A display and nothing else: reference DCI-P3 color and a glass lens for a blacked-out room — no apps, no excuses.

BenQ W5800

BenQ

Its budget goes to optics and color, not a headline lumen number — 100% DCI-P3 and a 14-element glass lens give a razor-sharp dark-room picture with real lens shift. But it's display-only (no apps, no speakers, laggy gaming), and its DLP blacks trail native-4K rivals.

The W5800 is the outlier in this lineup: a pure home-cinema projector built for one thing, a blacked-out dedicated theater. There's no smart platform, no built-in speakers, and gaming is laggy — it's a display and nothing else. What it spends its money on instead is optics. A 14-element all-glass lens with an aspheric low-dispersion element delivers edge-to-edge 4K sharpness the plastic-lens lifestyle crowd can't touch, and it's one of the few projectors here with true motorized zoom, focus, and lens shift for drop-in placement anywhere in the room. Its rated 2,600 ANSI lumens is honest — labs measure 2,627–2,680, at or above spec, and even its color-accurate Filmmaker mode stays within ~18% of peak, where lesser projectors halve their light for accuracy. Color is the headline: 100% DCI-P3 and 100% Rec.709 from an RGBRGB wheel with no brightness-robbing filter, and near-reference accuracy out of the box. HDR covers HDR10, HDR10+, HLG, and Filmmaker, with BenQ's HDR-PRO tone mapping doing a genuinely good job — though there's no Dolby Vision. The limit, and the reason it isn't a runaway pick, is black level. Like all single-chip 0.47-inch DLP projectors it can't produce truly inky blacks; Dynamic Black and a 1,000-zone Local Contrast Enhancer help, but out of the box shadows look slightly gray. At $5,999 for a display-only projector, it faces stiff competition from native-4K LCoS rivals like Sony's VPL-XW5000ES that give deeper blacks for similar money. If you have a dark room, external AV, and value color and sharpness above all, it's superb; if you want one box that also streams, games, and sounds good, look higher up this list.

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Last reviewed Jul 6, 2026

What we like

• ✓100% DCI-P3 color with near-reference out-of-the-box accuracy
• ✓14-element all-glass lens — edge-to-edge 4K sharpness the lifestyle crowd can't match
• ✓True motorized zoom, focus, and lens shift for drop-in placement
• ✓Honest 2,600 lumens — measured at or above spec, even in accurate modes
• ✓Long-throw flexibility up to a 200" screen, with 3D support

Trade-offs

• −0.47" DLP black floor can't do truly inky blacks — shadows look slightly gray
• −No smart platform and no built-in speakers — you supply streaming and sound
• −Laggy for gaming
• −$5,999, against native-4K rivals like Sony's XW5000ES with deeper blacks