Our native mobile app has a new name: Fora Communities. Learn more.

Best Pull-Down Projector

2078 Views 7 Replies 7 Participants Last post by DavidinGA, Oct 11, 2019

Mitchie23

Discussion Starter · Oct 11, 2019

Recently fixing my house and I desperately want to get rid of my fixed projector screen. I would like a pull-down projector that can be stored away easily. Looking at Fezibo, Gotobuy, and Celexon. Has anyone had any feedback on these?

Save

1 - 8 of 8 Posts

rekbones

· #2 · Oct 11, 2019

You should post in the dedicated "screen" section.

Save

johng

· #3 · Oct 11, 2019

Mitchie23 said:
Recently fixing my house and I desperately want to get rid of my fixed projector screen. I would like a pull-down projector that can be stored away easily. Looking at Fezibo, Gotobuy, and Celexon. Has anyone had any feedback on these?

Never heard of any of these brands. If you are going to get a pull-down screen, make sure it is "tab tensioned", otherwise your screen will develop wrinkles over time. As suggested, look at the Screens section of the forum.

Save

Reactions: 1

AV_Integrated

· #4 · Oct 11, 2019

I'm not sure what you have now, but it's likely better than the bottom of the line manual garbage you are looking at.

Manual screens are fine if you absolutely have zero budget and don't care about waves in the screen surface, but the absolute best looking image you can get comes from the fixed frame screen. Typically, a fixed frame screen starts at a couple hundred bucks, then can go to over $1,000. Manual screens are just like electric screens that are cheap, and the lack of a tensioning system, keeping the sides tight, means that waves develop in the material.

So, you really want a motorized tab-tensioned screen, which is roughly $1,000+ more than what you are looking at. I'm guessing that may be well outside of your budget.

No, you should not get any of those screens. You should not want a retractable screen if you want the best possible image. If you don't care about image quality, then buy any of them. They are all entry level and will develop waves quickly enough.

See less See more

Save

Reactions: 1

DavidinGA

· #5 · Oct 11, 2019

AV_Integrated said:
I'm not sure what you have now, but it's likely better than the bottom of the line manual garbage you are looking at.

Manual screens are fine if you absolutely have zero budget and don't care about waves in the screen surface, but the absolute best looking image you can get comes from the fixed frame screen. Typically, a fixed frame screen starts at a couple hundred bucks, then can go to over $1,000. Manual screens are just like electric screens that are cheap, and the lack of a tensioning system, keeping the sides tight, means that waves develop in the material.

So, you really want a motorized tab-tensioned screen, which is roughly $1,000+ more than what you are looking at. I'm guessing that may be well outside of your budget.

No, you should not get any of those screens. You should not want a retractable screen if you want the best possible image. If you don't care about image quality, then buy any of them. They are all entry level and will develop waves quickly enough.

Aren't some of the tab-tensioned screens hit or miss on developing waves/wrinkles too?

Save

Craig Peer

· #6 · Oct 11, 2019

DavidinGA said:
Aren't some of the tab-tensioned screens hit or miss on developing waves/wrinkles too?

Not good ones. For a decent manual pull down screen, at least look at Da Lite. They make pretty good screens.

Save

SarahR

· #7 · Oct 11, 2019

can anyone point me to a good site that self decent priced pull down projectors

Save

DavidinGA

· #8 · Oct 11, 2019

SarahR said:
can anyone point me to a good site that self decent priced pull down projectors

I use an Elite manual pull-down and have been happy with it. It's actually the 2nd one I've owned now and both worked great. I'm sure their are different levels of quality available out there, but I've been perfectly satisfied with mine.

I got mine off Amazon.

I got this black 150" one...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BFW6RO/ref=cm_sw_r_fm_apa_i_2.oODbNFS2GVX

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Save

1 - 8 of 8 Posts

This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.

Top Contributors this Month