Essential Install | Projectors And Screens
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Panamorph lenses
available from
Habitech deliver the
director’s vision direct
into the home
Also available from Invision
is Screen Innovations (SI),
perhaps best known for its
Black Diamond, ambient light
rejecting tech promoting the
ability to offer cinema is a
wider range of conditions and
rooms. Key products include
the 7 Series Zero Edge in Black
Diamond, which combines
another key technology from the
company with the Black Diamond
material. Available in custom screen sizes
and confi gurations up to 150in, the set up is
designed to offer a very price competitive solution
when compared to super larger TVs. SI also offers Slate, a
lower cost alternative to Black Diamond which can deliver
a 200in screen in standard sizes, larger on request.
More recently the company has announced
acoustically transparent versions of its Slate and Pure
screen platforms. “We created Slate AT and Pure AT to
give our customers the best of both worlds; the best
picture and the best sound,” says Ryan Gustafson,
CEO of SI. “Pure, and Slate have solved the problem of
image quality with the sharpest image reproduction in
the market by managing the texture pattern down to
nine times fi ner than standard white or grey materials,
maintaining image uniformity. Merging Slate and Pure
with our acoustic perforation technology has truly created
the best of both worlds, picture and sound.”
Habitech is another distributor which has seen the
opportunity in the home cinema market increase. As
well as also offering access to the DLA-Z1 from JVC, The
company partners with Projecta HD Progressive Screens
to deliver a platform worthy of the JVC’s abilities.
In order to accurately refl ect the smaller 4K pixels,
screens n eed to be microscopically uniform. Habitech
says Fibreglass, woven fabric and conventional vinyl
surfaces are too ‘bobbly’ for the job, whereas Projecta’s
HD Progressive vinyl screen surface is designed to be
consistently more even, presenting each incoming pixel
with its own mirror-fl at launch-pad meaning each pixel
is resolved back undistorted. Multiply the result by eight
million (8,847,360 to be exact) and viewers get 4K in full
effect. Habitech is also keen to ensure widescreen is not
forgotten, with around 70% of major motion pictures
produced in a format about 35% wider than standard
16:9. To cope with the aspect ratio of about 2.30:1 and
higher and avoid the dreaded black-lines some systems
use to cope, Panamorph lenses are on hand to help.
With a series of UltraWide lens options for Epson, JVC,
Sim2 and Sony projectors, Panamorph can remove the
black bars from UltraWide screens, reactivating wasted
pixels to realise the full resolution of 1080 or 4K projectors
4K-enhanced home cinema
1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
Fully motorised optics
Wide lens shift
and display UltraWide movies
in their original format. Worth
noting is that most standard
16:9 screens wider than
three metres cannot easily
be installed in UK homes due
to ceiling height restrictions.
Quite apart from giving home
cinema enthusiasts the real
deal when it comes to aspect
ratio, installers can choose
UltraWide screens to overcome
this physical shortcoming. In
these situations, Panamorph
lenses are key.
Shannon Townley, CEO
and president of Stewart Filmscreen
explains: “As our industry goes into a dynamic, high-
resolution, high-performance phase it’s exciting to see
technology evolving to meet demand and to meet future
needs. Within the AV integration community, commercial
and residential boundaries are increasingly converged,
which is creating incredible opportunities for integrators
to deliver an exceptional entertainment or viewing
experience. Stewart Filmscreen has helped deliver those
experiences day in, day out, for 70 years and we take
great pride in working closely with our partners to help
them exceed their client’s expectations while delivering
the seemingly impossible.
“We urge our partners to see the future and be the
future; deliver the exceptional experience your clients
deserve. As we say at Stewart Filmscreen, our products
enable our customers to deliver unrivalled image fi delity
that makes memorable, exceptional experiences possible
for any application imaginable.”
On the technical front, the company has developed
Phantom HALR, a high ambient light rejecting projection
screen material that delivers image fi delity and uniformity,
designed to resolve the dilemma of where a system can
be placed and still deliver the performance needed.
Screens made of this material, however are not just about
rejecting light, they can be created in sizes up to 40 feet
tall and 90 feet (12.1-meters by 27.4-meters) wide without
a seam, something the maker says is unique. Phantom
can also be perforated for acoustic transparency, which
includes Stewart Filmscreen’s proprietary Cinemaperf or
exclusive Microperf X2 THX Ultra technology.
Shannon adds that as 3D surround sound systems
become more prevalent, choosing a screen with high-
quality, effective perforation patterns becomes even
more important.
Lots of technical movement at the moment means
companies need to move fast to take advantage,
Shannon argues: “REC 2020 Color Space and High
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