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For audio, the onboard 5-watt chamber speaker delivered sufficiently high quality to be usable at high enough volume to fill a small to medium size room. For better quality, you can connect an external audio system using the 3.5mm audio out port or the one HDMI port that offers audio return. The TK700 comes with a wide range of preset modes to make the most of your projector. Featuring 3D, Bright, Cinema, Game, HDR, HDR Game, HDR10, HLG, Living Room and Sport preset modes with unique settings for each mode, it’s easy to tailor the projector to your ideal setting.
Input lag is the major curse for gamers. There’s little more frustrating to a gamer than when the vision just doesn’t respond fast enough to the controls. It can mean the difference between onscreen life or death, a lap record or second place or simply missing out on completing the level in time. With its class-leading 16ms response, the TK700 is amongst the fastest responding 4K projectors in its class. Now there is no excuse for not beating your rival to the draw.Zoom Lens Light Loss. The TK700's light loss when shifting from the widest zoom ring position to its longest telephoto ring position was 16.1%. Rivals have the W1800 beaten when it comes to HDR, brightness and contrast, then, but you’ll struggle to find another 4K projector at this price that delivers a more natural, cinematic image. It’s the colours that swing it for the W1800, though. Not only did this projector slightly exceed Rec.709 in testing but colour accuracy is fantastic by projector standards, with an average Delta E of 2.89. Its only serious rival here is the Viewsonic X10-4K and that’s slightly more expensive.
Users who would calibrate will be glad to know you can get a fairly accurate picture with the controls given. The controls provided within the projector are your standard fare of 2-point grayscale controls and CMS (color management system) to adjust RGBCMY primary and secondary color points. These same controls are available in HDR picture modes as well. Grayscale can be dialed in nicely, though given the gamut specification, color can't be dialed in to fully cover the Rec.709 color space, and there's no support for WCG (wide color gamut) for HDR. Moving the Lamp Mode from Normal to ECO resulted in a 33% reduction of light output in any picture mode, while Smart ECO resulted in a 33% reduction in light output, and Lamp Save resulted in 33% light reduction while in SDR. The TK700 did a decent job with shadow detail and highlights in SDR. In HDR it didn't fare as well as I would have hoped; note that the TK700 does not offer any type of dynamic iris to assist with dark content. Motion was excellent however in everything I demoed while using it from games, to movies, and test patterns. This projector does not have any motion interpolation features, which makes perfect sense considering it is a gaming projector and to get the best performance when it comes to input latency you would want all of that turned off. So it's nice to see it has such good motion on all types of content without the need of such features.In HDR, changing Lamp Mode from Normal to ECO resulted in a 30% reduction of light output in any HDR picture modes, while Smart ECO resulted in a 27% reduction in light output, and Lamp Save resulted in 38% light reduction. BenQ TK700 ANSI Lumens Mode The color temperature settings that were most accurate out of the box were actually Native and Cool, which provided a tighter grayscale until about 50% stimuli (brightness) and then starts to push blue through the remainder of the grayscale as it gets brighter. The Normal and Warm color temperature settings pushed red throughout the entire grayscale range. Measurements also revealed that Native color temperature put colors within the Rec.709 color space closer to being on target as well. The BenQ W1800 can do up to 15,000 hours in its lamp save mode, but only 8,000 in the most balanced Smart Eco mode and just 4,000 when it’s set to normal. After that, you’re looking at a pricey lamp replacement. Similar to its predecessor, the TK700 has a specification of covering 96% of the Rec.709 color gamut; we verified it with a very close measurement of 94.6%. So, while there are definitely some similarities between the two models, the most obvious difference is in throw ratio, where the TK700's 1.3X zoom is spec'd at 1.13 to 1.46:1. The TK700 also has only one special genre-based game mode where its predecessor had three (more on that below). Outside of the obvious difference in the lens (which has a shroud on the TK700STi to prevent light spill) and a few various markings, such as the LumiExpert and 4K badges, the design of the TK700 and TK700STi look identical.
SDR Viewing. I decided to watch Skyfall in 1080p and the presentation was good. In the scene where Bond meets Q in the Museum the flesh tones looked mostly right—not the best that I've seen, but very good. All the detail I was expecting to see was there as well, such as those in the design on the wallpaper behind them, the stripes in Q's white shirt, etc. Everything resolved perfectly. The only thing that was a little off was the color and flesh tones. It wasn't bad, but it was missing just a tad bit of saturation that I know should be there in Q's face. Initial impressions of the out of the box (OOTB) performance pre-calibration were that Bright and User would be very suitable for Bright Room viewing with a fair amount of ambient light. If you wanted a little more accuracy in that setting, the Living Room picture mode would be the ideal go-to. Dark room viewing would be best to utilize Cinema picture mode. With any of these picture modes using either Native or Normal color temperatures would come down to preference. The HDR modes are a little simpler due to both modes performing roughly the same. None of the picture modes were dead on accurate OOTB however, and that was very visible in all of the colors. Featuring super-high brightness at 3200 ANSI Lumens, the TK700 is ideal for use in ‘normal’ living room light levels. This means you get vivid, dynamic colour, without having to draw curtains and blinds.
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The devices I used for reviewing content post-calibration were Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, Gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX3090 graphics, Oppo UDP-203, and Fire TV 4K. Among the other notable features of the TK700 is 3D, which is actually very bright when triggered, though the projector does not offer any control to increase or decrease the 3D effect. Also, the TK700 includes BenQ's LumiExpert, which is useful for automatically adjusting perceived brightness by tweaking the gamma based on the ambient light in the room. This feature may prove useful if you place this projector in a multi-purpose room such as a living room that has a fair amount of ambient light that changes throughout the day or you like to watch with different levels of room lighting at different times. Two other things surprised me. One is that the TK700 has onboard sound and that it’s actually sound worth using. There’s no stereo separation, which is going to be an issue in many action games, but there’s plenty of volume and what’s there sounds decent, with a strong low end and respectable detail. I happily played Destiny 2 and Elden Ring without plugging in headphones or a soundbar and had disgruntled family members demanding that I turn the volume down. Input Lag. Input lag measurements were taken using the lag measurement function on a Murideo 8K Seven Generator. Within the TK700's Game picture mode, in the Game Settings menu, Fast Mode must be turned to on to receive the lowest input lag. These measurements were performed three times for each signal listed for a total of 30 measurements. All measurements averaged 2-3ms higher than the measurements listed in specification, though additional testing with other displays suggest this may be attributable to the measuring device.
Additionally, the TK700 includes one 5W chamber speaker that utilizes treVolo and Bongiovi DPS technology, which optimizes the audio signal in an attempt to add depth and immersion to the sound. This is available in the included Cinema, Music, Game, Sports, and User presets. I found the speaker suitable for some content such as watching YouTube or something of the like, however it was not really suitable for movies and an external audio solution is highly recommended such as a soundbar or AVR and speakers. Designed for the fastest gaming response, the BenQ TK700 brings cinematic gaming, without compromise. Users who are looking for an affordable, well-performing projector capable of taking advantage of the newest current-generation gaming consoles but have always been on the fence about projection gaming will be glad to know that this is a very suitable solution—assuming you can work around or live with some of the TK700's limitations. The TK700 utilizes a lamp based light source and Texas Instruments 0.47-inch DLP chip. Any single chip DLP projector has the potential for showing rainbow effects, but fortunately, during my time with the projector, I did not experience any in any content that I viewed. Of course, 4K projectors that use the 0.47-inch DLP DMD are not true native 4K. They actually utilize 4-way XPR (Expanded Pixel Resolution) pixel shift at 240Hz to take the DMD's native 1920x1080 resolution up to 8.3 million pixels on screen. The projector does accept a 3840x2160 resolution signal and it's actually quite sharp, to the point where only those with the keenest eyes would likely be able to see it is not native 4K.For home entertainment, and for gamers who want to move up to a big-screen 4K HDR image and the shortest input lags available, the BenQ TK700 can be a solid entry-level projector. If rainbow artifacts are an issue for you, however, be sure to consider the Optoma UHD35 instead, which offers slightly higher brightness along with essentially the same input lag times, and did a better job of avoiding showing the red-green-blue flashes in our tests. User picture mode uncalibrated is 99.6% as bright as Bright picture mode and HDR10 picture mode is 99.2% as bright.
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