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The TK800 does have a small speaker for playing basic sounds — probably suitable for an office presentation — but we highly recommend you use outboard speakers whenever possible. One factor: the BenQ offers the DLP Brilliant Color adjustment, which dials back the amount of white brightness in the image if you care to adjust that balance between color and white brightness, adding more color brightness back at the expense of some white brightness. Even in bright conditions it can produce a display of around 100 inches in a modest-sized room, though this can stretch to a whopping BOO inches larger rooms.
The TK800 is certainly bright, with BenQ claiming the projector can deliver a maximum of 3000 lumens. BenQ market the TK800 projector as a home entertainment and sports model and not a home cinema machine. With this fairly compact, sleek-looking unit in place and fired up, we were able to witness every drop of sweat dripped and every bit of spit gobbed in stunning ultra-HD detail. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. We must also remind ourselves of the goals of the manufacturer for this product and while it is interesting to see how it copes with trying to be accurate, it is simply not built, or intended, to be so.Turning it off almost completely removes blue from the grayscale and only leaves you a single preset to adjust. There’s also a PC/VGA input, an analogue audio in and out, a 12V trigger, an RS232 serial connector, and two USB ports.
It has a backlight that can be switched on with a dedicated button at the top of the projector, or by pressing any key. The BENQ TK800 generic lamp with housing includes generic plastic housing and a generic bulb from an authorised manufacturer of generic lamps. It’s worth noting that there is no vertical or horizontal lens shifting, image adjustment is limited to three rubber feet (one on the front and two on the rear) of the projector for anyone not mounting the projector.Provided you stick with the projector’s adaptive Smart Eco lamp mode, those surprisingly effective black levels can be joined by some strikingly punchy bright highlights. Second, the projected image of the TK800 itself is bright enough and high contrast enough that the dark frame is difficult to notice in most circumstances.
Still, both features allow the image to stand up to plenty of ambient light, which is perfect for your next game-day gathering. The onboard audio system on most projectors is a joke, but BenQ has devoted some attention to it in the TK800M. This beats the costs of trying to manufacture a native 4K chip, which would cost five or more times the cost of this projector. On top are basic controls for source selection and menu navigation, along with manual zoom and focus adjusters over the lens.It is supposed to create an image ‘good enough’ to enjoy big screen sporting events, or gaming with your friends and is not a critical home cinema viewing device for movie viewing in a bat cave dedicated theatre. The BenQ is operating at 8bit and the picture processing on-board simply cannot deal with high bitrate content and colours like this. The original BENQ TK800 lamp is a bare bulb from one of the OEM manufacturers (Osram P-VIP, Philips UHP, Ushio, Matsushita, Iwasaki HSCR) and is designed to replace the lamp in your existing lamp housing. However it uses a larger imaging chip for a slightly better 4K experience, but also costs more, which gives you an idea of the competitiveness of the TK800. We have a good set of calibration controls present with the TK800 and should be able to correct the greyscale and colour gamut for HD viewing to D65 and Rec.
Of course, true home-theater projectors aren't as bright, so you need to decide what's more important to you. It gives a better overall natural looking image with the majority of HD material people will still be watching, especially sports content with large areas of green on screen. Its image clarity is easily on-par with native UHD models and though it doesn’t have the black levels of those much-more-expensive displays, HDR material looks quite good with excellent depth and dimension. Whether that market needs faux 4K as opposed to ‘just’ a 1080p model is a question for the intended end user to think about and decide on.
Gather your friends and family for an epic gamewatching party in the comfort of your home with 4K HDR images and resounding audio enhancement that brings you right to the arena. The TK800 is the latest budget 4K Ultra HD single-chip DLP projector which is being marketed as a home entertainment and sports model. As such you can use the TK800 in a room with white walls or big windows, and still enjoy a huge projected image. Chris enjoys bringing his observations and discoveries about every kind of home theater product to as many curious and well-informed readers as possible.
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