BenQ W20000 Home Cinema Projector Review: General Performance-2

Note, based on Mike's measurements and calibration, he came up with a Tint setting of -19, using filters. After much watching, and most of the photo shoot, I came to feel that skin tones were just a tiny bit too pink for my taste. I played around and found that to my eye, the tint setting was better in the 13-16 range. I settled on a recommendation of -15. A change of 1 number is barely perceptable to the eye, and even the full range from 0 to -20 is not a major shift in the tint of the image. This is definitely a fine-tuning control.

The end result proved to be an improved set of numbers, and corresponding color accuracy for movie watching. The only real problem is that while the grays adjust easily,

The result is pure whites and near whites remain just a touch too cool (blue). Still a deviation of 400 odd lumens, only at the top of the range, is very minor. It is, enough though, that, for example, I'll definitely give the InFocus IN83 a slight advantage in overall color accuracy, by comparison. In the low ranges, below 20 IRE, the opposite occurs, with a small shift to warm (red). Again, these have only slight impact on the overall color balance. Most projectors tend to shift color balance a bit in the low registers (20 IRE and under), although we are working with the extremely dark grays, and there are limits to our equipment's accuracy down there. (That's one reason why I cut off our measurements at 30 IRE, and don't show numbers below that.