BenQ W1070 : DLP Full HD, 3D Ready with lens-shift for 1000$ - Page 14

Thanks for heads up. Managed to cancel my order.

I have ordered these 144Hz Sainsonic here at £24.99. I will report back if they are any good.

It is yes, also a good source for av reviews........ http://www.avforums.com/

Where can i buy this projector in the US? thanks

Yeah, me too, but I need it by Christmas. So who is selling this in the US? It won't let me order it from the NCIX site. Is Runco still repackaging BENQ projectors and selling them for triple? My Runco 710 just gave up the Ghost. It would cost way more to fix than this projector is new.
Edited by dchamp - 12/3/12 at 2:28pm

really? Runco? I thought they were a quality company, I guess you never know these days.

I was going to buy a gt750E a few weeks from now, but now that I saw this maybe I should wait? If it's going to be $1,200 then I will pass still on the fence.

I just saw the person with a 8' ceiling well mine is 7.9' and 9' away from the screen, I think I'm going to have to pass on this one lol.
Edited by SubaruB4 - 12/3/12 at 4:46pm

Turns out my Runco CL-710 is a repackaged BenQ PE 8710 with a 7 segment color wheel as opposed to 6 segment for the BenQ. Runco purportedly redesigns the scaler as well so there is some value add.

Heres a small input lag test from my w1070.

The top number is the benq connected trough a hdmi port, the bottem number a lcd monitor (Samsung p2450) connected trough a dvi port. The monitor should have about 16ms lag.







If I add all the numbers it seems the 1070 has an average lag of 50ms with extremes ranging from 20ms to 80ms.

Looking forward too see more test results, since it's the first time I ever tested input lag there's always the chance I did something wrong..

Same numbers as BQ W7000.
was this Game mode? Did you turn off all processing features?

I just read that someone in Germany could run his ZD201. So it is controversial.

He used them at 1080p50Hz (or 60Hz?) half resolution side by side. 144Hz is required for 1080p 24Hz full resolution.

edit: since I'll use a HTPC for video playback and a computer / ps3 / xbox for video games, I may be fine with the ZD201 after all. I'm curious to see how they compare
Edited by mart242 - 12/4/12 at 5:39am

As far as I can tell it doesnt have a game mode or any sort of processing that would affect lag.

Just received it this morning at my work place but I have to wait all day long before testing it!!!

Your cough is annoying.. you feel fever coming in. you should go home to get some rest.
Edited by mart242 - 12/4/12 at 10:02am

After calibration and a bit more time with the projector, I'd actually say contrast and overall image quality is quite a bit better than my Acer. I tried the "Kraine" calibration posted above, and it looks really good to my eyes. I think the "Gain" values are different in my firmware. I had to doubled the RGB gain values or else the picture was very muted. Bakara looks AMAZING and much richer than I remember on the Acer. Perhaps that's mostly in the resolution difference, there's so much detail on that Bluray.

I tried 3D last night with mixed results. The image in 3D looks pretty good. Colours seem a little more washed out, but still a very good picture. The 3D effect and "pop-out" / depth is great.I don't see why pop-out or depth would be effected by a projector though. I'd read notes from someone else that 3D popout/depth was improved on a higher end projector but that doesn't make sense to me. The source images for your right eye and left eye control pop-out and depth, and those would be the same. Regardless, both looked good on the W1070.

3D at 720p/60hz is flawless. Games look and work great and I'm actually surprised how much better things look at 720p over my last projector. I wonder if the upscaling to 1080p is providing some smoothing that is pleasing to the eye. With 3D movies at 1080p/24hz However, there was a very noticeable "wobble" with moving objects, like the left eye and right eye images are a frame out of sync or something. I've seen this same effect at theaters and it's one reason why I dislike many 3D movies. My main interest in 3D is gaming. I'm not sure if it's inherent in the movie or if it's a synchronization or playback issue.

I had a lot of trouble getting 3D blurays to play on my HTPC. Totalmedia Theatre 3 would not output 3D at all. Totalmedia Theatre 5 attempted to run 3D at 1440x1080x60hz which is not a valid 3D mode. Powerdvd 11 set the 3D mode correctly, but had playback issues where the video would play too fast. Windvd works flawlessly, although it changes the output to 720p in menus for some reason.

The BenQ glasses are very comfortable and flicker free. They don't darken the image as much as my Nvidia "3D Vision" glasses did, and those had a more noticeable flickering.
Edited by Nayr2 - 12/4/12 at 11:17am

Need to test the depth of 3D. Comparisons 3d 7000 and 1070! Optoma HD33.

Hi,
The reason 3d 720p/60hz looks so smooth ect is because it's filled with true 60fps.
When watching a 24p/24hz film it has todo a pulldown, in 3d this is even more noticable and creates eveen more of a juddering effect.
You need a pj with Frame interpolation just like most 3dtv's do or you need " Smooth video project " to create your own realtime FI from a medium to high spec pc.

I just got a plasma, i here they was smooth, thats not true, there is still ghosting images on 24p films, using Svp though cleans up the image and produces a smooth video which is PERFECT for 3d films.

Does'nt work with 3d blurays, only video files like mkv sbs ect.

No, I am not talking about the smoothness of 24fps content, I know what that looks like. I am talking about imperfect synchronization between the the left and right eyes. It could be related to some sort of pulldown happening if the projector is not running at 48hz native for 24hz 3D content, it could be running at 60hz native for 3D content.

I was hoping this could playback 23.976hz 2d bluray with no problems. That is sort of a deal breaker I think.

Wait for someone with a standalone Bluray player to comment. My using a HTPC might be complicating things.

Have you tried smooth video project and then commented?
If not i'd suggest you do, if not only for the sake of knowing that there could be a fix for your issue or there could not, but either way it is only a stone trhough away to try
Sorry but your issue in 3d still resembles needing the fix i commented about hence the reason i'm still pushing to help you the bets i can

Hi, did you try 3D bluray with some HW player? I have had a lot of troubles with SW players and 3D and one is that out of sync issue. That is also common in many 3D files found all over the internet.
I have also ordered w1070 for my first 1080p projector to replace H5360 and have been following many discussions all over the net. There is a lot of speculating if W1070 is actually using 144hz tripleflash when playing 1080p 24fps 3D. I have ordered pair of ZD201 and now it seems that they will not work with 1080p 24fps 3D mode with W1070. 144hz Sounds too good to be true but one german owner said 3D 24fps is perfectly smooth and with BenQ classes and kraine was also pleased with 24fps 3D so maybe? we all know that 24fps 3D at 120hz is far from smooth so there must be something going on here. Maybe it looks smooth because it is out of sync or something...Well going to order pair of those sainsonic 144hz anyway .

I've used SVP before and it's a trade-off of smoother motion vs interpolation artifacts. The artifacts are usually not worth it to me. It also doesn't solve the issue of 3D at 1080p.

Cool, but does it fix the ripple you talk of?
As you say used before does that mean you have'nt tested it yet on the w1070?
I'd be very greatfull if you could as i'm looking at getting this pj in the next week and its good info.

I believe that the day is over...

Wow,

i've just tried it tonight and i'm really impressed by the picture quality, smoothness, fluidity and sharpness and i'm only projecting it on a beige wall because i have not received my screen.

I've tried my xbox 360 with Forza 4, Call Of Duty 3 and Assasins creed and some 1080p mkv movies.

It's my first projector and I don't regret it!!


The noise is really not an issue. The eco mode is well enough bright for my need(dark room). I don't have 3D glasses for now so i can't comment on this.

Question for 3d

I,ve gone to the 3D menu and the only option available are Frame Packing and Top-Bottom...the other two are disabled(Side-By-Side and Frame Sequential).

Anyone have been able to select Side By Side ?

I just answered myself with the manual, it's dependant of the refresh rate and the resolution....Side BY Side in HDMI is only available in 1080/50i and 1080/60i