Reduced power consumption by up to 50%, better image quality and longer usable lamp life
Sydney Australia, October2011 – As the first DLP® brand to incorporate Philips’ ImageCare technology into its projector lamp system, BenQ has gone a step further, developing its own SmartEco technology to perfect what DLP can do for energy savings.
SmartEco combines energy efficiency with optimized image contrast and a longer lamp life. This technological innovation enhances the imaging performance and reduces the operating and maintenance cost of projectors.
Unique to BenQ, SmartEco works by continually and automatically adjusting the lamp power based on the projected content. This is done without compromising on picture quality: the projector shows improved contrast while keeping its full brightness.
General manager for BenQ Australia, Chee. F. Chung said: “SmartEco is a big breakthrough in projector technology, the kind you’ll only see once in a number of years.
“Essentially, SmartEco is an internal software solution that maintains the ideal color spectrum and also provides an improved contrast ratio. This revolutionary technology produces no more light than absolutely necessary and always adapts to its own ideal,” she said.
When the projected content contains dark elements, the lamp dims accordingly for those scenes without any loss of visible brightness for the viewer. This benefits users in multiple ways – mainly prolonging lamp life by up to 80% and reduction of energy consumption by up to 50%.
“SmartEco is a ‘green’ innovation which will greatly benefit the education and corporate segment – it makes projector usage more environmentally-friendly, saving money and protecting the planet,” continued Chung.
“While ‘Smart Eco’ is the automatic default setting on the new range, it, and the ‘Eco Blank’ function are manually accessed via hotkeys on the remote controller. Eco Blank is a very useful function which blanks out the screen when not in use to conserve up to 70% power. This is very handy when the teacher or presenter wants to redirect focus away from the projected presentation for any period of time.
“When the projector detects ‘no signal’ it automatically switches back to using only 30% lamp power. All these features combine to create the world’s most energy efficient projectors,” said Chung.
The first release of Smart Eco inAustraliais now available in BenQ’s ultra short throw models, with the technology to apply to all new core ranging projector models released throughout 2012 as part of the company’s commitment to green initiatives and social responsibility.
The BenQ Projector models available with SmartEco technology are:
- MX850UST – Ultra Short-throw XGA available now
- MW851UST – Ultra Short-throw XGA available now
To be released:
- MS513 – Portable SVGA available in early 2012
- MX514 – Portable XGA available in early 2012
- MW516 – Portable Wide XGA available in early 2012
- MW712 – Network Wide XGA available in early 2012
- MX813ST – Short-throw XGA available in early 2012