Why buy a M2500 Screen?  

I think for many, the increased amount of brightness, contrast and vivid colors are a great reason for choosing a M2500.

The M2500 will also allow you to decrease your projector's brightness settings, which is a great way to add more years usage to any CRT projector.



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DMan
The Academy Home Theater

Let us not forget it does not have any "Spray On" reflective that gives you that "annoying sparkly quality".

THe material itself has the gain to it and throws a wonderful picture back at you.

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David Bott
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I have the Da-Lite 1.3 gain screen, and the sparklies are driving me bats.

Deniz Mutlu has kindly offered to let me come over to his place and check out his new Draper 2500 with the Barco 1208. I just may be making the switch after the first of the year...

At unoptimal viewing positions, the M1300 is much better - the M2500 can become slightly more dim at very-off-axis viewing positions.

The ideal viewing situation for an M2500 is when you're sitting at opposite angles with the projector and you're sitting center - like when the projector is above your head and you're sitting underneath. The M1300 is also more suitble than the M2500 if you are floor-mounting your projector.

The M2500 allows me to double my screen surface area while reducing contrast from 70% to 60% at the same time. It's also one of the only few easy ways to get a reasonably good looking picture if your home setting requires an "insane" size such as 10 feet wide or even more, as long as you're able to put seating at the ideal viewing position.

As a very rough rule of thumb, you can drive an M2500 screen that's 50% wider than a 1.0 gain screen, and still get roughly the same brightness per square feet! (Multiply ISF recommended dimensions by 1.5 and you know what I mean). Especially when your home theater setting requires you to exceed ISF recommendations - the M2500 is the big old favourite for this daring feat around here.

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Thanks,
Mark Rejhon
www.marky.com

[This message has been edited by Mark Rejhon (edited November 12, 1999).]

Hi Mark, Given your setting of the projector mounted above me and sitting centered below in the sweet spot...

Would the persons just to my left and to my right on the couch (we're all 14 feet from the screen) also have an optimal view of the M2500 screen, one that is 52 x 92? Or would these others begin to see a dimmer picture on the sides of the screen?

The picture to the sides is actually pretty acceptable - just don't sit TOO far to the sides. A 3 person couch facing the 16:9 screen for a viewing distance about 1.5 to 2.0 times screen width, will still be great for the persons sitting at the ends of the couch. While sitting at the edge of the couch, the videophile will notice a slight difference in brightness between the left/right ends of the screen mainly during bright or white scenes, while most average users (like, maybe your loved one and your kids?) won't even notice a thing. Just put the videophile in the center http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Thanks,
Mark Rejhon
www.marky.com

[This message has been edited by Mark Rejhon (edited November 12, 1999).]