Hi All,
Thanks for all the great info regarding screens. I have just purchased an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 and I'm looking for some setup and screen advice. We're planning to ceiling mount the projector in our living room which is 15 ft wide and 19 feet long. The walls of the room are white, the floors are shiny light wood, and we have one 15 foot wall of full of huge windows one 19 foot wall with two more large windows. We're going to put up black out drapes but I'm sure there will be some light bleed and that the room will only be truly dark at night, which is ok for us.
We think the best plan is to install a manual pull down screen in front of the 15 foot wall of windows which will be covered by drapes, so we can have a sunny room during the day and pull the screen down for movies. We ordered a Optoma Panoview Greywolf II 92-Inch diagonal but we're going to return it because we've been projecting on our 15 rear white wall in the meantime and getting a huge 135 inch width picture and now the screen seems to small and learned the optoma screen has sparkle problems and is incompatible with a ceiling mount projector.
We would so appreciate if anyone has any advice on what would be the best screen and setup for bright crisp picture quality. Should we get a grey screen or white? Should it be high contrast? What is the max size screen you would recommend? We're looking to spend less than $400 on the screen. Also how many feet should the projector be placed from the screen for optimal brightness and a big image? Is it important to get a black case for the project or is white ok (since our walls are white)? Do we need a CSR screnn? Also we're mainly going to use the screen for HDTV and movies so ideally we'd like a 16:9 screen with blacked out edges? Is there some screen out there for us that anyone can recommend?
Thanks so much!
Thanks for all the great info regarding screens. I have just purchased an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 and I'm looking for some setup and screen advice. We're planning to ceiling mount the projector in our living room which is 15 ft wide and 19 feet long. The walls of the room are white, the floors are shiny light wood, and we have one 15 foot wall of full of huge windows one 19 foot wall with two more large windows. We're going to put up black out drapes but I'm sure there will be some light bleed and that the room will only be truly dark at night, which is ok for us.
We think the best plan is to install a manual pull down screen in front of the 15 foot wall of windows which will be covered by drapes, so we can have a sunny room during the day and pull the screen down for movies. We ordered a Optoma Panoview Greywolf II 92-Inch diagonal but we're going to return it because we've been projecting on our 15 rear white wall in the meantime and getting a huge 135 inch width picture and now the screen seems to small and learned the optoma screen has sparkle problems and is incompatible with a ceiling mount projector.
We would so appreciate if anyone has any advice on what would be the best screen and setup for bright crisp picture quality. Should we get a grey screen or white? Should it be high contrast? What is the max size screen you would recommend? We're looking to spend less than $400 on the screen. Also how many feet should the projector be placed from the screen for optimal brightness and a big image? Is it important to get a black case for the project or is white ok (since our walls are white)? Do we need a CSR screnn? Also we're mainly going to use the screen for HDTV and movies so ideally we'd like a 16:9 screen with blacked out edges? Is there some screen out there for us that anyone can recommend?
Thanks so much!
