I knew that some people wouldn't agree with this, but it comes from 4 years as a projector owner - using it in multiple environments. In the early days my original 720P projector I would move between two houses, one with a proper screen and the other with just a wall. The advantages of the wall is a) when you use the right paint it actually is bright enough, b) walls are larger than screens - to get a screen the size of my wall would mean having a totally custom screen made ($$$), c) walls don't have aspect ratio limitations. In my house I did have a custom screen made. It was a cinematic 2.35:1 and was 11 feet wide. But then when I watched something 16:9 or 4:3 I had to adjust the zoom and the image was smaller.
My friends who have projectors with screens come over and are bummed that their picture is so small compared to mine.
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michael smith @ Dec 29th 2008 1:41PM
I knew that some people wouldn't agree with this, but it comes from 4 years as a projector owner - using it in multiple environments. In the early days my original 720P projector I would move between two houses, one with a proper screen and the other with just a wall. The advantages of the wall is a) when you use the right paint it actually is bright enough, b) walls are larger than screens - to get a screen the size of my wall would mean having a totally custom screen made ($$$), c) walls don't have aspect ratio limitations. In my house I did have a custom screen made. It was a cinematic 2.35:1 and was 11 feet wide. But then when I watched something 16:9 or 4:3 I had to adjust the zoom and the image was smaller.
My friends who have projectors with screens come over and are bummed that their picture is so small compared to mine.