LED Lights the Way
RATING
PERFORMANCE
FEATURES
ERGONOMICS
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BACK IN 2017 I had an opportunity to review BenQ’s HT9050 DLP projector, a flagship 4K model featuring a spectacular all-glass lens, an LED light engine, and the latest Texas Instruments DLP imaging device. To sum that review up briefly, I had a lot of issues with the HT9050, which lacked both HDR support and convenience features commonly seen on other models at or near its $8,999 price. Now BenQ has brought out the HT9060, another $8,999 model sitting at the top of its “CinePro” projector line. The HT9060’s feature set is very similar to that found on the HT9050, but this time out HDR support is included using BenQ’s “HDR-Pro” technology.
THE GOODS
BenQ’s projector has a well-constructed chassis that’s on the larger side for a model at this price point. The HT9060 features the same 14-element all-glass lens that I appreciated in the HT9050. The performance you get from this type of lens is rare even for projectors at twice the HT9060’s price. Couple that with the single-chip “XPR” DLP architecture (native resolution of 2,716 x 1,528 pixels shifted optically to deliver 8.3 million pixels that are individually addressed but slightly overlapped) and the result is a clean, crisp image with no convergence issues. Even with
