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post #2371 of 5155
2/14/13 at 8:04pm
so we just found out about these 3dtv corp 3d glasses are compatible with the w1070???

Had a little hiccup just turning on the w1070 just now....pressed power on the remote....the power button was blinking the entire time...the lamp did not turn on...after a while I tried pressing the power again I was able to get it to turn on and I saw that message" press power button to turn off projecto"r....but it was upside down......I turned it off with the controller and tried to turn it on....i couldn't...so i unplugged the projector and now it's back to good.
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post #2372 of 5155
2/14/13 at 8:08pm
I got benq w1070 on monday, tried projecting a movie on the wall painted in yellow without any projector screen and it still looks,great. I have ordered a,screen and i am hoping it will be a great movie watching experience.

What type of 3d glasses do i need for watching 3d content on this projector? I do not want to spend too much on glasses so an economical option will work best for me. Please share your ideas.

It would be the Sainsonics, at around $26-30 each, it depends how many you need for kids etc, ( see the above posting )
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post #2373 of 5155
2/14/13 at 10:04pm
Ceiling mount this but having trapezoid. My ceiling is quite short, under 7ft.

I need a ceiling mount that's really short, preferably flush to the ceiling.

Any suggestions?
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post #2374 of 5155
2/14/13 at 10:04pm
Hello all, I just picked this projector up for under $1000 before taxes. I love this projector! Great picture!

I do have one question though - does anyone have any really well-calibrated settings? I understand there are different screens, lighting and room conditions, but Id love somewhere to start. I have a decent picture out of this unit already, but I know it can go further.

Thanks in advance!
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post #2375 of 5155
2/14/13 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by sanm View Post

I got benq w1070 on monday, tried projecting a movie on the wall painted in yellow without any projector screen and it still looks,great. I have ordered a,screen and i am hoping it will be a great movie watching experience.

What type of 3d glasses do i need for watching 3d content on this projector? I do not want to spend too much on glasses so an economical option will work best for me. Please share your ideas.

read the last 10 or so post and you will get a good answer or check out this thread wink.gif

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1448720/benq-w1070-144hz-compatible-dlp-link-3d-glasses
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post #2376 of 5155
2/14/13 at 10:24pm
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Hello all, I just picked this projector up for under $1000 before taxes. I love this projector! Great picture!

I do have one question though - does anyone have any really well-calibrated settings? I understand there are different screens, lighting and room conditions, but Id love somewhere to start. I have a decent picture out of this unit already, but I know it can go further.

Thanks in advance!

You can download a calibration disc from AVSForums, or you can buy Disney WOW BluRay which does a great job, or you can get a S&M Calibration Disc, either way you will want to calibrate yourself so you get what will look good for you in your own settings, as for a suggested setting well I say anything anyone gives you wont matter since its to their setup, just use the cinema setting thats in their by default until you get a calibration disc.
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post #2377 of 5155
2/14/13 at 11:42pm
Has anyone watched vudu 3d on this projector?.I get a double image and I can't change the settings on the remote as its not highlighted .. Watched a 3d dvd movie on the player it looked amazing
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post #2378 of 5155
2/15/13 at 4:31am
It seems that the Monoprice DLP glasses also work with the 1070


http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10909&cs_id=1090903&p_id=9459&seq=1&format=2
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post #2379 of 5155
2/15/13 at 4:34am
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It seems that the Monoprice DLP glasses also work with the 1070


http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10909&cs_id=1090903&p_id=9459&seq=1&format=2


Those appear to be the 3d corp glasses rebranded
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post #2380 of 5155
2/15/13 at 5:32am
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Those appear to be the 3d corp glasses rebranded

I though the same thing. One can often find Monoprice 10 or even 20% off coupons so they may be a good deal for some.
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post #2381 of 5155
2/15/13 at 5:52am
Just watched an entire movie last night on the W1070 (Casino Royale). The motion and colors were so smooth and accurate. It's as film-like as I've ever seen on a projector (I only had Optoma and Epson prior).

I had seen no evidence of RBE whatsoever. Unless you're one of those souls that are extremely sensitive to RBE, you won't have a problem with this projector.

Still, the lower left corner misalignment is killing me. My top line of the screen is aligned with the image. Both the left and right are aligned (with slight trapezoid, which could be fix with a lower profile ceiling mount), but the bottom left corner is completely out of wack. I got about an 1.5" gap where the image is not filling the screen. Could this be a defect with the projector?
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post #2382 of 5155
2/15/13 at 6:04am
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Ceiling mount this but having trapezoid. My ceiling is quite short, under 7ft.

I need a ceiling mount that's really short, preferably flush to the ceiling.

Any suggestions?



Any suggestions for low profile ceiling mount? I currently use the Mustang/Atdec mount.

Thanks
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post #2383 of 5155
2/15/13 at 10:53am
To bad that the Benq does not come with a lens cover to protect the lens from objects like dust & Grandkids..
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post #2384 of 5155
2/15/13 at 10:53am
I watched 007 last night too, the Shanghai night time scenes were beautiful and had pop and punchy contrast. The action was so smooth and beats out lcd for this kind of stuff, very impressive
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post #2385 of 5155
2/15/13 at 11:02am
Anyone else having problem ceiling mount this projector and have the image perfectly squared to your screen?

Anyone experience slanted or trapezoid image?
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post #2386 of 5155
2/15/13 at 11:03am
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To bad that the Benq does not come with a lens cover to protect the lens from objects like dust & Grandkids..


It does have a lens cover.
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post #2387 of 5155
2/15/13 at 11:36am
In the process of sending mine back to BenQ to (hopefully) correct the weird fan noise I'm getting. (sounds like a film projector)

I wish I could hear another unit to see if it's a noise that's normal for the unit, but it isn't anything I've heard from the other projectors I've owned and/or worked with. frown.gif
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post #2388 of 5155
2/15/13 at 12:27pm
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For those that are ceiling mounting your projectors in a living room and not a dedicated theater room or basement, how are you handling the power cord and HDMI situation?

If you are building out a space for a theater specifically, you could use drop ceilings or outlets in the ceiling, but those are both tough in a living room.

Any elegant solutions for covering these things on living room ceiling?




I ordered some cable raceways on eBay, there is a lot of types and colors available, just search for "cable raceway" on google. Here a picture of the results, not perfect but still better than hanging cables.




*edit ; If you go the raceway route, never use the same raceway for both power and hdmi unless you have premium shielded hdmi cables, wich are very expansive. Both cable enclosed in the same raceway will introduce noise patern or weak signal in the picture.
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post #2389 of 5155
2/15/13 at 12:42pm
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I watched 007 last night too, the Shanghai night time scenes were beautiful and had pop and punchy contrast. The action was so smooth and beats out lcd for this kind of stuff, very impressive

It was fun to watch Skyfall on both a JVC RS 45 and the W1070. The blacks reach another level with the RS45 but to my surprise the results on the W1070 are quite good. You will not get the ultra blacks from this projector but most people would be very satisfied.
The picture is bright and sharp with very good focus. The shadows and highlights are also good. It is much better than I expected from a sub $1000 projector. I got it mainly for 3D because the JVC shows a lot of ghosting and I find myself using it for regular tv viewing and sports. I use the JVC mostly for 2D movies because of the high lamp cost.
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post #2390 of 5155
2/15/13 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by smokarz View Post

Anyone else having problem ceiling mount this projector and have the image perfectly squared to your screen?

Anyone experience slanted or trapezoid image?
I have the same problem...and I had it on my viewsonic pro8200. Although it's a lot better on the benq...I'm beginning to think it's my screen or the wall...not being completely flat. I'm not sure...
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post #2391 of 5155
2/15/13 at 12:52pm
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To bad that the Benq does not come with a lens cover to protect the lens from objects like dust & Grandkids..

What are you talking about? Of course it does.
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post #2392 of 5155
2/15/13 at 1:00pm
Last week I wrote about my w1070 bad picture quality and apparently my seller is reading this forum and contacted me. I just received a replacement unit this morning and this one is a firmware 1.4 unit and from the first test that I just made, it is obvious that the first one had a bad circuit or something. Now (even with dayligth in the room) the picture quality and colors are on par with my old HC4000 and regular resolution feed from my shaw direct is quite watchable. Can't wait to watch a movie or two tonigth.

I also receive my fixed frame 1.0 gain screen yesterday and will mount it tonigth, it's a no name 100 inch screen that I paid 350$ on ebay, Imwould have love a elunevision gray screen but the shipping charge were higher than the screen itself, so for the next couple weeks I will settle for that cheaper screen. The screen I use now is painted on the wall and does have a little hot spotting as I used some ceiling primer that I already had on hand, but it was not that far from the screen-goo screnn that I had last year with my hc4000. Sadly I painted over the screen-goo this summer when I replaced the HC4000 with a 70" sharp TV that I hated so much that I sold it for 2500$ less than I paid 5 months before....


here is some pics of my mount, a universal mount that sells for below 20$ on ebay (seller lcd-mount) and it work very well with that projector, it include a 4" drop and 8 inch drop adapter in the same box, they can be cut and drill in less than 2 minutes if you need less drop, as low as 2" I would say.





The old setup that I hated (sharp 70" 3d lcd)



The new setup, back to projector ( 100 inch painted screen and the new fixed frame screen waiting to be installed)

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post #2393 of 5155
2/15/13 at 1:09pm
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I have the same problem...and I had it on my viewsonic pro8200. Although it's a lot better on the benq...I'm beginning to think it's my screen or the wall...not being completely flat. I'm not sure...


Can you take a pic so I can see how bad it is?

I think my is pretty bad, I'll try to post some pics tonight.
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post #2394 of 5155
2/15/13 at 1:15pm
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Originally Posted by YouFermont View Post

Last week I wrote about my w1070 bad picture quality and apparently my seller is reading this forum and contacted me. I just received a replacement unit this morning and this one is a firmware 1.4 unit and from the first test that I just made, it is obvious that the first one had a bad circuit or something. Now (even with dayligth in the room) the picture quality and colors are on par with my old HC4000 and regular resolution feed from my shaw direct is quite watchable. Can't wait to watch a movie or two tonigth.

I also receive my fixed frame 1.0 gain screen yesterday and will mount it tonigth, it's a no name 100 inch screen that I paid 350$ on ebay, Imwould have love a elunevision gray screen but the shipping charge were higher than the screen itself, so for the next couple weeks I will settle for that cheaper screen. The screen I use now is painted on the wall and does have a little hot spotting as I used some ceiling primer that I already had on hand, but it was not that far from the screen-goo screnn that I had last year with my hc4000. Sadly I painted over the screen-goo this summer when I replaced the HC4000 with a 70" sharp TV that I hated so much that I sold it for 2500$ less than I paid 5 months before....


here is some pics of my mount, a universal mount that sells for below 20$ on ebay (seller lcd-mount) and it work very well with that projector, it include a 4" drop and 8 inch drop adapter in the same box, they can be cut and drill in less than 2 minutes if you need less drop, as low as 2" I would say.





The old setup that I hated (sharp 70" 3d lcd)



The new setup, back to projector ( 100 inch painted screen and the new fixed frame screen waiting to be installed)





Looks great, and I got a question.


It looks like the middle of projector's lense is at least about 6-8" from the ceiling.

While the top of your screen looks like it's about 4-6" from ceiling.

Don't you need at least a 6-7" offest, assuming you have a 100" screen?
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post #2395 of 5155
2/15/13 at 1:38pm
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Originally Posted by rwestley View Post

It was fun to watch Skyfall on both a JVC RS 45 and the W1070. The blacks reach another level with the RS45 but to my surprise the results on the W1070 are quite good. You will not get the ultra blacks from this projector but most people would be very satisfied.
The picture is bright and sharp with very good focus. The shadows and highlights are also good. It is much better than I expected from a sub $1000 projector. I got it mainly for 3D because the JVC shows a lot of ghosting and I find myself using it for regular tv viewing and sports. I use the JVC mostly for 2D movies because of the high lamp cost.

I would have watched it too on my jvc x30 but its going in for repair. I am in the same boat as you bud, I bought this for 3D and it does not disappoint
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post #2396 of 5155
2/15/13 at 1:47pm
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Originally Posted by smokarz View Post

Looks great, and I got a question.


It looks like the middle of projector's lense is at least about 6-8" from the ceiling.

While the top of your screen looks like it's about 4-6" from ceiling.

Don't you need at least a 6-7" offest, assuming you have a 100" screen?


Yes, the painted screen is about 4 inch too high and i need keystone correction this way, I will mount the fixed screen lower to remove the keystone, I painted the screen using wrong calculation from the canadian benq website. For a 100 inch screen at 10' throw distance, the projector has to be 3 inch higher than the screen for zero keystone and shift.
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post #2397 of 5155
2/15/13 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by smokarz View Post

Can you take a pic so I can see how bad it is?

I think my is pretty bad, I'll try to post some pics tonight.
Sure can! One thing I read that can help with the trapazoids is to get your PJ as level as you can and then use lens shift. That is one of the things I like about my peerless mount...it allowed a lot room for adjustment. It has up\down and left\right tilt adjustments. A little expensive but well forth it to me: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TXNS6G/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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post #2398 of 5155
2/15/13 at 2:35pm
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I ordered some cable raceways on eBay, there is a lot of types and colors available, just search for "cable raceway" on google.

*edit ; If you go the raceway route, never use the same raceway for both power and hdmi unless you have premium shielded hdmi cables, wich are very expansive. Both cable enclosed in the same raceway will introduce noise patern or weak signal in the picture.

I would maintain it's not necessary to separate the cables in different raceways. After all, the minimum bandwidth of HDMI v1.0 is 165 MHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI). It's trivial to filter out 60 Hz with no impact on the digital signal. Not to mention, we have AC power line ethernet transceivers (which I use in my own home), in which the digital signal coexists on the same conductor as the 60 Hz line. Even one of these sets that is only good for 1 Mb/s has a transmission frequency of at least 1 MHz. It's much easier to filter 60 Hz line interference from an HDMI signal than from a power line ethernet signal. Also, the HDMI transmission scheme is differential, so it is not particularly susceptible to electrostatic pickup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition-minimized_differential_signaling). Regarding inductive pickup, such as would occur from a nearby AC line, from what I can glean from looking at the construction diagrams of numerous HDMI cables, the industry standard (it may be required -- I couldn't find that info, quickly, anyway) appears to be that each differential signal wire pair is twisted and individually electrostatically shielded. The twisted pair construction would greatly suppress AC line inductive pickup. So, I'm skeptical of the advice that it's necessary to separate the HDMI cable from the AC line run. In my own home theater room (my living room), I have made no attempt to separate my HDMI cable and AC line cord. They both run close to each other on the floor, along the wall, for more than 25 feet, the last 6 feet within the same cable raceway. I have no problems with video transmission. Just sayin'.
Edited by prfssr - 2/15/13 at 2:41pm
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post #2399 of 5155
2/15/13 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by smokarz View Post

Anyone else having problem ceiling mount this projector and have the image perfectly squared to your screen?

Anyone experience slanted or trapezoid image?

I had this and guessed that my problem was that the projector was not 100% perpendicular to the screen. I rotated the projector so that BOTH left and right sides showed identical trapezoid tendencies, then rotated the projector along the horizontal (lens up and down) until everything was square.
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post #2400 of 5155
2/15/13 at 2:48pm
Everyone, here's a tip for making those final adjustments to the image; instead of tweaking with the mount, try tightening or loosening the screws that attach the mount to the projector.

I've been doing this for years as necessary and it gives you extremely fine adjustment capability. I'm talking no more than a turn or so - any more than that and you are too far off with the mount adjustment settings.
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