Home Cinema Screen with Long Drop

[anonymous-user]

I have a 2.9m ceiling in m living room. My screen (ideally an 8ft screen) needs to be installed pretty much at this height so that I can hide the casing in some boxing around the top of the fireplace wall.

If I am right, I really need the bottom of the screen to be between 2-3ft from the ground to provide a comfortable viewing angle. This means I need a a screen with a very large drop and a very large black area above the screen.

So far all I can see that meets the bill is the EEW24W from these guys which has a 1020mm black area and will therefore come to just over 2ft from the floor: http://www.metroplan.co.uk/data_sheets/Eyeline%20E...

So the question - are these screens any good or are there better alternatives that will give me what I need? I've looked through all the information online for Grandview and Draper Euroscreen and nothing seems to fit the bill.

Thanks

[megaphone]

Da-lite are a US company who do loads of different screens, can be expensive but are good. Too many for me to go through however I'm sure I've seen what you want in their range. http://www.da-lite.com/products/

Or you could go for a 4/3 screen and just use the bottom 16/9 area, it won't be black above but would work.

[anonymous-user]

megaphone said:

Da-lite are a US company who do loads of different screens, can be expensive but are good. Too many for me to go through however I'm sure I've seen what you want in their range. http://www.da-lite.com/products/

Or you could go for a 4/3 screen and just use the bottom 16/9 area, it won't be black above but would work.

Thanks for that!

Interesting idea about the 4:3 - something to think about I guess.

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Did not know that, Cheers!

[varsas]

I'm looking into getting a projector and have the same issue you do. Does everyone else sit really far away from their screen, or live in a hobbit house or what?

[OldSkoolRS]

I sit about 4 metres back from a 112" wide 2.35:1 screen. It's a little higher than I'd ideally like since my eyes are about level with 1/4 of the way up, but my speakers are below so there is a limit as to how low it can go (plus there is a risk of shadows from other furniture getting in the way). The room is just under 8' high, minus about 6" for the depth of the case mounted to plywood pads on the ceiling (inside a pelmet to hide it), plus 1' or so for the drop. The visible screen height is about 48" so this puts the bottom of the screen about 2' 6" up from the floor.

As said above though most of the decent makes will do a custom drop, or aspect ratios probably for very little extra cost: My Beamax 2.35:1 aspect screen, with 30cm drop was no extra above the cost of the same width 16:9 version for example (though it was about £1,500 rrp at the time). I paid extra for a tab tensioned screen since un-tensioned screens WILL wrinkle and/or curl over time and mine is dead flat after 6+ years.

Edited by OldSkoolRS on Sunday 2nd February 10:54