Black Diamond from Screen Innovations?

Has anyone heard anything about the new Black Diamond screen from Screen Innovations being released at EHX? They are supposed to preview it and it will be available in two different gains and fixed or flexible. That's all I know about it so far. I've been eyeballing it and haven't seen any info anywhere.

Thanks!

Is anyone going to EHX that would be willing to stop by the booth and take a couple pictures of the Black diamond or get a few extra details?

Thanks y'all!

Appreciate the feed back! That sounds much more reasonable than a similar DNP model I looked at. The dealer in NYC was quoting several times that for a DNP. I am looking forward to hearing about this baby as the time draws near and hope that it can reasonably deliver on it's promises.

I remember that dnp was the supplier for a while, and I'm personally not sure if the new Black Diamond is the same as the SuperNova Flex or not. It would seem like it is not simply because the Flex has been available for a couple years now and it seems that SI keeps pushing the release date back on this. If they were simply distributing a product, or recasting it, you would think they would have released this long ago.

No, the Supernova is more of a silver... here

I'm not sure I'd go so far as one of these black screens looks "like a plasma" when off. I would assume that has a lot to do with how you frame it, but you can make your own call there. Here.
The 1st 2 pictures there are of the new black diamond.

I'm not sure if this is going to work as well as they claim it to, from everything I've read on the Mirage and the SuperNova they're just not up to par...they work great in the dark, and they work okay with some ambiant light, but I'm not expecting miracles out of this. Hopefully just an incremental improvement.

I'm still excited about it though, and looking forward to the release none-the-less. My hope is that this is a brand new material and not the recycled SuperNova as those screens have not been reviewing terribly well.

Agreed, by the time they finally get around to releasing it I'll probably just buy a house and build a dedicated theater instead. I seem to remember someone posting a while back that they had seen it in action and were very impressed by it. Maybe we'll be surprised.

Very nice video indeed!

Is it perfect in that it produces the same picture in light as in dark? No, but I don't expect it to either. It looks like it will give me a watchable picture when I want have a lamp on in the room.

One thing that I am very cautious about with this screen and this video is they have not shown the lighting in the room. From the video you can tell it is fairly bright (or the camera is adjusted to show that) in the room, but they are not showing the light source...can lights, lamps, torch lights etc. Now are they showing placement...this would go a long way towards demonstrating this screens capabilities. Again, with this type of technology I'm not expecting miracles but I do enjoy what I see so far!

Thanks for sharing the video...if only March would get here! (And I could find a SI dealer!!!) I wonder if AVS would consider carrying SI?

I seem to recall there being mention of a 2.0 gain and a lower one but don't remember what. It's possible I made that up as I can't find mention of it anywhere.

You make a valid point Noah, and another good mention that ALL screen shots should be taken with a grain of salt. I know from my experience as a photographer that it's very easy to make a dim room look brighter than it actually is. In fact one of the harder things to accurately photograph is a dark scene. It is very easy to compensate for the low light to make the scene look much brighter than it is.

I've read all of the reviews I could get my hands on of the DNP SuperNova and the original SI Visage screens. Neither of those truly impressed me. Sony's Dynaclear, it seems, has mainly flown under the radar of reviews so it has been hard to get a decent opinion of it. There is an AVS member who is using one as his primary screen and has weighed in considerably.

The more you read, and the longer you look, it all comes back to light control. If the manufacturers pushing Black Screen technology can give those people with out man-caves even a little help then I'll embrace their ideas with open arms.