320" Inflatable Screen

Thanks for all of the info I have gethered from here over the last 6 months. As soon as I started coming in with different options for out group to purchase. They immediately went, how much more is the next option???

So we ended up with a 25'x15' screen, 3500 lumen projector and an audio system I am very proud of!! On test night, I through in a Moto GP movie and I swear, I could have been at Laguna Seca!


We played North by Northwest last night and had about 150 people. I had a man come up to me after the movie and say "I just want to thank you for putting this on." I said, "No problem, glad you enjoyed yourself." Then he replied, "No thank you, this is really great."



The best part is the kid who showed up a with a lazy boy chair and plopped it down.

It is for a City.

Estimate, about $7500 invested. Own everything it takes to run it though.(Sound, Projection, Screen) Darn sound guys wanted about $500 a shot. 10 movies during the summer, it was easy to see why we should just buy it ourselves. (Seriously sound guys, the movie is set it and forget it, it is already mastered!)

My CIty is really promoting their Downtown as the ReDev Agency just finished putting tons of money into it. Wed Night is Movie Night. Thurs is Dancing with a Dance instructor. Friday is Concert Night. We just had the Unathorized Rolling Stones play, creepy how much they look and can act like them. But a great show!

The screen isn't very expensive. (In relation to what the companies at our annual Conference run them for)

(My Camera isn't that great, so I needed to brighten the photo up after taking it)

As far as size, the screen rolls up into a bag about 3ft in diameter and 3.5 ft tall. But in relaity, there is no way we can get it back in there so it is about 3' diamter and 5' tall. It weighs a lot, so I use a dolly with a rope around it to move it. Luckily I have taken over most of the storage area underneath the stairs it is sitting on.


For a projector I am using the Infocus IN42. 3500 lumens so I can start showing pictures at 8:30 right now. Usually start the movie at 8:45. We have a preview about our new downtown that we show before hand. I bought a pelican case to move it with.

For DVD, I am using an OPPO 981. Upconverts to 1080i, comes highly rated. I figure garbage in, garbage out so the better picture I can send to the projector the better it will be at 320 inches.

Sound system I have 3 amps. All crown amps. Right now, I have two that run 4 speakers in a left right setup. The last runs the sub amp. The OPPO converts 5.1 to seperate outputs, so on the mixer I have it seperated into 1,2 and the sub on 3 leaving output 4 still open.

I was going for a surrround sound system, but it would require another amp and another mixer or just 1 different mixer to keep the signals seperate. Center, FL FR, RR RL, Sub. After the first two showings my Superintendent wanted to know exactly how much more expensive it would be. (Come on, how cool would surround sound be!!)

Our sound system is really powerful, you could probably go for a smaller system and save money but we wanted some versatility out of it so this is what we went with.

We are showing Harry Potter this Wednesday which coincides with the release of the new one.