tab or non-tabbed tension screen?

[rolyasm]

Looking at a few motorized screens. Wondering if tension tabs do a lot for image and are really needed? Will it improve my picture? If I have ceiling fans in the room do I need the tension? Ceiling fans will be about 8-10 feet away. Is there any other bennies to having it tab-tensioned? thanks.
Also, as far as triggering the screen: sometimes I will want to listen to music and not have th screen come down. What other options do I have, besides the receiver, to trigger the screen? Thanks all.

 

[ivseenbetter]

You will want the tab tensioned screen to keep waves from developing over time in your screen. I don't think your ceiling fan will have any real affect on the screen but almost any screen will develop waves in the material from raising and lowering it if you don't have a tab tensioning system.

Almost every projector has a trigger that can be wired up to your screen. This way the screen will come on when the projector is turned on instead of using your receiver.

 

[BMXTRIX]

The waves develop due to environmental conditions, not from raising and lowering it. I had a screen I kept down for 2 years - it got waves in it.

Understand please, that IMO motorized screens without tensioning is one of the most wasteful things people can buy. You can purchase a manual pull down screen for hundreds of dollars less that will last just as long. Yet, people spend hundreds of dollars just so they don't have to get up off the couch and reach up to pull the screen down.

If the hundreds of dollars was for a screen that outperformed the manual screen, or would last far longer, then it would make sense, but non-tensioned motorized screens do not last longer, and are simply a complete waste of your cash.

Tensioned screens, on the other hand, should look just as good 10 years from now as the day you bought it.

Of course, the best way to go is with a permanently mounted, fixed on wall screen whenever possible.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

The waves develop due to environmental conditions, not from raising and lowering it. I had a screen I kept down for 2 years - it got waves in it.

Understand please, that IMO motorized screens without tensioning is one of the most wasteful things people can buy. You can purchase a manual pull down screen for hundreds of dollars less that will last just as long. Yet, people spend hundreds of dollars just so they don't have to get up off the couch and reach up to pull the screen down.

If the hundreds of dollars was for a screen that outperformed the manual screen, or would last far longer, then it would make sense, but non-tensioned motorized screens do not last longer, and are simply a complete waste of your cash.

Tensioned screens, on the other hand, should look just as good 10 years from now as the day you bought it.

Of course, the best way to go is with a permanently mounted, fixed on wall screen whenever possible.

I had a recent experience with an Optoma fixed-frame screen. It had these repeating even-spaced lines across the screen, which I attribute to the rolling-up process of the screen?

So better get a good quality fixed-frame screen on Carada, Stewart, Da-Lite, Draper ? Do you have any experience with the newer FocuPix screens?

http://www.htdepot.com/Focupix_TensionFlat_16_9_Electric_Screen_135_p/fxt169s-135.htm

http://www.htdepot.com/Focupix_Widescreen_Fixed_Frame_Screen_115_White_p/ff169lt-120mw.htm

 

[ivseenbetter]

The waves develop due to environmental conditions, not from raising and lowering it. I had a screen I kept down for 2 years - it got waves in it.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I just assumed it was from raising and lowering. I'm at work so I can't get the thanks function to work so please take my typed thanks.