There is a preset button below these, and brings up a choice of the 5 preset modes - Cinema, Home Theater, Family Room, Photo and Gaming.
Then comes the three user savable settings. You can tweak your color, brightness, clarity, and many other options and save them. You'll probably want settings for fully dark, as well as ambient light viewing, as well as maybe a different setting for movies, vs say sports.
All that is great, but the BenQ has lots of extra goodies on their menus, and it is time to explore some of the more interesting features that can impact the overall image quality.
Hitting the Menu button brings up a rather plain looking bar with 5 main menu options:
Picture has all the usual settings, brightness, contrast, etc., but also the Preset modes, which you can see on the next image. As noted, on this pre-production projector, I found the best setting to be the Family Room preset.
Below the preset option, are the extended settings which brings up separate color controls for Red, Green, Blue, Yellow (and in some modes, White).
I was able to get really good color by dialing down the red a bit, the blue up a touch, and yellow up a couple of clicks.
The second major menu choice on the Main menu, is the Display menu. As you can see, you can choose the aspect ratio as well as change sources, but also select Picture in Picture, or Picture On Picture (which gives you two side by side images of the same size).
Let's skip to the Advanced Menu. Here's where the real fine tuning can be done. If you are having the BenQ PE8720 projector calibrated, much of the "action" is here, most notably the white balance fine tuning which provides separate contrast and brightness controls for each of Red, Green, and Blue, and a choice of Warm, Normal, or Cool color mode. (For most of my testing I used either Normal or Cool, as the projector, as noted comes out of the box, a bit strong on reds.
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Menu Main
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Menu Picture
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Preset Family Room Mode
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Color Menu
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Menu display
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Menu Advanced
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BenQ PE8720 Projector Menu
Advanced RGB