I was with Anthony Grimani of PMI at CEDIA Expo when he was advising another person on this issue. He is a former staff member and instructor for THX. Tony has a substantial background and experience in both high performance audio and video. His favorite at present, with what he considers the least amount of compromises to image and sound performance, is the woven screen from Screen Research.
Residential sized AT screens seriously compromise 1080P resolution. It may very well be appropriate to recommend a 720P 3-chip DLP light cannon for such an application. They are really lower cost these days.
Joe Kane reported a Digital Cinema trial in which a critical film industry professional audience could not tell the difference between a 4K and 2K image projected on a 50′ perfed screen. The same audience was also amazed at how much brightness was lost between a 2K image projected on a perfed screen vs. non-perfed.
Best regards and beautiful pictures,
Alan Brown, President
CinemaQuest, Inc.
A Lion AV Consultants Affiliate
“Advancing the art and science of electronic imaging”
