BenQ TK705STi 4K Projector Review: A Midrange Pick for Gamers
BenQ TK705STi 4K Projector Review: A Midrange Pick for Gamers
BenQ TK705STi 4K 投影仪评测：游戏玩家的中端之选
Home cinema projectors are all over the map in terms of price and performance. It’s often the case that you get what you pay for. High-end projectors that mimic what you see at the local cineplex can cost upwards of $6,000. On the lower end, you could easily pay less than $1,000 for a home projector, but you may sacrifice brightness, contrast, and color quality. Many of our favorite projectors sit somewhere in the middle in terms of price and quality. That is certainly true of the BenQ TK705STi short-throw projector. 家用投影仪在价格和性能上差异巨大。通常情况下，一分钱一分货。那些能媲美电影院效果的高端投影仪价格可能高达 6,000 美元以上。而在低端市场，你很容易就能买到 1,000 美元以下的家用投影仪，但你可能需要在亮度、对比度和色彩质量上做出妥协。我们最喜欢的一些投影仪在价格和质量上往往处于中间地带。BenQ TK705STi 短焦投影仪正是如此。
The main cost-justifying reason to consider buying this 4K projector appeals to gamers, who will appreciate its low-latency performance and larger screen size. Once you see James Bond on a 12.5-foot screen while playing 007 First Light on Xbox, you’ll wonder why you didn’t make the upgrade sooner. Being a short-throw projector, it’s also nice to be able to operate the TK705STi in just about any room in your home. You can position it a few feet from a wall or across the room, allowing for great flexibility. 考虑购买这款 4K 投影仪的主要理由在于它对游戏玩家的吸引力，他们会非常欣赏其低延迟表现和大屏幕体验。当你通过 Xbox 玩《007：第一道光》(007 First Light) 时，在 12.5 英尺的屏幕上看到詹姆斯·邦德，你会感叹为什么没有早点升级。作为一款短焦投影仪，TK705STi 可以在家中的几乎任何房间使用，这一点也非常棒。你可以将其放置在离墙几英尺远的地方，或者放在房间的另一端，这提供了极大的灵活性。
That said, the TK705STi is not for everyone. Movies and TV shows didn’t look that impressive using this projector—certainly not in comparison to the top-rated Leica Cine Play 1, which costs about twice the price. I also dealt with a few glitches with auto-keystoning; once I figured out how to manually adjust the screen, this was fine but still a pain. Mainly, though, I recommend the TK705STi for gamers who don’t need high-end home-cinema picture quality, since the overall performance of this projector is just average. 话虽如此，TK705STi 并不适合所有人。使用这款投影仪观看电影和电视节目的效果并不令人惊艳——与价格约为其两倍的顶级 Leica Cine Play 1 相比，差距明显。我在使用自动梯形校正功能时也遇到了一些小故障；虽然弄清楚如何手动调整屏幕后问题解决了，但过程依然很麻烦。不过，我主要还是向那些不需要高端家庭影院画质的游戏玩家推荐 TK705STi，因为这款投影仪的整体表现只能算中规中矩。
Living the Short-Throw Dream
实现短焦梦想
The BenQ TK705STi is a short-throw projector that’s designed to sit close to the wall. The TK705STi has a throw ratio of .8:1, which means you divide the wall size by the short-throw percentage. To get a 10-foot-wide image, for example, you’d place the projector about 8 feet away, which is exactly what I did in my windowless test area. (Later, in a brightly lit family room with big windows, I increased the screen size to 12 feet wide by placing the projector 10 feet from a wall.) BenQ TK705STi 是一款专为贴墙放置而设计的短焦投影仪。TK705STi 的投射比为 0.8:1，这意味着你可以用墙面尺寸除以投射比例来计算距离。例如，要获得 10 英尺宽的图像，你需要将投影仪放置在距离墙面约 8 英尺的地方，这正是我在无窗测试区所做的操作。（后来，在一个有大窗户、光线充足的家庭活动室里，我通过将投影仪放置在距离墙面 10 英尺的地方，将屏幕尺寸增加到了 12 英尺宽。）
After I put the projector in its spot, I noticed its legs were just a bit shaky. Not wobbly, but lacking the stability I would prefer for a midrange projector like this one. If I bumped the table, the projector would jostle around quite easily and even start auto-keystoning again—a feature I found to be finicky at best, often mapping incorrectly to the wall or screen. (For what it’s worth, BenQ reps said this is not normal and could have been related to my projector screen.) 将投影仪放置好后，我注意到它的支脚有点晃动。虽然不至于不稳，但对于这样一款中端投影仪来说，缺乏我所期望的稳定性。如果我碰到桌子，投影仪很容易晃动，甚至会重新触发自动梯形校正——我发现这个功能非常挑剔，经常无法正确映射到墙面或屏幕上。（值得一提的是，BenQ 的代表表示这并不正常，可能与我的投影幕布有关。）
On the plus side, I liked how easy it was to find the power button on the side of the projector, and it was also a breeze to adjust the digital zoom. The cloth fabric on the front of this all-silver, cube-shaped projector is a nice touch. 从好的方面来看，我很喜欢它在投影仪侧面设置电源按钮的便捷性，调整数字变焦也非常轻松。这款全银色立方体投影仪正面的织物材质是一个不错的点缀。
The TK705STi has two HDMI ports, one USB 2.0 port, and one USB-C port, which you can use for attaching a thumb drive or a hard drive. There’s a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, but no digital optical port or Ethernet port. It supports fast-operating Wi-Fi 6, but not a 120-Hz refresh rate or a variable refresh rate (VRR). However, it can switch to a low-latency gaming mode, disabling extra image-processing, which could cause slowdowns. For color gamut, the TK705STi doesn’t try to compete with the big guns. This model hits 98 percent of the older Rec. 709 standard, but there’s no data on the current BT.2020 scale. TK705STi 配备了两个 HDMI 接口、一个 USB 2.0 接口和一个 USB-C 接口，可用于连接 U 盘或硬盘。它有一个 3.5 毫米耳机插孔，但没有数字光纤接口或以太网接口。它支持高速 Wi-Fi 6，但不支持 120Hz 刷新率或可变刷新率 (VRR)。不过，它可以切换到低延迟游戏模式，禁用可能导致延迟的额外图像处理功能。在色域方面，TK705STi 并没有试图与顶级产品竞争。该型号达到了旧版 Rec. 709 标准的 98%，但没有关于当前 BT.2020 标准的数据。
Its remote is fine but not remarkable. All buttons are in logical spots, with an Input button that’s easy to find, a centered Home button you can locate even in the dark, and configuration buttons for picture and projector setup. 它的遥控器表现尚可，但并不出众。所有按钮布局合理，输入切换按钮很容易找到，居中的主页按钮即使在黑暗中也能轻松定位，此外还有用于图像和投影仪设置的配置按钮。
I like when projectors use Google TV, because I know the UI will be intuitive. While setting up the TK705STi was indeed easy, there’s a known Google TV glitch where the QR code doesn’t work, so I had to manually enter my Google login information. Aside from that hiccup, I was able to quickly load apps and was ready to roll in about 10 minutes. 我喜欢使用 Google TV 的投影仪，因为我知道其用户界面会很直观。虽然设置 TK705STi 的过程确实很简单，但 Google TV 存在一个已知的故障，即二维码无法使用，所以我不得不手动输入我的 Google 登录信息。除了这个小插曲，我很快就加载了应用程序，并在大约 10 分钟内准备就绪。
Loading Up the Games First
优先加载游戏
First and foremost, this projector is for a gamer, with its low-latency gaming mode (which the TK705STi calls ALLM for Auto Low Latency Mode). Whether I connected a gaming laptop or an Xbox Series X, I found the responsiveness to be stellar. 首先，这款投影仪是为游戏玩家设计的，它拥有低延迟游戏模式（TK705STi 将其称为 ALLM，即自动低延迟模式）。无论是连接游戏笔记本电脑还是 Xbox Series X，我都发现其响应速度非常出色。
I noticed the gaming performance boost while playing Forza Horizon 6 on Xbox and PC. My controller nudges felt immediate, and the entire game flowed with precision, as if I were on a gaming laptop screen instead. This was even true when I cranked up the graphics settings and played at a 10-foot size. 在 Xbox 和 PC 上玩《极限竞速：地平线 6》(Forza Horizon 6) 时，我注意到了游戏性能的提升。手柄的微操感觉非常即时，整个游戏过程精准流畅，仿佛我是在游戏笔记本电脑的屏幕上操作一样。即使我调高了图形设置并在 10 英尺的屏幕尺寸下进行游戏，情况依然如此。
In HDR gaming mode, colors were crisp and vivid (albeit at a lower contrast than on a higher-end cinema projector), making the cars and wintry mountains in Japan look more realistic. The built-in speakers were not that impressive, though, compared to a cinema model like the Hisense XR10. During some epic battles in the game Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II on Xbox, the rain sounded like sandpaper, and it was hard to hear the background music. I solved that problem by connecting to an AV receiver and using floor-standing speakers. 在 HDR 游戏模式下，色彩清晰生动（尽管对比度低于高端影院投影仪），使得日本的汽车和冬日山景看起来更加逼真。不过，与海信 XR10 等影院级型号相比，其内置扬声器的表现并不令人印象深刻。在 Xbox 游戏《塞娜的传说：地狱之刃 2》(Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II) 的一些史诗级战斗中，雨声听起来像砂纸摩擦，很难听清背景音乐。我通过连接 AV 接收器并使用落地式扬声器解决了这个问题。
I was sold on the gaming aspects of this Benq even after accepting that the picture quality would never match the high-end projectors I’ve tested, including the Xgimi Titan Noir Max. 即使承认其画质永远无法与我测试过的高端投影仪（包括极米 Titan Noir Max）相媲美，我依然被这款 BenQ 投影仪的游戏性能所折服。
Movies, Benchmarks, and Everything Else
电影、基准测试及其他
Most of the movies and TV shows I watched on the TK705STi didn’t look outstanding. Hoppers on Disney+ looked a bit flat, and the reds were slightly dull compared to the amazing color fidelity on a projector like the Leica Cine Play 1. Contrast was also… 我在 TK705STi 上观看的大多数电影和电视节目看起来并不出众。Disney+ 上的《Hoppers》看起来有点平淡，与 Leica Cine Play 1 等投影仪惊人的色彩保真度相比，红色略显暗淡。对比度也……