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We Three Projectors: Sony VPL-50WES, Epson 5020e, JVC-DLA-X35
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 06, 2013

Winter is my favorite season, when all the past year’s new flat-panel TVs have been reviewed and I can switch my attention to projectors. This season was particularly bountiful, as I was able to score three of the best projectors on the market for review. Sony’s VPL-HW50ES, plus an Epson and a JVC, all arrived on my doorstep within a few days of one another. Not too shabby, that. Time for a roundup.

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Review: BenQ W1070 3D DLP Projector
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Apr 17, 2013

Let’s go over some of the numbers here: 1080p, 3D, $1,000. Pretty solid specs and pricing for flat-panel TV, except ... this is no flat-panel. BenQ’s W1070 is, as you have probably deduced, a projector. I’ve reviewed a few projectors in this price range  as exclusives for soundandvision.com and all came up rather lacking.

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Review: Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 750HD
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Apr 29, 2013
Let’s cut right to it: this projector is staggeringly, amazingly, blindingly bright. It’s brighter than any projector I can remember measuring. It’s brighter than any plasma. It’s brighter than most LCD TVs I’ve reviewed. Uncalibrated, on a 102-inch, 1.0-gain screen, I got 87 footlamberts. That means, with a slightly smaller screen, or a screen with even a little gain, you could have an over 100-footlambert image from a projector.

Oh, and it’s $800...

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Innoio Smart Beam Pico Projector
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jul 07, 2013

Even by the standards of pico projectors, this thing is tiny: an actual projector of images barely larger than a crabapple.

Battery powered and with an HDMI input, it's a mighty mini...

maybe.

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Optoma UHD35STx Short-Throw UHD Gaming Projector Review
Michael Hamilton  |  Nov 15, 2023
Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
PRICE $1,749

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Bright image with proper screen pairing
Low gaming lag
Portability
Quiet Operation

Minus
Placement woes with short-throw lens
Throw-away audio
Manual Focus
HDMI 2.0 only
Ineffective CMS

THE VERDICT
It may be difficult to wrestle it away from the kids when they are gaming, however, for serious movie watching, that may not bother you. Big and bright for gaming, there are better options from Optoma for cinema-centric viewers.

Optoma boasts of being both the top 4K UHD projector brand globally and the number one Digital Light Processing (DLP) brand in the United States for 2022, citing the PMA Research Worldwide Projector Census, making the company no stranger to the world of projected light.

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BenQ TK710 Gaming Projector Review
Michael Hamilton  |  Aug 15, 2025
Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
PRICE $1,999

AT A GLANCE
Plus

  • Input lag lower than a snake's tummy
  • Three-point, easily accessible leveling feet
  • Larger 0.65-inch (2716x1528 pixel) Texas Instruments Single DMD
  • Preset modes tailored to FPS and RPG gaming
  • 3-year/20,000-hour warranty
Minus
  • No Color (Saturation) or Tint (Hue) main controls
  • No HDMI 2.1 features such as ALLM or VRR
  • Anemic onboard 5W Mono audio
  • Compressed color gamuts dull cinematic nuances
  • Some might feel the asking price outweighs the provided amenities

THE VERDICT
BenQ's résumé for its TK710 intimates it seesaws back and forth between being defined as a gaming or entertainment projector. From the gaming perspective, it provides an excellent, class-leading big screen platform for bright, fluid images with ultra-low input latency. Its long-lasting, zero-maintenance laser illumination has ample oomph to adequately overcome moderately elevated ambient light environments.

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