BenQTK800 True 4K UHD HDR Home Entertainment Projector, DLP, 3000 Lumens, HMDI, Football Mode - White/Blue

This is a great projector. The first thing my wife said is “how did we get along without it?”We had a very good Panasonic. But the fan noise was bad and we wanted to move up to 4k without breaking the bank. This projector was on sale so that worked out.The colors are vivid. They look fantastic. There is a bit of coldness because of the hot whites, but for the most part you don’t really notice it. The halo is annoying. For our 140 inch screen we have about 8 inches of halo around the screen. We have 5 inches of black framing so only a bit is noticeable, but why is there a halo? I don’t get it. In any event - we don’t notice it much, but I see how it could be an issue.We have not tested 4k yet. I need newer hdmi to send the signal. So my review is on traditional blu ray an PS4 content.What a great deal. Daytime viewing is good, which is what we wanted (we get daylight inour theater).Very happy. :)

I could not be more pleased!First, let me start of by telling you about the system I had in place before this:- 1,200 lumen DLP projector by LG; 1080p with 3D DLP Link support- Vizio soundbar with wireless subwoofer- Xbox OneMy Xbox One and sound bar are located directly below the screen in my living room. The Xbox connects to an HDMI port I installed into the floor, under the entertainment center, which connects via a 25 foot HDMI 2.2 cable that runs under the house to a second port installed under the corner of our sectional. This connects to the projector via a second 25 foot cable that runs up the wall and across the ceiling to the projector itself.My screen is a DIY setup, painted directly onto the wall using Behr Silver Screen Grey paint and a custom wood frame.Our old projector did fine at first. It was very entry-level because this was our first one and I didn't want to spend too much money on a learning experience. We've had it for about 4 years and I've learned a LOT.** FAST FORWARD TO YESTERDAY **With 4K becoming a "thing," I wanted to upgrade my living room projector. One of the main issues we had with the old projector was, at 1,200 lumens it was all but unwatchable during the day or with ANY lights on in the house at all. I shopped around for months for a decently priced 4K projector that would work well in a non-light-controlled environment and finally settled on the TK800.The projector arrived while I was at work yesterday and I went to setting it up IMMEDIATELY when I got home. Replaced all of the old HDMI cables and fixtures with 2.2 compliant hardware, mounted the projector and got to work setting it up. The first thing I noticed was that I had every light in the house set to full brightness and I could still clearly see the BenQ logo while the projector was firing up. This thing is BRIGHT.After playing with it and calibrating color to the Xbox, I could not be more happy with this purchase. Even in a fully-lit room, this projector is highly watchable. It does, of course, look better at night with all of the lights off as ambient light will have an effect on your picture no matter how many lumens you're sporting. HOWEVER, 3,000 lumens in my completely non-controlled environment is still plenty bright enough to watch TV on. When it comes to gaming and movies, the lights will go off in the living room. The lights in the rest of the house don't really effect picture enough to worry about.4K resolution is absolutely stunning. I tested it with Planet Earth II on Netflix and ended up sitting and watching for an hour because it looked so darn good. Color accuracy is much better than I anticipated for a projector using an RGBW color wheel. When you take into account the fact that I'm projecting onto a grey surface, this is SUPER impressive.I will be repainting my screen this weekend with specialized 4K projector paint (that I also bought on good old Amazon). If the colors are this good on non-certified paint, I can't WAIT to see what happens when I'm projecting onto a 4K certified surface.I haven't tested 3D functionality yet but will be trying that out as soon as the screen is resurfaced.I got this baby on sale for about $1,000. Bottom line is this. If you're looking for a lot of bang for your buck, a great picture, and enough brightness to cut through a lot of ambient light, the TK800 is where it's at. Next time I upgrade (in 5 years or so) I'll be going with another BenQ projector.

I was in the market for a 4K projector within my budget range ($1200 or below) and while prices have certainly been dropping it was still rare to find a well-reviewed projector of this type at the time of purchase (nearly a year ago). But BenQ produced this 50s styled projector in my price zone so I took a chance on it, and it delivers for the most part.I’ll leave the heavy duty technical reviews for others, as there are many excellent reviews available online, but I will say that as a projector with a picture designed to be seen even in brighter lighting conditions that the picture is often too bright, giving movies a more blown-out high contrast look than is usually necessary. To compensate I usually select the more muted ‘cinema’ mode to offset the overt brightness provided by the high lumen output of this model.The picture is excellent and I’ve really no complaints as this has taken over the family cinema, and all but put my otherwise excellent Sony Bravia into early retirement. However, almost from the time I bought this projector it has been very flaky about when it wants to start up.More often than I am comfortable with, pressing the green ‘on’ button on the remote switches the blinking status light on the unit itself to green, but that’s often where it ends. It just blinks green and then never comes on, even after waiting 5-10 minutes. On a good day it’ll start up within a minute of pressing the remote, but especially recently I’ve had to manually unplug it, and then retry, which is super frustrating since I have it mounted on a custom stand for projectors.Just today I even got a weird ‘freeze’ image that I wasn’t sure if it was my blu-ray player or the projector. Turns out it was the projector. For what it’s worth I always shut the unit down as instructed by BenQ (press off twice on the remote to initiate shutdown and cooldown mode).I’m not gonna lie: I really hope projectors of the future are more reliable than this, or maybe I just have to try a different brand. Because now that I’ve got a taste for the big cinema experience at home it’s going to be hard to go back to even a 60” HDTV. But depending on my living situation in upcoming years if the reliability of projectors remains similar to this, it would definitely give me pause.