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A bright and affordable projector.
BenQ is probably better known for its LCD monitor business than for projectors and other large-screen display products. In fact, with a name that's only two years old (the company was originally called Acer Multimedia), BenQ is the second-largest manufacturer of LCD monitors in the world. That gives the company both solid name recognition and a strong resale infrastructure. It also gives BenQ a significant opportunity to extend its brand to include large-panel LCDs, plasmas, and projectors. One of BenQ's latest business projectors is the PB7220.
The PB7220 sits right about in the middle of BenQ's surprisingly broad projector line, which has grown from just a single home-theater projector to more than a dozen models in just over a year. These now range from tiny travel projectors to larger and brighter conference room units. At just less than 6 pounds, the PB7220 is small enough to carry and, at almost 2500 lumens, bright enough for regular conference and boardroom use.
THE BASICS
Not surprisingly, given BenQ's vast industrial design experience, the PB7220 is housed in a handsome two-tone, magnesium alloy chassis of silver with black details. Manual focus and zoom rings for the recessed lens housing are easily accessible through a cutout in the top of the unit, and an elastic string tethers the lens cap to the projector so it never gets lost.
Rather than four individual buttons, the four menunavigation arrows on the unit's top are actually the four ends of a single cross-shaped button. That will help you find them in a dark room should you need to do so. Four other dedicated unit-top buttons are Power, Source, Auto (adjust), and Blank (or "mute" video). The accompanying remote, on the other hand, has several direct controls, including those for keystone correction, wireless mouse functionality, aspect ratio, and for...