Now gaming on projectors it's something that a lot of people do why because you get of course
that extra screen size it's super immersive the large image and that's what's really enjoyable
but up until now response times on projectors have not been that good now the projectors i've
reviewed and covered in the channel the best you get out of them is probably around 36 milliseconds
now bnq here has the tk700 sdi the world's first 4k gaming projector here this short
throw projector has a 16 millisecond response time maximum brightness is 3000 ANSI lumens it supports
hdr so with this benq projector we will find this in the box now this is a 4k android tv media hdmi
stick we will end up installing this in the back of it and i'll show you where and how to do so
not hard at all we get a typical looking android tv remote here with all of your basic controls
there there are a few shortcuts for example for amazon video and then a quick start guide and
regulatory and the front of the projector so this is a vent so we've got some fans on this
it's actively called of course like all projectors and i'll get onto the fan noise later on in this
in-depth review so it's a dlp projector 4k hdr support but the impressive thing is of course
that input response time so it is just 16 milliseconds now it can do 120 hertz
that's 1080p with a then 8.8 millisecond response time which is impressive now 3
000 lumens that's ansi lumens maximum output from this and the lamp inside is a philips brand one
on the right side we have another fan there is a speaker we can just see here it's a little sub
the left just part of that fan you can see that was also showing at the front
and the back of it so we've got a power import here with the two hdmi 2.0 spec hdmi ports
so they do support this one hdmi arc and we do have right here vga audio out and a usb
2 port now this right here plastic cover this is where we install that media stick there okay
that's running android tv so that slots into the side you slot and then the micro usb for power the
good thing about this design even though it looks a little bit odd that means that we can easily
upgrade this when newer models come out imagine it comes out within wi-fi ax support more powerful
they move over to octa-cores better video playback performance and support then you can simply just
upgrade it so in a way this is actually quite a good design you can upgrade it without having
to replace the whole projector so that simply just slots on over the top and then you put that
screw on and everything's then hidden away along the top we've got some status leds there are our
controls right here so you can use it without the remote and here we have an ambient light sensor
and this is for our zoom and then to focus the lens and then lastly the underside here we do have
three adjustable rubber feet so first up our ui so this is that 4k
tv stick that you plug into it from benq okay and that gives us amazon prime netflix unfortunately
is not supported so i tried to install it you don't do google apps and it simply doesn't show
up and if you did sideload it it's going to be in standard definition but what we do have is
full amazon prime video support at least with this now you get your typical settings the menus seem
to be well just like any other android tv 9 tv box that i've tested out basically so just go into
this to show you how quick it does load up all right so the expanse was what i was just watching
last and i will hit resume here just to give you an idea now this is with wi-fi five here
because it cases in very quick it's a way it's loading and the image quality does look really
good which i'll be getting on to shortly i'll focus on that image quality and a little bit
more gaming in this projector review obviously because this well is a gaming focus projector
so right here we've got picture modes there are various different ones you can go through
depending on you know what you're watching if you're going to be gaming you keep it on
the game mode if you're watching movies in the cinema mode very straightforward with that it's
just going to change the tones the contrast and the different lamp settings and things to really
optimize it for ideal settings game settings this is the interesting one here so i do have it set to
game mode as fps on high this is the fastest mode to get that blazing fast for projectors that is
16 millisecond mode so we really do want to have that on sound mode that's just for that single
speaker that i showed you before when we looked at it and i'll give you sample that speaker later
on and important is this one right here the light source mode so if you do adjust this you
can extend the life span of the projector lamp so eco mode will give us uh this one smart eco
the effect echoes for 10 000 hours and then we do have normal mode so this normal mode of course is
the maximum brightness this is our three thousand ansi lumens but four thousand hours out of that
lamp which is still quite a lot that's going to be yet for me with my use eco ten thousand as
mentioned smart echoes eight thousand hours and adjusts automatically depending on your content
and then lamp save mode is 15 000 hours then for that particular lamp so yes it is a little bit
less than some of the other projectors i have been reviewing in the channel but you have to remember
this is a brighter projector than those ones i have been reviewing
straightforward here is 3d keystone and then menu type 2 advanced you can also jump into that
and you can really tweak those settings there when it comes to the picture quality in fact
i prefer this menu here it's very clear okay and you can change a lot of different settings
really good that we've got all of this okay that's all in there you can see information about
also how long the lamp has been running for you can see light source each time now looking at
our image quality this is a 4k clip and i'm really pleased with you can tell straight away when you
look at this that yes it's definitely 4k very very detailed looking images the difference between
going especially with projectors from 1080p to 4k is so obvious when you're projecting especially
a large image like this one onto a projector screen that i'm using at the moment it looks great
now the blacks they're not super deep but for a projector they look good and what i'm not seeing
is a lot of noise in the blacks which is another good thing there's been a few projectors that
i've covered in the channel that have had really noisy blacks and that is simply not the case here
with this one i think the image quality is great brightness is excellent so right now i have almost
no ambient light but i'll now open up some blinds and we'll see what it looks like with a little bit
of daylight coming in perfectly watchable this is fine i mean i can even turn some lights on
and it's still clear i'd be happy to game and watch movies with some ambient light now ideally
you'd turn all the lights off and it just looks so much better but because of the brightness of this
one i think it's fine it's still usable even if you've got maybe some top windows in a room that
you cannot close you don't have blinds for them you still be able to make use of this projector
and even now worst case scenario i've got the lights on in the room i can see everything
now it's not looking so great it looks a little bit washed out but i think it's still watchable
at least if you're not too fast there it is if you've just got something running in the
background that you're not constantly looking at doing other things you've
got the room lights on hey you can still see the images fine that's being projected
so you can see i'm in the game mode and it is detected my playstation 5 detects this as being
hdr compatible i've configured it right there so hdr 10 and i'll first take a look at final fantasy
7 which is not going to be so dependent on that fast response time but even so all games really do
benefit from it so the game just looks absolutely stunning on this projector i really do like it i
mean i can carefully game like this to me this is better than being on a 65-inch 4k tv i've had one
and i just prefer this i think this is better it's so much more immersive the larger size
huge screen at the moment like i'm almost at 90 inches here but i can go up to about 110 if i
remove the projector screen it's just so immersive and great now you can see here with the blacks
it's looking pretty good in the hdr mode here
dirt five now at the high frame rate mode it looks really good but it is only 1080p and i'm noticing
yes definitely here the response time seems to be great for a fast paced game like this one dirt
five now i'm not seeing any noticeable tearing either coming through no it looks good and you
can double check again by just pressing that menu key there you can see when that comes up
that yes it's hdr game that it's in the mode and 120 hertz 1080p there and it is looking excellent
very good really really fast so overall looks great for gaming but i'm just gonna now put it
into the 4k mode and see how it fares now even at 4k 60 we are getting that 16 millisecond response
time and it just seems so much better really i'm not it's like it's not a projector it really is
it's just great this gaming performance i would rate it as being well pretty similar to a tv of
course if you've got an oled tv then well that's probably a lot better some of those oleds out
there like my lg cx does support 120 hertz 4k with some really good response times it's got g-sync
support and amd freesync which this of course is lacking still for a projector this screen size
so immersive and just really gonna have to say amazing performance for gaming on a projector
and then that brings me on to now the audio performance out of that single speaker that
is in this projector so it's just mono all right no stereo speakers for built-in speakers
it sounds okay but i've certainly heard better out of other brands but at least it is there
and here's a sample of it at 100 volume you can see that the volumes i think it's okay
and it does have a hint of bass to it but it's not a speaker that is going
to blow you away most people will be using their own external speaker setup
now just how hot does it get well up to about 90 degrees internally as you can see
there the air that's been pushed out by the two fans so one sucking and the other blowing out
is up to around about 40 degrees they're quite warm it will almost act as a small heater great
for winter but not so good in summer and what about my overall opinion now i have used this
on and off now for a week and i think for gaming definitely this is the projector to get as it is
marketed as yes gaming projector fast response time typical projectors out there will be 35 60
even 60. yes 50 40 milliseconds this is 16. so that is a bit of a break few through there for 4k
but not only that as i showed you and demonstrated that it can do the 1080p 120 hertz with that
response time so response time for projectors is excellent very good image quality great brightness
looks detailed very sharp especially of course when you run 4k you notice that difference
going from 1080p to 4k with projectors just like tvs large tvs it's a must for the large images
there's no way i want to be projecting 100 inches at only 1080p it just looks a bit washed out
lacking details but not with this one the blacks don't have that terrible noise that
i've seen with some other brands which are quite knowing well-known ones like x gimme with their
4k projector i saw a little bit of noise in the blacks wasn't too happy with that not happening
with this one right here so what are things i don't like about now the tk 700 sti well that hdmi
media pen drive well the hdmi stick sorry you slot into the back and then you screw over the cover
it's not really that great okay it doesn't have netflix support it's fast and performance is okay
amazon prime video looks good on it and there's no even built-in file manager stock with it okay
because you can't plug in external drives with it you can't plug in a flash drive formatted to fat32
didn't work the usb port on the back is just power only not data so i would probably be getting the
fire stick 4k from amazon and use it in this i think would be a lot better then you get netflix
and 4k hdr support of course which this does support now the other thing the single loudspeaker
it's good that we do have a loudspeaker on this but it's just one so it's in mono and the quality
will not rate as amazing i think for the average joe out there it will be fine for the occasional
use imagine you're using this projector in a business meeting for presentations or something
not for gaming you could do it for that and people would still be able to hear it it's
loud enough for that but you'd have your external speaker system of course with something like this
especially with gaming to get that immersive loud bass with the explosions gunfire whatever
okay fan noise definitely there as i showed you it also pumps out quite a bit of heat from
this corner around 40 degrees so eventually in summer especially it will warm up a room
if you're running it for hours on end if you sit right next to it too you're going to hear the fan
if you're not too far away from it then you don't really hear it it's just a constant noise and it's
dependent of course on the brightness level that you're using with it depending on the lamp mode
so in the normal mode 4 000 hours the lamp is rated to and there's a counter in there so you
can time that it'll advise you and let you know when it's time to recommend it change for that
lamb time to actually swap it over of course and then on the absolute top saving mode which is
not the brightest then it is 25 000 hours which seems kind of normal then so there we go that
is pretty much all there is to know about the benq the tk 700 sti for gamers this is the 4k
gaming projector to get and as i mentioned at the start it is the world's first 4k gaming projector
so thanks a lot for watching this review i do hope to see you back with my next up and coming reviews