BenQ LX60ST or LW61ST Laser Short Throw Data Projector Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the war zone
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lx60 XT projector from Ben Q this is not
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right this is the wxga model the one that's actually inside here is the XGA
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model this is just a sample unit so you guys don't worry too much about what
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this looks like because yours will come in a nice shiny new retail package so
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inside we find a couple of things honestly I can't even begin to speculate
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what the actual accessories included with a retail one would be but I would say probably it comes with a power cord
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and probably it comes with some kind of video cable it will also come with a
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remote that includes a laser pointer so you can see it's covered with warnings
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about lasers and like stuff o um aha
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laser oh oh the batteries are not
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installed too bad okay so that includ a bunch of functionality but you're
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actually not limited to using this remote you can even use with the dongle
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that you can buy separately just I think it's like 60 bucks or something like that you can use your iPhone to control
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everything about it and you can even stream images slideshows or PowerPoint
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presentations and you can just like flip between the slides like this and stream
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them directly to the wireless dongle which is kind of cool it actually works
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with a bunch of NQ projectors if you check out their app on the iTunes Store
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App Store whatever it's called whatever it is it's not called Google
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Play because it's only for Apple but if you check out the app it actually has a
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list of which projectors are compatible with the dongle and the
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app now this is a very cool projector
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will you buy one the answer is probably not will this technology trickle down
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and will you eventually be able to buy something like it the answer is quite
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possibly because this is more of a corporate skew more for
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pre presentation Halls schools uh stuff
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like that and less about the actual individual end user here so this is a
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solid state laser projector which has a whole whack load of different advantages
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um slick standing in front of my notes in including the fact that
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the I mean I can't even call it bulb replacement estimated time so it they
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estimate BenQ estimates that you get 10,000 hours of use out of this before
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you will actually have to replace the DLP wheel now it also has an eight
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segment wheel besides the laser backlighting it has an 8- segment wheel
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which compared to most projectors in this kind of a product class right now
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are using a six- segment wheel which gives you better color reproduction as
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well as absolutely Wicked 880,000 to1
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contrast ratio and we're not talking like funky Dynamic contrast ratios we're
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talking actual contrast ratio we had this fired up before I put it back in
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the box and I got to say guys for a DLP projector it absolutely blew me away in
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terms of the vividness of the colors like even looking at the Windows desktop
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the Windows logo in the middle the green and the yellow are distinctly different
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and they really pop even on this like crappy off-white wall so that was very
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cool about it um no moving Parts other
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than the fan why do you have no moving Parts written down there okay well
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forget that it's a short throw projector which means that from here to the wall
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we were able to project an image that was about from here to about here and
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here to here so big old huge image the
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Practical limits of this in a dark environment are about 300 in but I'd say
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probably closer to 100 to 150 in if
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you're in a more brightly lit kind of
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environment what else are we missing here I want to make sure we don't miss
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anything right it's available in XGA or
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wxga and aha it's green so no Mercury
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since there is no traditional proor lamp
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there's no Mercury inside the projector lamp so that means that if it's you know
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thrown away or disposed of in any particular way you don't have to worry
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about the environmental impact of that Beyond just the fact that it's you know
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plastic and you shouldn't throw away Electronics more than you absolutely have to finally threeyear parts and
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labor warranty and near instant on and off so it takes about 3 seconds to turn
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off and about 6 seconds to turn back on immediately which is very cool compared
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to some of the uber slow traditionally
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back lit project that we've seen in the past oh look at that engineering sample
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sweet also has a 20 W speaker built in and let's go ahead and take a bit of
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a product tour here so here's the focus wheel it's got big old
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grippy neral Shenanigans going on here
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all right it's got like kind of a nice blue thing going on you can actually Mount this any way you want it can even
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mount in portrait mode and it is compatible with that so you can you I
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mean I can't imagine you know what leave a comment guys leave a comment if you
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can think of a reason to mount a projector in portrait mode and have it
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be like like a portrait image like right
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side up I I cannot cannnot imagine why you'd want that you can actually see the
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internals a little bit here you can see some electronics and whatnots and HOAs
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and here you can see some heat sinks and fans and cooling stuff going on it
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doesn't get super loud but I mean it's not silent or anything either in terms
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of inputs we've got a pretty wide variety we've got audio in one and two
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audio out as well as a microphone Jack we've got our traditional um old analog
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stuff so you got your composite you got your s video you got your audio right
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and left you've got up to two VGA in a
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monitor out HDMI in two USB ports so
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that's where you'll plug in that wireless dongle which actually looks a
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little something like this you can also read uh certain things
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directly off of it if you check out my gp2 video I show you some of the cool
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things you can do with benq's built-in software also have a Serial Port mini us
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BB Lan and finally a 12vt trigger
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finally again the power and finally once more the Kensington
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lock I think that pretty much covers it so stay tuned guys cuz I'm going to be
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doing a proper NC Tech tips on this particular model so this is just going
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