BenQ W4100i

Home cinema-grade projection meets living room flexibility?

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With its relatively serious price point, 3200 lumens of claimed brightness, LED lighting and coverage of 100 per cent of the Rec 709 and HDR DCI-P3 colour ranges, this BenQ has the on-paper potential to be a proper home-theatre performer.

Yet it also boasts a builtin audio system, Android TV smarts, and advanced auto setup - things we usually expect to find with a relatively casual living room projector.

This is a 4K projector, courtesy of DLP XPR technology, which uses pixel shifting to deliver a 4K effect from a sub-4K count of DLP's digital mirror devices (DMDs).

The W4100i is lit by LEDs rather than lasers or the usual UHP lamps. This should yield between 20,000 and 30,000 hours of projection life, depending on which light mode you have selected.