Presuming Ed
Prominent Member
Hi,
I bought a projector for my living room a year or so ago and it's pretty much all I use now.
It's an Optoma UHD300x, at around 3m from the wall / screen giving me around a 114 inch image on full zoom. It's not really much good in any kind of light so I darken the room when I want to watch it.
There are all kinds of sources going through the projector - 4k blurays, 4k UHD streaming, Sky 4k as well as older Blurays and HD, even SD stuff occasionally.
I'm currently using a manual pulldown projector screen that I bought off Amazon for about £80 and, to be honest, it's hard to tell the difference between that and the white wall it projected onto before I had the screen. Except there's a blob of light on the screen where the light of the projector lamp reflects on the screen and it can be offputting in some scenes.
So I'm thinking of replacing the screen with a fixed frame one, as the wall is dedicated to the screen anyway, so it seems to me that fixed frame is the most cost effective way to get a decent screen up there.
I've had a good look around - the usual, cost vs quality etc and I've come up with this Sapphire one. Can anyone advise me on whether it would be a noticeable improvement on the current screen and, also, whether it's likely that it won't reflect that white blob of light that the current one does? (I realise there are probably no guarantees there)
Edit - should add, I guess, that the projector is ceiling mounted.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I bought a projector for my living room a year or so ago and it's pretty much all I use now.
It's an Optoma UHD300x, at around 3m from the wall / screen giving me around a 114 inch image on full zoom. It's not really much good in any kind of light so I darken the room when I want to watch it.
There are all kinds of sources going through the projector - 4k blurays, 4k UHD streaming, Sky 4k as well as older Blurays and HD, even SD stuff occasionally.
I'm currently using a manual pulldown projector screen that I bought off Amazon for about £80 and, to be honest, it's hard to tell the difference between that and the white wall it projected onto before I had the screen. Except there's a blob of light on the screen where the light of the projector lamp reflects on the screen and it can be offputting in some scenes.
So I'm thinking of replacing the screen with a fixed frame one, as the wall is dedicated to the screen anyway, so it seems to me that fixed frame is the most cost effective way to get a decent screen up there.
I've had a good look around - the usual, cost vs quality etc and I've come up with this Sapphire one. Can anyone advise me on whether it would be a noticeable improvement on the current screen and, also, whether it's likely that it won't reflect that white blob of light that the current one does? (I realise there are probably no guarantees there)
Edit - should add, I guess, that the projector is ceiling mounted.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
SFSC266-Sapphire Fixed Frame Front Projection Screen Viewing
www.sapphireav.com
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