BenQ HT2060 1080p HDR LED Home Theater Projector | DCI-P3 & Rec.709 Wide Color Gamut | 8.3ms 120hz | Vertical Lens Shift | 2D Keystone | 1.3x Zoom | S/PDIF | HDMI 2.0 | Built-in 5Wx2 Speakers | 3D

I was looking forward to a larger picture than most HDTVs for a new family room in the basement but had no idea how fantastic this light-weight, quiet-running, crystal clear powerhouse would be. I bought an In-Focus 15 years ago for my training travels for $2500. It served me well but needed a dark room and was loud when running. We used it occasionally for movie nights at home but it had a traditional format and needed better speakers hooked up to it. This unit at only $799 gives us a huge picture and vibrant colors even with a few room lights on. The sound is so good that I've been debating whether to even go out and get any fancy sound system. The great thing too is that because of having two HDMI inputs we can have our cable television hooked up to one HDMI port and Apple TV hooked up to the other HDMI port for all the download streaming we need. The manual suggests putting it in smart eco-mode to save the life of the bulb at up to 70%. When we made this change we did not notice any real difference in the picture and expect now to get up to 6000 hours from the bulb. Online we see that the bulbs right now can be purchased for around $250 but those will most likely come down. My bulbs for my old in-focus used to cost me $400. We had some in our group debating about getting a really large HDTV like 70 or 80 inches but with those costing over $2000 now everyone was silenced the first time we turned this HT2050 on and had probably a 150 inch vivid bright picture on the white wall without a real screen. When I bought a 55 inch HDTV for our living room I was not real pleased with the color and had to calibrate it from the Internet with different people suggestions which I finally did get. But when turning this BENQ on I feel no need to calibrate anything. it is perfect right out of the box. There are four picture selection such as vivid normal cinema sports and I am pleased with anyone of them. I also had researched online about home theater projectors for two days before deciding on this particular model. So save yourself some time and don't be disappointed with this great product that is priced right and delivers more than expected. Their ceiling mount is also worth purchasing since it's made specifically for their units and also looks a lot cleaner and less clunkier than a lot of the standard ceiling mounts.

I bought this projector for my new basement theater. I did a lot of shopping around. Originally I had my eye on an Epson. The throw ratio wasn't working out for where I needed to hang the projector. Then I found this one. And it was less than half the price. So, for the first couple months I was watching it on a grey flat painted wall. My screen hadn't arrived yet. I have it projecting at 130" diagonal from about 11'. I am pretty much maxed on the zoom out. I was concerned that this would compromise picture quality but it doesn't at all. In fact, the picture looked so good and so bright even on the dark grey drywall, I almost cancelled my plans for getting a screen. Got the screen anyway. Slight improvement on brightness. As my first projector, I really can't compare it to anything else, but man, the picture is crystal clear. HD looks amazing on it. The functions are simple, but that's all I need. It has this grid which you can turn on that projects the limits of the image onto the wall so you can align everything and make sure it's square. This was very useful. I don't think it has any keystone adjustment. If it does I didn't see it in the menu. Wouldn't need it anyway. Just make sure you center the lens where you want to project the screen. I don't really mess with any of the settings. Hooked up an HDMI cable I ran to the location before I hung the drywall. Plugged it in, centered it, and never really had to mess with anything after that. Wish it was black so it blended in with the dark ceiling but not that big of a deal. I don't ever notice the fan noise. It's hanging from an 8' ceiling just above my sofa. I hung it using one of the $50 mounts I found here on Amazon. Worked great. Low profile. I really can't think of anything negative to say about it right now. I use it almost daily. Everything from 8-bit Nintendo to PS4 games. Everything looks good. Didn't notice any latency in the game controls.

An incredible picture with vibrant colors while extremely quiet. This is a great projector.

Let me start by saying I am a huge audio/video enthusiast. However, I am no means in the profession and this is my first FullHD projector purchase, so my statements have no baseline for comparison. I have a 65" UHD/HDR/DV TV so I hadn't set my hopes extremely high, and as of right now, UHD projectors aren't competitive enough vs. TVs in the respective price ranges, hence 1080p projector. with all that said... I spent several weeks researching different products as I waited to save up a bit and use some Christmas gift cards. It was a difficult decision at first, but after seeing the results I'm blown away with how clear this actually is! My setup: - "Homegear" 110" projector screen, motorized, white finish (from Amazon), with a 1.3 gain iirc. It's nothing special and honestly there's probably very little difference between Elite Screens and other brands. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22TM7Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 - BenQ HT2050A front-ceiling mounted about 11' from the screen if I had to guess. I did NOT want to rely on zoom or lens shift to mount it any closer and possible compromise picture quality. Unfortunately I did not take a pic of the mounted projector itself. - 25' white HDMI that I shamelessly used coax staples to mount to the ceiling as I don't have the ability to go in the ceiling or walls themselves. -had to get a 15' power cord to make the run ok, and again no ability to run a power outlet close by, etc. -The room has black out curtains and in the back of the room where you enter, it, too, has blackened panels to cut as much light out as possible. I used a Spears & Munsil calibration Blu Ray in the complete dark, Bulb set to "SmartEco" and the only setting I had to change from defaults was to lower contrast to '40' from '50' as some of the colors clipping/bled over. I do not like to use sharpness or any fake enhancers so those are set to 0, but I did turn on Fast Mode assuming that's a mode for gaming or lower response time, and it's maybe barely noticeably better. Because of the lack of need for calibration (probably due to ISF) I'm even happier with the accuracy and abilities https://www.amazon.com/Spears-Munsil-Benchmark-Calibration-Disc/dp/B00CKWI13O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546439424&sr=8-1&keywords=spears+and+munsil+hd+benchmark+2nd+edition I've only had this a few days, but I have now logged several hours worth of use with FullHD blu rays, streamed some Netflix (to compare framerates and quality), and played some games on Xbox One. To my knowledge I did not see any sort of typical rainbow effect that users talk about with other projectors, maybe due to the RGBRGB color wheel? Also, I did not have issues like older projectors where the center seems brighter and the edges are darker. My much older and lower resolution projector (1024x768) and a lot of rear-projection TVs had this issue. Overall, it seemed extremely well-balanced for brightness, contrast, and sharpness. I got right up to the screen and can see individual pixels in the corners, so I know it's not only pretty in the middle/main focus for content. I do have it set to -1 for both vertical and horizontal keystone, so as true of an image I could achieve for where I had this mounted. Hopefully all 3 pics and 1 video upload just fine. Maybe because the TV is backlit vs. the screen being projected on, and how the video is captured, the screen looks washed out in the video but I assure you it doesn't do proper justice to the quality.

I bought this hoping it'd be a big upgrade for a room with a lot of natural light, where previously we could only watch movies at night. It's definitely an upgrade in a lot of ways (better picture, decent internal speakers), but it's still not as bright as I was hoping, and I have to strain my eyes to see the picture in daylight. Perhaps I'm seeing the limits of what a projector can do. I'll still keep it as it took several hours to mount and setup properly.

I'll avoid going into some of the technical details covered by other reviewers and just tell you my story. I was looking for a projector that could be used for my daughter’s birthday party, and as one of the final pieces in my garage makeover, I decided to dive into the mind-numbing research of projectors. As someone that has never owned a projector, I really didn't need the top of the line AV line but did want 1080P with low lag and a self-powered USB outlet so I could run a streaming stick anywhere I could find power, outside our inside. It turns out the $600.00 - $1000.00 segment of projectors is quite busy with competing offers from BenQ, Optoma, Emerson etc. pitching different perks like DLP, 3D Ready, Native 3D, MHL, powered USB, Glass Lense, Aspect ratios, Brightness etc. All of these seem to be spread out over many many models, some of which classify themselves as "Home Theatre", and others that are "Office. There is also throw distance which covers short throw, long throw, and not listed which seems to be in the middle. It was a daunting new world. For me I broke it down to what I wanted. Normal throw, higher brightness, 1080P, with awesome reviews. After many, many videos on youtube and spending way too much time on AV forums I narrowed down the playing field to DLP because LCD seems to have much less vibrancy in the picture side by side with all the screenshots I had seen. This left a few players and their versions, which can be confusing because Amazon and the vendors sell older and newer versions of the same product side by side. I settled on either Ben Q, 1070, 2050, 3050 or Optoma HD141X, HD142X, HD27. The forums tried to push me higher up the chain but for my needs these were the right options. 3D, DLP, 1080P, powered USB, great picture, good battery life. Check. The BenQ versions seemed to edge out the Optoma versions at nearly every review. While some of the Optomas where less expensive in the hundred to two hundred range and had some awesome features like Native 3D, high resolutions, better specs it seemed that out of the box the BenQ has the edge with amazing quality. In the end, the price different was only negligible between the older W1070 to the HT2050 and the 3050 differences of the two didn’t wow anyone enough to recommend so I went with the 2050. Now, how did it work? Out of the box on an Elite Screens 120” It looks amazing. Even considering I am using a Roku streaming stick and the default was 720P, I was impressed, and then overjoyed when I say MLB live with the 1080P turned on. I will leave the spec-head comments to other reviewers and just say that the picture is bright and clear, responds well and is very impressive to everyone that has seen it running in my blacked out garage. No rainbows for me! Oh, you may be wondering about how light effects the picture. When sunlight hits the screen it dulls it considerably, but when I turn on the garage light I can still see a very good picture. I will say that for the best possible picture try to limit any ambient​ light. Also, this thing gets hot so a portable AC or fan may be needed in small places with little ventilation. If your story is like mine know that I spent quite a bit of time reviewing and weighing the benefits of many similar projectors and ended up with this one as my choice, maybe you will do the same.

Long time Benq Projector owner. Never thought they could improve on the HT2050a for 1080p projectors and held off making the switch to the HT2060 fearing it's LED light source wouldn't measure up to the HT2050a's brightness and sharpness. What a pleasant surprise! The image is even brighter than my HT2050a and as sharp if not sharper, and the Colors are even slightly better. Right out of the box the Living Room Setting looked extremely good, maybe just a bit cool but I think I'm going to leave it as is for a while. It fills my 200" screen in my light controlled room with plenty of brightness and even when I turn on lights in the room it's still not washed out, same as I experienced with my HT2050a. Just hoping the LED Light Engine keeps it's brightness for close to the 20000 hours it rated for as there is no replacing the lamp to renew the brightness and I was quite expert at replacing my own lamps for the past 14 years and saving costs by only using bare lamps with the original lamp housing. The only very slight issue noticed so far are Signal Lock issues but mainly only when enabling HDR and interacting between my Home Theater PC and it's Media Player. All considering I'm still pleased enough that I'm very likely going to pick up another HT2060 very shortly as I've been quite impressed. Just wished they were a bit cheaper or would go on sale.

11 May 2017 Projector is FANTASTIC. Have it all dialed in now, takes up the screen perfectly, took a bit to color calibrate it, but it's beautiful now. Also, it's bright enough (for me) on the eco power settings to allow the windows to be open, blinds up, wife does workout videos with the room lit by natural light, and it's A-OK. I won't watch it like that because of color washout, but, she's happy and that's ALL that matters ;) 10 Mar 2017 Upgrade from an Infocus 7205. It's nice the other one lasted as well as it did, but it was getting on time to replace it. When the hdmi inbound became too finicky is when I gave up on trying to keep it working. So, now we have a Benq. What a difference 10 years makes in projector tech! 1920x1080 really is nice to watch Amazon Prime on! Also, I'm feeding it component out of my DVP-9000ES, and my old DVDs really look very good again! I'm going to have to get a new amp to go along with this for the HDMI switching... blue-ray and primestick, etc. Very good purchase. It's quieter, brighter, better color rendering, etc - all compared to a 10year old Infocus. I'm glad I can say that - many times the new equipment is inferior to the older stuff; not in this case! This is my first time use, I'll try and do periodic updates as I go.