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The BenQ TH585 is your best home theater projector under 500 in 2023. If gaming and watching movies is in your mind, you can’t find any better projector in this price range. The rated 3,500 lumens is bright enough, according to Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) recommendations, for a 270-inch-diagonal, 16:9 image using a 1.0-gain screen in a dark room, or for a 150-inch image in moderately bright ambient light. As with almost any projector, however, the modes you'll actually want to use have significantly lower brightness. I set up the projector for a 90-inch image at 10.5 feet from the screen. Image quality with default settings is excellent for the price and more than acceptable by most folks' standards. Image detail is appropriate for the 1080p resolution, and colors are well within the range for realistic color in most picture modes.
Furthermore, unlike most projectors, the TH585 has a six-segment color wheel, RGBWYC—red-green-blue-white-yellow-cyan, resulting in brighter and vibrant picture quality. Somewhat surprisingly for a gaming projector, the TH585P delivers underwhelmingly low volume, both in absolute terms and for its 10-watt speaker. The audio system is suitable for a small room, but for larger rooms, or even in a small room if you want an immersive audio experience, you'll need to connect an external sound system to the audio-out port.So overall, I declare, for the price, that BenQ TH585 is an attractive and robust entry-level home theater projector for gaming and watching content. Pros & Cons: What I like:
Even though these are two expensive alternatives (GT1080HDR and HD39HDR), the BenQ TH585 has a lot to offer for the price tag it carries. My Take On BenQ TH585: The Conclusion The placement of a projector is not a big thing; you can easily place it on your favorite place or ceiling mount. Though, unfortunately, you might see some projection offset while setting up the projector. As a solution, you have a remote control with a digital lens shift feature, allowing you to correct it digitally in no time. Verdict: BenQ TH585, An Entry-level powerful home theater On the other hand, Game mode offers the best contrast and sense of three-dimensionality in dark scenes, with Living Room mode in second place again and Cinema a close third. So while Game mode is the obvious choice for games, the choice for watching movies and TV depends on whether you need the extra brightness of Living Room mode, and whether you care more about Cinema mode's better color accuracy or Game mode's better contrast, detail in dark or shaded areas, and three-dimensionality.Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. See how we test. On 2023’s home theater projectors’ comparison list, you’ll find these two projectors as well. Like BenQ TH585 and HT2150ST, the Optoma GT1080HDR and HD39HDR are also designed for home theater purposes—gaming and movies—but with higher brightness, contrast, and of course, higher prices.
For my formal tests, I used Cinema mode, with Brilliant Color set to 0, to give the best color accuracy while still being easily bright enough to fill a 90-inch screen in a dark room. In informal tests in a family room with lots of windows, Cinema mode was still bright enough to light up an 80-inch 1.0 gain white screen for nighttime viewing with lights on. Living Room mode was a little brighter, and my preferred choice for daytime viewing. Since the projector offers high brightness and contrast, you’ll enjoy your favorite content even in the ambient lights. Moreover, The BenQ TH585 is a sister model to BenQ HT21050ST and is primarily designed for home theater setup with ambient lights. The model TH585 is a mid-range Full HD home theater projector of BenQ. With a price tag of under 500, the BenQTH585 has a broad range of features to offer. Compared to other same range projectors, the TH585 wins the race of home theater category for the money we put in. Cinema mode offers the best color accuracy and does the best job holding the subtle gradations that give closeups of rounded objects a sense of three-dimensionality. But the slightly brighter Living Room mode is not far behind, and Game mode is close behind that, albeit with slightly less saturated color.An unusual extra at this price is support for digital vertical lens shifting. This feature takes advantage of the extra pixels on the 1,920-by-1,200 chip to let you move the image up or down from its centered position by about 5 percent of the image height. Along with the 1.1x zoom, it allows for some flexibility in positioning the projector. In addition, if you still need to tilt the projector up or down to point at the screen after adjusting the shift, a +/- 30 degree vertical keystone control allows for squaring off the image. Assessing the Color
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