BenQ has announced their all-new 4LED 4K home projector W4000i, seeking to provide an enhanced and immersive home theatre experience. The W4000i incorporates BenQ’s pioneering HDR-PRO technology, with high dynamic range techniques including Local Contrast Enhancement to reveal fine details in bright or dark scenes. It also delivers consistently balanced brightness well-suited for various environments. Furthermore, the W4000i offers professional-standard color gamut performance. The BenQ W4000i retails for S$4,499.
Recreating cinema at Home
Projectors are being more common at home as people seek to create their very own home theatre along with the new wave of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime. The W4000i delivers a cinematic experience through its true 4K resolution along with its HDR-PRO and CinematicColor Technology. W4000i is also a certified Android TV, with native Netflix and 5000+ other apps.
HDR-PRO: Retaining details from bright to dark scenes
BenQ-proprietary HDR-PRO technology imbue HDR10+ / HDR10 / HLG content with more depth, revealing previously hidden cinematic details in bright and dark scenes. The HDR-PRO technology enhances W4000i’s overall dynamic range with Local Contrast Enhancement and optimal HDR Tone Mapping, enabling more details in shadows and highlights for better stereo perception. The Local Contrast Enhancement is an algorithm that divides each scene into 1000+ zones and optimizes each zone’s gamma independently. It also preserves fine details in bright regions as well as shadowy areas of the screen
CinematicColor: Colors as envisioned by Directors
The W4000i provides true 4K HDR image quality with CinematicColor technology. It conforms to the 100% Rec.709 HDTV colour space, the wider 100% DCI-P3 digital filmmaking colour spectrum, and even the super-wide BT.2020 ideal-color future standard. Harnessing a LED light source, the W4000i produces ideally balanced brightness and color performance in different rooms of the house. In addition, the W4000i comes with CinematicColor Factory Calibration Report to ensure out-of-box colour accuracy.
Google-Certified Android TV with Netflix
The W4000i 4K home cinema projector is equipped with a Google-certified Android TV and a preloaded Netflix app for streaming and movie enjoyment, augmented by comprehensive AV connectivity, wireless capabilities, and integrated immersive audio systems.
The W4000i also features a 4LED light source, 3200 ANSI-lumen high brightness and the flexibility of projecting 1.3X big zoom on a 100” screen from just 2.5m, 2D lens shift (Vertical 0%-60%; Horizontal ±15%) and 2D keystone, which can fit in any rooms.
Where to buy
The BenQ W4000i is available for purchase at S$4,499 on Shopee and Lazada from 25 July 2023 onwards.