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Product Review Home Theater Magazine Review - Osprey Tension Dual Series By Thomas Norton - October 2011 Home Theater Magazine Review Thomas Norton of Home Theater Magazine reviewed Elite’s Osprey Tension Dual. The article appeared in the October 2011 edition of Home Theater Magazine. The Osprey Tension Dual is a projection screen that operates two separate projection surfaces, a 16:9 (HDTV) and a 2.35:1 (Cinemascope) in tandem with anamorphic projectors. The ad really illustrated the positive attributes of the Osprey Tension Dual’s many positive aspects. These include the following • Innovative design is useful, versatile and aesthetically pleasing. • Functionality, product is reliable and performs well with its alignment. • Format/matting is appropriate to the anamorphic shift To read the full article, here is the website: http://www.hometheater.com/content/elite-screens-osprey-dte110c88h-e20-screen 137 Elite Osprey Tension Dual in Residential Media Room Courtesy of Andrew Robinson, Film maker/Consumer Electronics Editor. www.elitescreens.com/reviews
Product Review Widescreen Review - Lunette Series By Doug Blackburn - September 2011 For the last seven years, Elite Screens’ primary focus has been on home theatre screens with high-performanceto-cost ratios. Elite Screens’ secondary markets are government, house-of-worship, educational, and military. The Lunette screens combine Elite’s highperformance CineWhite screen material with curved extruded aluminum frames. The reviewed 106-inch diagonal Lunette 2.35:1 Lunette screen has an MSRP of $1,129 (frame model Curve106WH1). The 100-inch diagonal model (Curve100WH1) is currently the most popular Lunette screen size and has an MSRP of $1,029. There is also an acoustically transparent option offered at $1,299 MSRP for the same curved 106-inch diagonal size that was reviewed. The Lunette screens are currently Elite’s highest-performance screens, designed to compete with high-performance screens from other manufacturers, but at a lower cost. All Lunette screens have a curved frame. The largest 2.35:1 size is 158-inch diagonal, and the smallest available size is 85-inch diagonal. The same screen material is available with a flat frame in Elite’s ezFrame screen series. A 103-inch diagonal ezFrame (flat) version of the curved Lunette has an MSRP of $798 (a 103-inch curved Lunette model would have an approximate MSRP of $1,079). Curved screens are popular in home theatres using an anamorphic lens combined with a 2:35:1 or 2.40:1 aspect ratio screen. The curve of the screen reverses the inevitable small amount of pincushion distortion caused by the anamorphic lens. Curved screens can be used without an anamorphic lens to good effect, especially if the projector throw distance is long enough to avoid barrel distortion (the opposite of pincushion) that can be more obvious at short-ish throw distances. Alignment of the projector-to-screen will also affect the amount of geometric distortion. Minimizing distortion requires that the projector lens height remains within the height of the image area of the screen. The more above or below the top/bottom edges of the screen, the more geometric distortion will be introduced. A ceiling mount that puts the projector lens two feet above the top edge of the screen would have quite a bit more geometric distortion than if the ceiling mount was low enough to place the projector lens at the same height as the top edge of the screen. There are typically four reasons a curved screen might be chosen over a flat screen. The previously mentioned anamorphic lens combined with a 2.35:1 screen is one reason. The second reason is that a curved screen may produce images that are slightly sharper than a flat screen at the far left and far right sides of the screen. However, viewers tend to look directly at the central one-third of the screen most of the time, with the outside edges of the screen taking on a less critical “peripheral vision” role that heightens immersion. Viewers rarely look directly at the left and right one-third of the screen during movies. That means the slight advantage in sharpness at the outside edges of images may not be obvious while viewing movies. This sharper-at-the-outside-edges factor may not be true for every projector/lens combination or every system/setup. If the projection lens is optimized for sharpness on a flat surface or if the throw distance is long, there may be no sharpness advantage for a curved screen. The third reason people use curved screens is simply that a curved screen has a “cool factor” that you don’t get with a flat screen. The fourth potential benefit of curved screens is that more light is reflected towards the viewers, with less light reflecting to the sides and bouncing off of walls, leading to light-contaminated black levels. This is a more significant factor when the sidewalls are somewhat close to the screen and when the walls are painted something other than black or very dark neutral gray. Color on the walls will create colored reflected light that can contaminate images. When it’s not possible to make the room completely black or very dark gray, or a very dark shade of some color (less ideal, but better than a medium-to-light shade of any color), a curved screen can help reduce unwanted side effects from the non-dark walls. Setup The Lunette screen arrived nicely packed. As with any screen, you need quite a large clear floor-space to assemble the screen. The frame rails went together easily. Each frame corner has a beefy angle bracket that holds the frame rails together. Some screens I’ve assembled have had to be “tweaked” to remove some trapezoidal shape after initially fitting the four frame rails, but the Lunette frame came out “square” (perfectly rectangular in this case) without having to be tweaked. You always want to double-check any screen frame after assembly. This is easily done by measuring www.elitescreens.com/reviews 138
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