[simpits-tech] Screen material

[Alan D. Mazurka]

hi, Jim...

do you use the screen for front or rear projection? if rear, is there a hot 
spot?? i'm almost betting that one can seriously eliminate the hot spot of 
you get the projector sufficiently off-axis.

  - adm -

At 01:13 PM 3/5/04 -0700, you wrote:
>Guys,
>Another good choice for a projector screen is a white plastic sheet that 
>you can buy at Home Depot.   I don't remember the name of it now.  Its 
>actually used for waterproofing walls and comes in something like 4x8 feet 
>sheets.  Its about 18 to 20 dollars.   It has a gain of about 1 so it is 
>basically the same thing as buying a 1 gain screen.   It works so well 
>that many people were using it for home theaters that the company that 
>makes those sheets made sheets that were bigger exclusively for HT 
>users.   I made a wood frame for the one I made and painted it flat 
>black.   It works really well.   I compared it to about 12 real screen 
>material samples I have and you couldn't tell the difference.  Almost all 
>1 gain screens perform the same.  You really don't see differences until 
>you get into the higher gains.
>Jim
>
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Alan D. 
Mazurka 
adm.design at verizon.net
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