Native panel, pixel shift, or upscaling — three different things · review
A 4K HDR projector with Google TV on board and a stated 3 000 ANSI lumens — the built-in system is the reason to choose it, and the reason to check licensing before buying.
The bottom line The self-contained 4K option: bright enough to be stated in ANSI, complete enough to need nothing else plugged into it, and dependent on a software layer whose future is a licensing question.
A 4K projector with HDR support and Google TV built in, rated at 3 000 ANSI lumens. It is a complete source and display in one chassis.
A projector with an operating system is bought as an appliance. That removes a box, a cable and a remote — and it makes the machine’s usefulness partly a licensing question. Which services are available, and at what resolution, is decided by agreements between the manufacturer and the platforms, and it changes with firmware. Check the services you actually subscribe to, by name, on the maker’s own page.
3 000 ANSI lumens. ANSI is measured to a defined procedure, which is what makes one figure comparable to another. On this shelf, machines quoting unqualified “lumens” cannot be compared to this one at all — there is no conversion between the two, because one of them is not a measurement.
A native contrast ratio, and a throw ratio. The second is the one to chase down before buying: throw ratio multiplied by image width gives the distance the machine needs, and that arithmetic decides whether it fits your room long before any picture specification does.
BenQ splits home cinema and gaming explicitly rather than badging one machine as both. A model tuned for input lag and refresh rate is a different product from one tuned for contrast and colour, and knowing which you are looking at is half of choosing well here.
On sale from 1225 € to 1349 € on the German, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores at the time of checking.
Not found on the American Amazon store, where the buy link falls back to a local search rather than to a page that does not exist.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 4 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Resolution | 4K — stated |
|---|---|
| Brightness | 3 000 ANSI lumens — stated in a measured unit |
| HDR | HDR supported — stated |
| Operating system | Google TV, built in — stated |
| Amazon reference | B0FPQDW1P1 (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces) |
| EAN | 4718755096327 |
Not for most services, and it is worth checking the specific ones you subscribe to on the maker's own page. Built-in systems are governed by licensing rather than by hardware, and a service that runs at full resolution on one model can be capped on another with the same processor.
No, and the distinction matters more on a projector than on a television. Accepting an HDR signal is one claim; having the brightness and contrast to show what HDR encodes is another. A projector tone-maps the range into what it can produce, and how well it does that is not on any specification sheet.
4K UHD 3 840 × 2 160 · 4 000 ANSI lumens · 10 000:1 stated contrast · keystone · 3 W speaker
A 4K UHD DLP projector that states its brightness in ANSI lumens at a price where most of the shelf stops doing so — and a specification sheet that reads like a data table rather than a sales page.
Best for: A first 4K projector in a room where the light can be controlled and the machine can sit where the throw ratio wants it.
≈ $1179 / 710 €
4K PRO-UHD · 3 000 lumens white AND colour brightness · 40 000:1 stated contrast · 3LCD · optional Wi-Fi
A 3LCD projector that publishes white and colour brightness as the same figure — a distinction single-chip machines rarely make, and one that decides how a saturated image actually looks.
Best for: A viewer who notices colour rather than pixel count, and anyone bothered by the rainbow effect single-chip projectors can produce.
≈ £959 / 937 €
High contrast ALR surface · motorised · 100 inch · 221 × 124 cm · 16:9
A high-contrast surface on a motorised roller — the ambient-light answer for a room that also has to give the wall back.
Best for: A living room with light that cannot be controlled, where the screen still has to disappear when the film ends.
≈ 1549 €
