BenQ W1070 3D Gaming & Movie Projector Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,419 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a very exciting projector from Ben Q so
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there's some shipping labels there's some stuff going on here they don't say
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a whole lot other than that this is a 1080p projector and the other really
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cool thing about it isn't even on here so this is the
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w1070 and I wonder if when we open it up
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we will find out what is so interesting and awesome and cool about this
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projector so I know I don't normally talk about pricing but I should start
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with a one interesting point and that is that this projector is aimed to be
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priced around 1,000 bucks so 1080p
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projector th000 bucks sounds pretty good sounds interesting right okay things are
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about to get a lot more interesting and
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if you guys have already read the description of the video then I guess the suspense isn't really ouch doing
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anything for you this is a 1080p 3D
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projector I'm going let that sink in for a minute 1080p 3D projector so it is
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fully compatible with 1080p Blu-rays at 24 FPS it is also compatible with a new
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standard called NVIDIA 3D TV play and
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what that does here's our remote here's some baggies I can see this was a
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resealed unit this is an eval unit so comes with like a Euro Asian power cord
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here so I'll go ahead and put that in there comes with a VGA cable of all
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things come on Ben Q should come with an HDMI cable especially because this
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projector has multiple HDMI inputs so
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right Blu-ray movies also compatible with games so
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NVIDIA has an extra driver that you can buy as an add-on that makes this thing
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fully capable of supporting their 3D Vision capable game titles so let's take
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a close look at the projector itself so
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let's start with the remote the remote's fairly straightforward Affair this is
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pretty much what you'd come to expect so it's got your power your menu navigation
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your Source selection your smar Eco Smart Eco is cool because it does a few
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different things to help you save power and help you keep your bulb life lasting
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longer so when the there is no Source detected it'll automatically turn it on
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which is very very cool it also allows you to automatically save power with
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certain cool features like when you pause the movie it'll just turn it
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yourself on and you can save about 70% of your bulb power which is very very
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neat digital Zoom brightness contrast color tint 3D settings 3D invert test
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freeze mute okay various stuff like that
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now the projector itself so here is the lens cover which you're going to want to
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go ahead and put like that it has active cooling like most DP projectors do
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there's your infrared receiver for the remote and then this guy right here is
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just your little adjust guy so it's going to have Auto Keystone which means
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that even if you're pointing it up at an angle to your wall you don't have to
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worry about it ending up with you know a trap or a yeah I think trapezoid shaped
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image or anything like that you just go ahead and adjust it to whatever angle
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you want it at more ventilation holes here on the side it actually kind of
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looks like an Alienware computer on the side with these uh with this pattern
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here and then on the other side more ventilation there as well on the back we
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find a whole bunch of different input so we've got audio in and out it does have
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built-in speakers but as you've come to expect from projector speakers they're
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nothing special it has um component in it has your your
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standard RCA in it's got S Video in VGA
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seral as well as a 12volt trigger mini
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USB and two HDMI ports AC power in is
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here and your Kensington lock is here overall build quality feels pretty good
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for like a what is you know a fairly low price point projector in spite of the
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very cool features it has oh yeah it's got one other thing here so you can adjust the uh the way the project ctor
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sits with this foot here as well as this
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one right here this one is fixed though so you do all of your adjustments just
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like that to make sure the image is level and all that good stuff here we
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have a couple of different things so number one is your focus there's your focus wheel right there number two is
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your Zoom so you can zoom the image a little bit number three check that out
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lens shift considering that this is a again a th000 projector lens shift is a
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pretty cool thing to see so that allows you to actually not just sort of adjust
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the angles like this and point it up and down but it allows you to use the Optics
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built into the projector to actually move the image up and down that's
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high-end Optics stuff considering again the price point that we're seeing all
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your menu navigation buttons that were on the remote are duplicated here as
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well as your power button now this is kind of interesting because they've
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covered this up for some reason but uh this is one of the main selling points
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of the monitor is the 3D gaming support
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so give me a second get this
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off so presumably there must be a reason that that's covered up but I'm it's kind
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of a shame it says NVIDIA 3D Vision ready on that sticker but maybe what
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they mean is NVIDIA's 3D TV play so
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again that's with that other driver and it supports a lot of different 3D modes
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so whether it's from a Blu-ray player or whether it's from a graphics card you
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can do 720p 60 HZ in 3D over HDMI you
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can actually use some of the other connectors for 3D including VGA but you
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won't get the same kind of resolution the same kind of quality as you with HDMI and given that HDMI cables cost
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nothing these days and basically use HDMI um and then at 10 ADP you get up to
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24 FPS and
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uh oh yeah I should explain a little bit more about the Eco modes that it
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includes so not only does it dim the light when you're not doing anything or
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when the image isn't moving it seems like it's paused or whatever else but it also is able to dim the lights in darken
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scenes which will actually give you some of that better 10,000 to1 contrast ratio
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that it boasts as well as saving you power and the 2,000 Lumen brightness
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actually allows it to project up to a 200 inch image which would be bigger
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than the white screen behind me no problem so I'm going to try this guy out
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as soon as I get a chance using either the included 3D glasses or well using
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the included 3D glasses and the NVIDIA driver which is available as a 14-day
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trial I will let you guys know how it goes I'm not expecting gaming to be the
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best experience in the world at 24 FPS but I'm really excited to try it out
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with a 3D movie at 1080P and then see
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how the 720p 60fps gaming experience
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goes because this could be the most
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versatile projector that you can buy for
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around 1,000 bucks now and I might be holding it in my hands I'm very excited
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about it so the glasses are available as an add-on they're not actually that
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expensive uh these are active shutter glasses and they're powered by batteries
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which go around here okay they come with
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batteries you just ripped those out thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look at the w710 from Ben q and I hope you guys are as excited as me
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about how this thing performs in 3D