BenQ HT5550 Projector Review- Advanced Calibration

The default color gamut was hand adjusted at the factory. The values for all six colors were not at their centered (default) positions as most projectors are. The pre-calibration color gamut measurements were actually quite good but had the familiar errors I see on nearly all DLP projectors. The most common of these is saturation linearity errors, seen here mostly with red. Also, some of the colors don’t make it out to 100% REC.709 and there are the hue errors especially among the secondary colors. Thankfully the CMS does work well and so I was able to make improvements in all those areas I mentioned. Post-calibration color gamut was excellent, one of the best I’ve seen with DLP.

BenQ advertises the HT5550 as hitting 100% of the P3-DCI color gamut (with the WCG filter on). My pre-CMS calibration measurements did not bear this out. Except for magenta all the colors fell short of their 100% saturation targets. Red, green and yellow were the worst offenders ranging from 70 to 90% coverage and the oh so common linearity issues were also on display.

During my CMS calibrations, I was able to move the 100% saturation points out a tiny bit. If I moved them too much however, it would increase the linearity errors of the lower saturation points. Overall, I felt post-calibration image/color did look better than it actually measured through the HDR effect was low (even for a projector).