Anyone using the benq w1080st yet if so whats your feeling about it , views ,

[tinker27]

Hi all Anyone using the benq w1080st yet if so whats your feeling about it , views , i want to buy one of these but havent seen any reviews on flight simming or gaming really as a short throw projector im told this is the bees knees ,thanks

[yeter123]

Hi all Anyone using the benq w1080st yet if so whats your feeling about it , views , i want to buy one of these but havent seen any reviews on flight simming or gaming really as a short throw projector im told this is the bees knees ,thanks

Hi,

yes, i use 3 of them on a curved screen. Only thing that suxs is no vertical lens shift so u need to play around to avoid shadows. Other then this, its amazing the diffrence between full HD and non HD.

steve

[dodiano]

How about using just one of them as proposed for your sim ?? To make a 180 degree view with one projector?

[tinker27]

sounds good yeter123 cant decide to go for one , or go for full hd 60 inch led tv ? ....

dodiano just the question i been wanting to ask , as i can only afford one at moment ?

[dodiano]

Yeah someone suggested it earlier this year to use 1 To make a 180 display cause of the closeness and aspect ratio I think it is? Regards

[OmniAtlas]

Perhaps 2x w1080st could work?

[dodiano]

Could be... From my understanding it will give you a 100 inch screen size from 2 meters away?

[yeter123]

Thats stretching it bit too far for my taste ... i guess it all depends on your screen size ? each one of my w1080's beam an image size of 2.8 meter length by 1.67 height.. anything passed this and you will start to see pixels .

[dodiano]

So it is not as good as it was thought it was going to be?

[tinker27]

im still stuck on this , i was told the new full hd tv say 60 inches give better view and no lag now if you get the right one ?
can anyone post a video of a benq w1080st running the sim on its own and with two .

[yeter123]

Here is a short clip of 3 of them running from my cockpit. Vid is low quality so i will be taking another HD vid tomorrow and upload . In this vid there is no edge blend or warp configured.

737jet - YouTube (http://youtu.be/gSN-eOZ1-wI)




im still stuck on this , i was told the new full hd tv say 60 inches give better view and no lag now if you get the right one ?
can anyone post a video of a benq w1080st running the sim on its own and with two .

[tinker27]

yeah looks good , would like to see it in in HD in day light too , what fps ya getting from em ?

[yeter123]

There is no drop in fps if u dont use keystone feature. I get solid locked 30 fps with max settings. There is a new model benq w1500 . U seen this?



yeah looks good , would like to see it in in HD in day light too , what fps ya getting from em ?

[OmniAtlas]

It has been said that it would be impossible to pull off surround visuals with 3x benq w1080p ST because of its ST ratio - 0.69

I am glad you have been able to do it!

[yeter123]

Thanks and boy were they right!! It took me 3 weeks of positioning and tons of warping to get it look good. I will never do that challange again. The projectors are great but need lens shift , i think the throw ratio is fine as long , its the ansence of lens shift feature that makes them a nightmare to install.


It has been said that it would be impossible to pull off surround visuals with 3x benq w1080p ST because of its ST ratio - 0.69

I am glad you have been able to do it!

[OmniAtlas]

Thanks and boy were they right!! It took me 3 weeks of positioning and tons of warping to get it look good. I will never do that challange again. The projectors are great but need lens shift , i think the throw ratio is fine as long , its the ansence of lens shift feature that makes them a nightmare to install.

Did you try the fly-elise auto config? You can use a camera to define the warp area and the software does the rest. Please post up more videos/pictures of your setup -- very interested!

[tinker27]

There is no drop in fps if u dont use keystone feature. I get solid locked 30 fps with max settings. There is a new model benq w1500 . U seen this?

cool ! gonna av a search , i been looking at one of them epson 6100 3lcd they reckon theyre the t*ts ;-)

wonder if we weill ever know which is best ?

[yeter123]

yeah looks good , would like to see it in in HD in day light too , what fps ya getting from em ?

Ok, managed to upload a day time HD clip. I've split into 2 files, one for take-off and one landing. The sim is running 210 degree visuals. Glass cockpit had errors in flight as it loss alignment, still a long way to go before it becomes a stable platform but getting there... enjoy vid at: http://youtu.be/46fVn63w7v8 thanks Steve

[tinker27]

Looks awesome steve i gotta say , i have seen them benq 1500 all pricey tho . Neil

[OmniAtlas]

w1080st sale at amazon for 900 USD. They are selling them over here in Aus for $1100 now.

[Solo86]

A better throw ration (0.5) and Lens Shift is the Optoma GT1080