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Churning out almost as many projectors in a year as Bollywood does movies (OK, maybe not), here is BenQ taking home-cinema seriously

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Whether you're projecting onto a wall or your dreams, BenQ probably has a display to match. But when it comes to the high-end home cinema scene, the brand has often found itself just outside the VIP section. The W5700 held its own for years, but it's the W5800 that really earned its stripes with us. The new alpha in the family is the BenQ W5850 which doesn't just replace the W5800; it fine-tunes almost everything we liked about it.

At first glance, it’s business as usual: central projection lens, flanked by large vertical louvres, and a chassis that walks the line between industrial and handsome.But the W5850 gets an upgraded 16-element glass lens array with aspheric coating, a step up from the already-sharp 14-element setup on the W5800. The benefit? Even less distortion, better light transmission, and image sharpness that stays tighter across more of the screen. Excited much?

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