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Overall the BenQ does what it sets out to do and that is to be a party centre-piece for BBQ’s in the garden while watching the World Cup or 4K premiership football via Sky or BT. It is designed to be used and then put away, projected against a white wall or bed sheet.
Precision 7-element and low-dispersion lens coating help in minimizing the chromatic aberration ensuring brilliant clarity and in-depth detail. Brightness Uniformity. Our TK800 sample measured a very good 82% uniformity, better than the 73% we saw on the HT2250 test unit. Since this is essentially the same light engine with a different color wheel, we suspect the difference may be due to manufacturing variance. Adding on, there’s an extra-added light bulb on the inside that keeps the projector economical due to its light saving mode. A little more is always better and if you have worries about the budget, it’s obvious that the BenQ TK800 would be the best choice.It gives superior and immaculate image quality by avoiding inherent alignment issues up to the perfection that you won’t notice any blurriness, shaking, glitch, or freeze. That’s because the optical system of this projector uses premium quality glass to provide realistic-looking images.
As mentioned above, both these models perform well and feature inspiring 4K HDR image quality so you can enjoy the best of the gaming performances within the ease of your home. The projector features Football & Sport modes yielding crispiest sounds that’ll surely life-like action giving you a feel like you’re sitting in the stadium.The Optoma UHD60 is similar in performance, but significantly different in price. Other projectors to ponder... The TK800 also shows up a lot of posterisation with 4K UHD discs, where large areas of the same colour within a scene start to show up gradations and posterisation effects. We especially noticed this with the new ‘Vegas’ scenes in Blade Runner 2049 and in the blue skies and clouds of Planet Earth II. The BenQ is operating at 8bit and the picture processing on-board simply cannot deal with high bitrate content and colours like this. It’s another chink in the armour, but we are not sure again that the target audience will be watching this type of content, or even see the issues, but we need to be complete in our assessment.
However, the HT2550 we reviewed was one of the first production units off the line. BenQ has done a firmware upgrade to that model since our review. Since our test unit of the HT2550 was returned after the review, we have not seen the latest HT2550 with the new firmware. Based on the improved performance of the TK800 we think the HT2550 is worth a second look. It is quite possible that there have been some QC tweaks in manufacturing that account for the improved image sharpness and brightness uniformity of the TK800 over the early edition of the HT2550. If that is the case the HT2550s being shipped today may look better than the one we tested.BenQ market the TK800 projector as a home entertainment and sports model and not a home cinema machine. This means that it is designed to work at its best in normal living rooms with light coloured walls and ceilings and some ambient light. Or you could even use it outdoors shining on to a white sheet or the side of your house for a World Cup party. It is supposed to create an image ‘good enough’ to enjoy big screen sporting events, or gaming with your friends and is not a critical home cinema viewing device for movie viewing in a bat cave dedicated theatre. This one is considered the best for sports watching and other Sport within the facility of your home but a stadium-like experience. The BenQ TK800M is a little better than the other one considering the specifications. Both look quite the same but the TK800M needs more room to show and throw the best of its performance.
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