Tab tensioned retractable screens use tabs on their corners to provide a more consistent but less flexible screen surface. The distance at which it is viewed is also generally greater than the distance from an indoor screen.

Sapphire's matte white fabric is composed of triple ply fibreglass laminate which helps prevent wrinkles and waves. For this guide, we chose to focus on 100-inch-diagonal, 16:9-shaped screens that are close to the standard 1. You probably won’t be caught cursing and sweating heavily while building it (something that cannot be said about every screen project).Sapphire's Large format projection screens is perfect for large home cinema applications and entertainment venues. Your access to this site was blocked by Wordfence, a security provider, who protects sites from malicious activity. In comparison, the Elite Screens Sable Frame 2 costs more for the same size and offers similar performance, but Chris ended up with bruised thumbs after spending almost three times as long to build it. The channel fix brackets are designed for a one man installation and can be situated anywhere along the profile of the casing.

If you ask a home theater expert or aficionado what to choose, more often than not, they’ll recommend something that costs more than the projector itself.Registered Office: 4th - 6th floor Wellington Buildings, 2-4 Wellington Street, Belfast, BT1 6HT (Northern Ireland - company number NI032565). For example, if you are mainly using your manual pull-down projector screen for a home cinema experience, most home cinema projectors will be Full HD (1080p) as this is the standard format of modern TV sets, SKY, blueray etc. The link above to new screen technologies sheds a lot of light on this (pun definitely intended), but just remember that screen material has the potential to completely change image properties, so choose carefully.

You can certainly go larger, but the image gets dimmer, by an amount equal to the increase in screen area.A retractable (aka pull-down) screen is a good choice if you’d rather not have a large, white screen hogging space on your wall when you aren’t watching anything—perhaps because you use the projector only on occasion, or you use it in an everyday-living space where the decor matters. This type of screen has a system behind it to ensure that the surface is perfectly tight and flat when pulled out, while the whole tensioning system also moves out of the way when the screen is rolled in.