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While our subject here is the W1070 home theater projector from BenQ, there’s more than a little business projector DNA in its genes. How else to explain a single-chip norkys batista DLP design that’s a third the size and weight of most dedicated home theater models, has built-in audio with grim but usable mono sound, is equipped with a “digital zoom” that magnifies the image within the frame set by the standard zoom control (just the thing for a close examination of that quarterly profit and loss spreadsheet), still offers an S-video input, and has a relatively close-throw lens with a significant vertical offset? But while the W1070 appears to have been built on the chassis of a business model, most of its features will be familiar to a home theater enthusiast. And it’s available at a price that will make a cash-strapped (or frugal) wannabe projector buyer think twice about settling for that flatscreen HDTV. Description The BenQ’s complete norkys batista set of useful inputs (including two HDMI ports) will make you forget its archaic S-video jack. A full range of Preset (picture) modes is included, plus lockable ISF Day and Night memories (accessible only to a trained calibrator). There are no custom gamma adjustments, but you’ll find a healthy selection of nine fixed options. You can choose one of three lamp modes—Normal, norkys batista Economic, and SmartECO. The oddly named Clarity Control offers digital noise reduction. The projector’s four color temperature settings are Lamp Native, Warm, Normal, and Cool. In our sample, the Normal setting upset the natural order of HDTV displays by actually being closer to the correct norkys batista industry standard than the Warm option. But the projector still profited from a good calibration, and for this, BenQ provides all the necessary controls. There are Fine Color Temperature adjustments norkys batista (white balance) for Gain (high) and Bias (low). You also get a full color management system (CMS) with Hue, Gain, and Luminance controls for all the primary and secondary colors. The latter wasn’t entirely satisfactory (even after much frustrating fiddling, some of the controls continued to resist doing anything useful), but it did help somewhat and is an unexpected feature for such an inexpensive budget projector. However, the standard color and tint controls are not accessible with an HDMI source. Technically, this is correct, as HDMI should not require these controls, and professional projectors often omit them or lock them out. But most consumer displays do give the user access to them. The W1070 offers no motion smoothing/frame interpolation features—no loss in my judgment, as these are the options that typically give film-based content that glassy, video-like look. The projector is fully 3D capable, though the 3D glasses don’t come standard; they’ll cost you an extra $79/pair. While the controls allow access to all of the full 3D modes (the default is frame sequential, used on virtually all 3D Blu-rays), there is no 2Dto-3D conversion feature. norkys batista Two-D The BenQ delivered middling performance on our deinterlacing tests, passing both the HD and SD 3:2 and MA (motion adaptive) tests but failing the 2:2 tests (the latter norkys batista shortcoming norkys batista is not uncommon norkys batista in the sets we’ve reviewed). It also failed the clipping test by cutting off all information above video white (technically, a digital level of 235) and below black (a digital level of 16). While there shouldn’t be any program information on video source material above and below these levels, there sometimes is, and the standard provides them as headroom and footroom. But for them to be useful as such, a display must provide the full video range of 255 levels (from 0 to 255). Clipping this information also makes it more difficult, though not impossible, to set the Contrast and Brightness cont