ViewSonic's website touts the PX701HD ($589.99) as ideal for both home and office, but it's better thought of as a home entertainment projector that can also serve for presentations—a statement that's true for almost any home projector. In truth, it's a close match to the BenQ TH585, which BenQ calls a home entertainment model. Like the TH585, the PX701HD offers native 1080p resolution, a low lag time for snap responses in games, a picture mode that brightens the dark areas in game scenes to reveal hidden dangers, and another for watching movies that delivers more dramatic-looking dark scenes and better contrast. It even offers the same 3,500-lumen brightness rating. It's an able full-HD projector choice.Making Pictures, Playing Games Built around a single 1,920-by-1,200 DLP chip, the projector uses only 1,920 by 1,080 pixels on the chip to limit its native resolution to 1080p. Its high brightness rating is due in part to its RBGCYW (red-blue-green-cyan-yellow-white) color wheel. ...
Aimed at homes and offices alike, ViewSonic's PX701HD needs minor color-accuracy tweaking with movies and video. Even so, this nimble projector delivers sufficient brightness for a large image that can stand up to ambient light, plus low lag for gamers.
Low cost; Bright enough to throw a big, nonfading image; Good contrast for the price; Low input lag delivers fast reaction time for gamers; Supports 3D
Default settings make at least some colors in every picture mode obviously off target; Maximum input resolution is limited to 1,920 by 1,200 (WUXGA) for PCs and 1,920 by 1,080 (1080p) for video sources; No HDR support