Really, some of those claims are rather outrageous. No hotspotting? I imagine they are pulling the extra light out of the nether regions of a parallel universe! There's no free lunch, they must be getting the light from somewhere.
I've seen a prototype at Infocomm and it is quite impressive, but not in the ways that Vutec says. There is a quite pronounced fall-off as you move off-axis, but the screen was a little small to evaluate hotspotting.
Jason said that they claimed the viewing angle is wide, it's not that wide. Perhaps wide for a 2.8 gain screen...
60:1 contrast ratio sounds like it was pulled out of someone's ... you know.
It was quite interesting and I look forward to a closer look, but it doesn't quite meet the early hype surrounding it on this forum.
I should also mention that as a rigid acrylic screen it is going to be quite expensive just for the materials. There's a reason why you rarely see rigid rear-projection in home theatre.
BTW, it was shown as a *front* projection screen and it was quite dark.
Regards,
Kam Fung
[This message has been edited by KFung (edited 08-17-2001).]