Ajbolit said:
Hi, any recommendations for a screen? I can accomodate up to 120" diagonal in my basement. Any problems wiht "light splatter"? Should I get a "no gain" screen for that projector?
I recently viewed a Optoma HD72 DLP projector at a friend's house.
He has a fixed Stewart 120", 16x9 Firehawk screen and it simply looked stupendous!
We didn't notice light splattering, but did see the dreaded rainbow syndrome effect that occurred only once with a brand new 1080i HD transfer of The Last Samurai, which was playedback via a $500 HD-DVD Toshiba player.
He also has a 16 foot wide film screen (yep...he can do Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm movies projection via a Norelco Todd-AO AAII 35/70mm projector with a 1000 watt xenon lamp house--and so am I
) with a flat (no gain), white surface which we used to compare the Optoma's image side by side (the film screen is motorized, so it was a simple matter of dropping it down to a certain level for easy comparisons).
It seems that the gray screen material benefits video projection to a good degree, but a white screen with some gain (1.3 for example) will work fine too in my opinion.
I became quite impressed with that little single chip DLP bugger, and I am quite jaded when it comes to video projectors!
Still can't believe the level of performance derived from this projector at the asked price, yet I can't help to wonder what Optoma could do with a REAL 1080p DLP chip...so long as they keep the price of admission within beer budget levels...
-THTS