – Wireless HDMI - Is the HT6050 A Projector for Gamers4. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour - Hardware Overview - HT6050 Control Panel and Lens Shift Controls - HT6050 Inputs and Connectors5. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour 2 - Backlit Remote control - HT6050 Menus - Lens Throw6. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Picture Quality - Out of the Box Color and Picture - HT6050 - Handling Skin Tones - HT6050 Black Levels and Dark Shadow Detail - Dark Shadow Detail7. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Picture Quality 2 - HT6050 Handling HDTV and Sports Content - HT6050 Overall Picture Quality8. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Performance - HT6050 Brightness in Lumens - By Color Mode - Affect of Lamp Power on Brightness - Image Noise - HT6050 Audible Noise9. BenQ HT6050 Projector – Calibration & Settings - BenQ HT6050 Calibration Presets notes - Pre-Calibration Color Temp (standard) over IRE Range - BenQ HT6050 Pre- and Post-Calibration Settings, By Mode - Color Temp - THX (User 1) Mode Pre-Calibration - THX Alternate Mode Mode Pre-Calibration - Vivid Mode (User 2) Pre-Calibration - Post-Calibration Color Temperature10. Benq HT6050 Projector – Advanced Calibration Information - CMS for THX Mode (User 1) Post-Calibration - CMS for THX Alternate Mode Post-Calibration - THX Mode (User 1) Post-Calibration Charts - THX Alternate Mode Post-Calibration Charts - Vivid Mode (User 2) Post-Calibration Charts11. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Summary - Summary - HT6050 Pros - HT6050 Cons12. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Specifications BenQ HT6050 Projector Review – Hardware: Remote control, Menus, Lamp Life, and Lens Throw Backlit Remote controlI like the BenQ remote. It feels good in my medium sized hands. The backlighting comes on at the touch of any button – I really like that, since I have lots of remotes. Overall, the backlighting is reasonably bright but I might wish for a little more Still, this is better than say many Optoma remotes with their blue LEDs that are massively too bright, so bright that it makes it very hard to eyeball adjustments to the picture, because of the brightness. Range is definitely acceptable when using the standard (or short throw) lenses and a bit better than the 8 meters (26 feet) that BenQ claims. That said, for those needing a long throw lens, depending on placement, in a larger room, the remote might – repeat – might, come up short on range, say if you are sitting 12 feet from the screen, but the projector is 40 feet back (that distance is easily doable with their lenses and say a 120” screen. Great stuff: First, this remote offers HDMI-Link, so that you can control other devices with this remote – such as my Samsung 4K UHD Blu-ray player, or conversely, control the HT6050 from other devices that support HDMI-Link. Click Image to EnlargeHT6050 MenusBelow in this image player you will find each of the BenQ main menus, as well as as some minor ones. That said, BenQ doesn’t use a lot of sub-menus, instead favoring arrow key selection on a main menu, such as to toggle between different picture modes. With some projectors menus, you can get a sub-menu with each of the modes listed, often allowing you to jump directly to the one you want. Overall, although I prefer more sub-menus, myself, no serious complaints over BenQ’s menu system. Also as a reviewer, I spend far, far more time messing with menus than any typical user. I consider the BenQ’s menu structure to be better than average, with most things easy to find. Menu images still to come Lens Throw Lens Throw Chart – HT6050 Standard Zoom Lens 100″ drag, 16:9 Closest (Wide Angle) 11 feet 2 inches Furthest (Telephoto) 14 feet 0 inches We do not measure lens throw. This data is directly from the HT6050 User manual. As most projectors without interchangeable lenses (in this price range) tend to have 1.5:1 out to 2.1:1 zooms, those lenses have more range. But the BenQ standard lens is in the sweet spot, with most other lenses allowing no closer than 9.75 feet and out to 15 feet (except for the 2.1:1 lenses which go out to about 20 feet with a 100″ screen). 1. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review - BenQ HT6050 Projector Overview - BenQ HT6050 Highlights2. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Special Features - Interchangeable Lenses - High Speed Color Wheel for minimal Rainbow Effect - Lens Shift3. BenQ HT6050 Home Projector Review – Special Features 2 - Creative Frame Interpolation - CFI - aka "smooth motion" - HT6050 THX and ISF certifications - Brilliant Color - 3D - Optional Wireless Kit – Wireless HDMI - Is the HT6050 A Projector for Gamers4. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour - Hardware Overview - HT6050 Control Panel and Lens Shift Controls - HT6050 Inputs and Connectors5. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour 2 - Backlit Remote control - HT6050 Menus - Lens Throw6. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Picture Quality - Out of the Box Color and Picture - HT6050 - Handling Skin Tones - HT6050 Black Levels and Dark Shadow Detail - Dark Shadow Detail7. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Picture Quality 2 - HT6050 Handling HDTV and Sports Content - HT6050 Overall Picture Quality8. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Performance - HT6050 Brightness in Lumens - By Color Mode - Affect of Lamp Power on Brightness - Image Noise - HT6050 Audible Noise9. BenQ HT6050 Projector – Calibration & Settings - BenQ HT6050 Calibration Presets notes - Pre-Calibration Color Temp (standard) over IRE Range - BenQ HT6050 Pre- and Post-Calibration Settings, By Mode - Color Temp - THX (User 1) Mode Pre-Calibration - THX Alternate Mode Mode Pre-Calibration - Vivid Mode (User 2) Pre-Calibration - Post-Calibration Color Temperature10. Benq HT6050 Projector – Advanced Calibration Information - CMS for THX Mode (User 1) Post-Calibration - CMS for THX Alternate Mode Post-Calibration - THX Mode (User 1) Post-Calibration Charts - THX Alternate Mode Post-Calibration Charts - Vivid Mode (User 2) Post-Calibration Charts11. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Summary - Summary - HT6050 Pros - HT6050 Cons12. BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Specifications BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Hardware Tour BenQ HT6050 Home Theater Projector Review – Picture Quality