Projector Reviews – General Performance 4 Posted on October 7, 2013 By Art Feierman 1. BenQ W100 Entry Level Home Theater Digital Projector Review - Overview2. BenQ W100 Entry Level Home Theater Digital Projector Review – Physical Overview3. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality - Color accuracy4. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality 1 - Contrast and Black Levels5. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality 2 - W100 High Definition Performance - Handling Ambient Light6. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance - Menus - User Memory Settings - BenQ W100 as a Business Projector7. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 1 - Remote Control - Lens Throw and Lens Shift/Offset8. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 2 - Screen Door Effect and Rainbows9. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 3 - Light Leakage - Audible Noise Levels - Projector Brightness - Lamp Life and Replacement - Projector Screen Recommendations10. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 411. Projector Reviews – General Performance 4 - Calibration - Image Noise12. BenQ W-100 Projector – Warranty13. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons - Projector Pros - Projector Cons14. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons 1 - Typical Attributes15. BenQ W100 Projector Specifications CalibrationI’ve included a couple of pictures of the measurements, but here’s the long and short of it. If production units perform like this out of the box, this projector is truly ready to go, without any tweaking, (except slightly on brightness and contrast). The first image shot off of my laptop shows out of the box settings (Cinema mode, Economic – low – power, color temperature T4) at 50 IRE (medium gray). The second image is at 80IRE (light gray) For movie watching a projector should have a color temperature of 6500K. (Since projector lamps are more like 10,000K, projectors measure much brighter in their brightest modes than when color is properly set for viewing. That’s one of the reasons why you usually read that home theater projectors in their best modes typically produce less than 40% of their claimed brightness.) Color will not be consistant over the brightness range – that is, if you project a white image, it might have a slight warm shift to red, while a medium gray might shift slightly to blue, etc. So there is always variation as you measure from full white (100 I.R.E) down to the dark grays (30 I.R.E in my case, due to limits of my equipment). The W100 digital projector’s performance in Cinema mode (and low power – which can also affect the color slightly) was about as close to perfect as any projector out of the box: Cinema Mode IRE 100: 6596K IRE 80: 6516K IRE 50: 6539K IRE 30: 6323K Image NoiseAll DLP projectors produce some motion noise in dark areas, the BenQ as expected had some. At no point, unless you like standing 3 feet from a 100″ screen should it be something that you notice and bothers you. If it does, you really need to be looking at much higher end projectors. 1. BenQ W100 Entry Level Home Theater Digital Projector Review - Overview2. BenQ W100 Entry Level Home Theater Digital Projector Review – Physical Overview3. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality - Color accuracy4. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality 1 - Contrast and Black Levels5. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review – Image Quality 2 - W100 High Definition Performance - Handling Ambient Light6. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance - Menus - User Memory Settings - BenQ W100 as a Business Projector7. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 1 - Remote Control - Lens Throw and Lens Shift/Offset8. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 2 - Screen Door Effect and Rainbows9. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 3 - Light Leakage - Audible Noise Levels - Projector Brightness - Lamp Life and Replacement - Projector Screen Recommendations10. BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 411. Projector Reviews – General Performance 4 - Calibration - Image Noise12. BenQ W-100 Projector – Warranty13. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons - Projector Pros - Projector Cons14. BenQ W100 Digital Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons 1 - Typical Attributes15. BenQ W100 Projector Specifications BenQ W100 Projector Reviews – General Performance 4 BenQ W-100 Projector – Warranty