VApex 100" Electric Projector Screen Review

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It's hard to get excited about an electric projector screen... until you find one that's priced ridiculously low and includes features that should have it costing twice as much as it does. Then you begin to wonder if you've stumbled onto something... something big. Visual Apex' new VApex screens are something big. They are specially-branded "in-house" screens that the company is now offering to its customers. After all, shouldn't a company that has provided excellent customer service and sales support for years know exactly what makes a good projector screen? We figured they did but wanted to install one and go through the process to see if the quality of workmanship and attention to detail lived up to our expectations. Read on and you'll see that this screen might just change the way you think about build quality, ease-of-installation, attention to detail and optional accessories.

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I'm going to say this because I think it must be said and the review did not say it:

In my ten years+ of experience in A/V there is not a single non-tensioned screen which I have seen which did NOT develop waves in the material within a few years of use.

If you get a non-tensioned screen do NOT spend the money to get a motor installed in it for a couple hundred bucks more. Instead, get a manual pull down screen and start saving up your money for a tab-tensioned motorized screen. You may miss out on a couple of years of cool factor, but you aren't flushing $200+ down the toilet when the screen develops waves in it and despite the fact that the motor works great, the image looks like garbage.

Visual Apex makes a very commendable tab-tensioned electric screen which is the way to go and well worth a look at.

As cheap as this may be, it's still a few hundred bucks more than anyone should be paying for a non-tensioned screen. The comparisons to other electric screens just show that there is a demand by people to throw their money away instead of doing things right.

$134 for the manual version of this style screen from Visual Apex (Elite Screen version)...
Elite M106UWH E24 Manual Series-Home Cinema Projection Screens for $134 from Visual Apex

Put that $200 towards this instead...
VApex VAPEX9106TN VApex Electric Tensioned Projection Screens for $799 from Visual Apex

and realize that there is a reason why there is almost a $500 difference between non-tensioned electric screens and tensioned electric screens. That is a huge jump in long term quality usage.

I've had my 106" Draper tab-tensioned screen now for about 6 years and it looks as good as the day I got it. Absolutely the only way to go.