[Blue Rain]

My ceiling is a pretty dark Brownish Goal but way more brown and looks like a warm brown.


My walls are tannish beige .


So is it worst to have lighter walls oppose to a lighter ceiling ?



Thanks

 

[BlazeMaster]

I'm sure you know that it's ideal to have both dark, but if I was to pick one out of the two in a non-dedicated room, then I rather have dark walls, and light ceiling as it's more aesthetically pleasing than the other way around. I think a lot of it will also depend on how close is the screen mounted near the ceiling, if it's mounted closer to the ceiling, then having a darker ceiling will probably yield a better picture and vice versa.

 

[DaGamePimp]

How about choice D... all of the above

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Both can create reflections back to your screen but there are far too many variables to know at what degree either will degrade your image (shape of the room, height of the ceiling, distance from screen to walls, type of screen, projector mounting method, light leakage from projector and on and on). Unless you are willing to basically have a bat cave there will always be some trade offs

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Jason

 

[Blue Rain]

Thanks for the replies guys.


D 130" W 113" H 64" viewable . Bottom of screen from the floor will be 25"

plus screen height of 64" = 89" out of 96" ceiling. Plus a few inches of the black metal casing and extra black pulldown in screen to cover the extra inches needed.



I think I'm OK. The projector will be close to 8 ft' ceiling and about 14 ft' throw

from the screen in a 19 ft' room. No wall (12ft') will be showing on the outside side areas of the screen area except for a 14 inches on each side and that will be covered with roll down black shades. Buying small shades and spray painting them black.


When projector not in use I will just snap roll them up and they will look like an extension on each side of the projector metal fixture on the ceiling.


Plus I have complete control of lighting.



So with the high contrast of the panny ae4000u I think it will do.


Tired of fussing and need to finalized all this.

 

[imjay]

I think having flat, non-reflective wall and ceiling surfaces is more important than color though, of course, darker is better.


If you don't have total light control in your viewing area a gray screen can be very effective with controling light reflecting around the room as in a completely dark room the only source of light is your projector and the biggest cause of reflected light is a white screen.


Anyway, that's what we learned - started with a bright white screen and were very surprised at the difference that a Da-lite gray screen made with regard to light reflected back into the room and our eyes.