PROJECTION is often overlooked as a format for a good gaming display, and with good reason. Over the years, they’ve been held back by a multitude of factors: poor brightness, space requirements, lens burn-in from static imager y (OLED says hello), low resolution, price, and of course, refresh rate.
There’s a lot to put off any would-be buyer, par ticularly when looking at their next big-screen purchase. Times have changed, however, and projectors have come a long way since those days of yore. Yes, they’re still remarkably expensive pieces of equipment, but the tech you get with them these days very much justifies the cost. Well, almost.
Take this Benq X3100i 4K gaming projector. It’s robust and chunky, complete with a 3,300 lumens brightness, 3,840x2,160 resolution, 600,000:1 contrast ratio, 1.07-billion color support, and a bulb lifetime of around 20,000 hours in normal use (that’s 2.28 years of continuous 24/7 usage). Combine that with 100 percent DCI-P3 coverage, compatibility with Android TV as standard, and super-low latency modes, as well as a high-refresh 1080p mode, and this thing is onto a winner.
The long and the short of it is that you can take this beautiful piece of kit, bang it on a 150-inch screen, and game to your heart’s content, either at 4K 60 fps or 120 fps 1080p. What’s not to love? Well, a few things, actually.