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BenQ MP622 by John - Jun 11, 2008
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| XGA (1024x768), 2700 ANSI Lumens, 5.2 lbs, $849 (MSRP) |
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| Personal Experience |
| Just got this BenQ 622, to replace my trusty NEC LT240k that blew a color wheel after thousands of hours. This one is so much brighter it's a delight! The subtleties in the 240's contrast range and color balance was much better out of the box, but this 622's brilliance just blows it away. We can now watch tv in daylight with all our big windows open, and it's fine. We'd been using a Hitachi CXP990 while waiting for this $800 622 to arrive from Costco, and it was only marginally brighter but vastly inferior color and of course contrast. The 622's 480 upscaling is very slightly less sharp than the 240 (much better than the 990), but that's of decreasing importance as we move to HD broadcast and it's good enough. In addition to the brightness, the second favorite thing about this 622 other than being half the price of the 240 is how (quiet) it is. Even in normal mode it's audible at 4 feet only in total silence. The quietest parts of movies we've seen still obscure the soft purr of the fan. I've tried sources ranging from XGA computer, downscaled 1080i (622's native is XGA), and everything between down to NTSC. It all looks good, and the scaling is smooth. Very slight screen door visible at about 4' on a 4' high 4:3 screen. Settings out of the box were better than the 990 but far short of the 240. You need to choose one of the User modes to make adjustments and then it starts looking really great. A nice feature is that the settings for a given source seem to be automatically remembered, so the User 1 I have for tv and User 2 for DVD automatically change when I switch sources. |
| Problems |
| Only one VGA -input- though the specs list two connectors, because one is pass through. Makes it harder to connect all my sources (had to use a cheap computer monitor switch I had lying around). Very narrow zoom range makes placement picky to get a fit to my existing screen. Not a biggie if like me you have the ability to place it wherever works best (I'm using home-made ceiling mount). NOTE: focus is completely lost when zooming, unlike the other two units we've set up here at home (in fact I don't recall any we've used at work with this drawback either). Again, not a biggie, given that both zoom and focus are manual so you can do them at the same time in sequence. Only two User setting modes and only passable default modes, so limited preset options. |
