{"slug": "benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room", "title": "BenQ 4100i Review: Bringing the Cinema to Your Living Room", "summary": "BenQ released the W4100i home theater projector, priced at $2,999, offering rich colors, excellent contrast, and filmmaker-friendly features like a dedicated filmmaker mode and 24P frame rate. It competes with the Leica Cine Play 1 and Epson Lifestudio Grand Plus, targeting movie enthusiasts seeking an easy-to-setup cinema experience at home.", "body_md": "For the Netflix crowd, setting up a movie theater in your house makes perfect sense. When a big release like *Apex* starring Charlize Theron or the fantastic sci-fi series *The Boroughs* comes out, you can dim the lights, start the popcorn machine, and sit back and watch. The BenQ W4100i is a great option for this setup, with rich colors and excellent contrast. Several features, including a phenomenal filmmaker mode and 24P frame rate mode, are fine-tuned to please die-hard movie fans. The fact that it’s easy to set up is an added bonus.\n\nThe W4100i has many excellent rivals, however. The movie-friendly [Leica Cine Play 1](https://www.wired.com/review/review-leica-cine-play-1/) costs almost exactly the same, and the $3,800 [Epson Lifestudio Grand Plus](https://www.wired.com/review/epson-lifestudio-grand-plus/) is no slouch in terms of brightness, clarity and AI enhancements. My goal was to see if the BenQ W4100i, priced at $2,999 (or $2,799 on sale), can come out on top.\n\n## Easy Setup\n\nThe BenQ W4100i’s all-black, rectangular design has the look of a [home theater projector](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-projectors/) from 15 years ago, but that’s not a ding. I prefer the aluminum-clad Leica Cine Play 1 design better, but the W4100i blends into the background nicely and is barely visible with the lights off.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room", "canonical_source": "https://www.wired.com/review/review-benq-w4100i-projector/", "published_at": "2026-06-24 10:31:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 10:42:54.480963+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products"], "entities": ["BenQ", "W4100i", "Leica Cine Play 1", "Epson Lifestudio Grand Plus", "Charlize Theron", "The Boroughs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/benq-4100i-review-bringing-the-cinema-to-your-living-room.jsonld"}}