Anyone looking to get 1080p projector at great price? I just found out Amazon is offering Benq W6000 at USD 2000. You need to use Vpost for delivery and currently vpost is offering 20% shipping fee until end of this year. The total + shipping should be less than RM 8k. My friend just get one unit from ProjectorPeople.com at USD 2499 + USD 290 shipping. The picture had lot of pop and 3d feel to it.

No tax and it is dual voltage 110v to 240v. Just put my order in for W6000. Been considering between AE4000 and W6000 and decided to go for W6000 due to the extra brightness and the latest firmware had solve the iris issue. I'm a DLP guy. I still feel LCD and LCOS picture a bit soft compare to DLP. I believe local AE4000 is not going to be cheap and follow UK pricing which is around RM 11k.

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Added on December 23, 2009, 6:34 pmI feel projector central review a bit bias. I would trust projectorreviews by Art. He even answer my question when compare W6000 to HD82 based purely on picture quality, he advised to pick W6000.

It all depends on your preferences. If you are black level fanatic, then go for AE4000 or even better RS20 or RS25. I wouldn't recommend RS10 or RS15 due to the color gamut issue which is over BT 709 and can't be tuned due to lack of CMS. If you like very sharp image with good 3d pop, then go for DLP projector.

Here's the review with comparison to other projector within the price range. W6000 initial street price is around USD 2.7k (3 months ago).

http://www.projectorreviews.com/benq/w6000/index.php

This post has been edited by pierreye: Dec 23 2009, 06:40 PM

My friend upgrade from AE900 to W6000. According to his comment, the pq upgrade is very drastic. AE-900 is more like toyota altis .

If based on price, benq always more expensive than panasonic. So it's more like VW vs Toyota then.

SVGA projector = compact car
720p projector = mid size car
1080p projector = full size car

Make sense?

This post has been edited by pierreye: Dec 24 2009, 08:33 AM

Welcome to bolehland. Everything cost more except our salary.With coming GST, expect another price hike in electronics.

I owned BENQ PE7700. The first few version firmware had a problem where the fan is not spinning fast enough causing the lamp to burn at around 500 hours. But later firmware update had solved the problem. After sales service previously is quite OK. I burn my lamp and the service center in Penang swap a new lamp and update the firmware without any additional charge. Own it for 3 years + with currently clocking around 1400 hours and still working fine.

Which one? PE7700 lamp without housing is around USD 230 and W6000 is USD 299.

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Added on December 27, 2009, 8:01 amPrice just went up by USD200 last I check in Amazon.

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Added on January 27, 2010, 1:24 amJust posted my mini review on W6000 in avsforum.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread....61#post18007161

This post has been edited by pierreye: Jan 27 2010, 01:24 AM