# BenQ W2720i

- Source: https://stierproducts.com/products/benq-w2720i
- Category board: https://stierproducts.com/categories/projectors
- Placement: #5 of 29 in Projectors, A tier
- Brand: BenQ
- LP on this board: 655
- Last researched: 2026-09-09T21:48:40.383Z
- Method: https://stierproducts.com/methodology
- Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22062813 - every board at once, one dated snapshot per release, same licence, prices and photographs left out
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## Verdict

What Hi-Fi?'s number three and the honest mid-price dedicated home theater buy. It does the fundamentals right without paying for excess.

## For

- Dedicated 4K home theater projector with BenQ's color-accurate tuning
- Considered best-in-class material at a mainstream price by What Hi-Fi?
- Sits among projectors costing two to three times as much in the guide
- Number three on What Hi-Fi?'s current best-projectors list
- Long-standing recommendation in the mid-range home cinema class

## Against

- Does not chase flagship brightness or contrast

## Evidence

Consolidated from 19 cited sources across 18 outlets

| Outlet | Said by | Stance | Link | Link status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| True 4K Smart Home Cinema! | - | B | https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUQZpB1CIxQ/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Theatre Zone | theatrezone.com.au | B | https://theatrezone.com.au/product/benq-w2720i-4k-home-cinema-projector/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Avconsultants | avconsultants.in | B | https://avconsultants.in/10804/epson-eh-ls9000b-vs-benq-w2720i-w4100i-projector-comparison-by-av-consultants/blog-single/blogs/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Instagram | - | B | https://www.instagram.com/p/DZmA1X9gTPF/ | fetched and confirmed |
| TheGrandTest | TheGrandTest | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfH3doHy7c | fetched and confirmed |
| Movie Nerds | Movie Nerds | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ytg6tc2Z0 | fetched and confirmed |
| Screen Bandits | Screen Bandits | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8KSySRLeuI | fetched and confirmed |
| Le collectionneur | Le collectionneur | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbLtH7HADdM | fetched and confirmed |
| SoundNStyle | SoundNStyle | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3I6m-iqDU8 | fetched and confirmed |
| HEIMKINORAUM | HEIMKINORAUM | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH6IwWXfsE | fetched and confirmed |
| Build Montage | - | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROAiWxMeFg#comments | fetched and confirmed |
| HEIMKINORAUM | - | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH6IwWXfsE#comments | fetched and confirmed |
| Tech Steve | Tech Steve | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2ZiI04pwc | fetched and confirmed |
| The Listening Post Christchurch \| TLPCHC | The Listening Post Christchurch \| TLPCHC | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOW2Psh-ZEs | fetched and confirmed |
| Stuff India | Stuff India | B | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJd1sJjV34 | fetched and confirmed |
| FOCUSED INSIGHT | Focused Insight Editorial Team | A | https://focusedinsight.net/benq-w2720i/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Trusted Reviews | John Archer | S | https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/benq-w2720i | fetched and confirmed |
| What Hi-Fi? | whathifi.com | B | https://www.whathifi.com/tv-home-cinema/projectors/quick-you-can-save-a-massive-gbp300-on-this-award-winning-benq-projector | fetched and confirmed |
| Arabian Reseller | Chris Fernando | B | https://arabianreseller.com/2025/09/22/benq-w2720i-4k-projector-review-stunning-4k-hdr-smart-features-and-serious-style/ | fetched and confirmed |

## Nearest alternatives on this board

| Rank | Product | Tier | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Epson Home Cinema LS11000 | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/epson-home-cinema-ls11000 |
| 2 | Sony VPL-XW5000ES | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/sony-vpl-xw5000es |
| 3 | Hisense C2 Ultra | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/hisense-c2-ultra |
| 4 | JVC DLA-NZ500 | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/jvc-dla-nz500 |
| 6 | Epson EH-LS9000 | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/epson-eh-ls9000 |
| 7 | XGIMI TITAN | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/xgimi-titan |
| 8 | Epson QB1000 | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/epson-qb1000 |
| 9 | Hisense PX3-Pro | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/hisense-px3-pro |
| 10 | Epson Pro Cinema LS12000 | B | https://stierproducts.com/products/epson-pro-cinema-ls12000 |
| 29 | BenQ TH671ST | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/benq-th671st |

The full board is at https://stierproducts.com/categories/projectors.

## What this tier means

- A: Excellent. Strongly recommended, beaten only by the very best.

## How to read this

- Each category is researched in four independent runs, one per lens (expert consensus, value, reliability, community pulse). Every run ranks a board of candidates that deliberately includes products buyers cross-shop but should avoid. Placements score on a ranked ladder (LP), and tiers are derived from LP, so no tier is ever assigned by hand.
- LP is this product's points on its own category ladder. It is comparable within a category and not across categories.
- Link status reports what our pre-publication link check found when it fetched the cited URL. It says nothing about the quality of the review.
- A citation with no usable link is listed rather than dropped, and is excluded from the counted total above.

## Image

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