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Some time ago there was a thread where people posted photos of their systems and set ups.This was extremely helpful and showed some great ideas which I was quite happy to pinch.One of which was a screen which was used just for watching films and was quickly and easily placed in front of the tv which was used for everyday use. I made a screen out of hardboard screwed onto a wooden frame. This gives me a 60" picture which is pretty good, however I can`t help thinking it could be better. I have thought of painting it but don`t know what paint to use, I`ve also thought of taking a stanley knife to a normal screen and pasting it onto the hardboard. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
p.s. I`m hoping it will be ready by the 5th for the big match.

Interestingly enough, Mark is repainting his living room, and the first two coats were white matt paint.

We pulled his projector screen half down, and we couldn`t tell the difference between the white wall and his screen, despite a lot of trying. Both where as bright and reflective, and the colour difference was undetectable.

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You can use Dulux icestorm 6 which is a very light grey paint, this does give quite a good picture, it will also help slightly on the nlack levels.
You can also use Goo, which takes the screen into a different league, but then the prices are in a different league to Ice Storm 6.

Speaking of Projectors I always found this article quite interesting hehe

www.tomshardware.com/howto/20041113/index.html

I used Icestorm5 with a bit of white to take it half way between icestorm 5 and 6. Works a treat. Matt of course!!

Excuse my ignorance but what is Goo.Thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

I just use my living room wall which is Dulux white.

The projector is 8 feet away from the wall and projects a perfect 8 foot long by 5 foot 6 inches high picture.

So no need for a screen, but a warning....

I keep shouting to the kids not to touch that specific area of the wall with their grubby hands :/

One of my problems is that I made a glass and wood stand which holds on one side my
dvd player,under that is my video and under that is my home cinema amp. On the other side of my centre speaker is my digibox, under that is my cd player and under that is my hi-fi amp. On top of all that, on the uppermost shelf is my 32" Tosh.
So as you can see due to the position of my speakers and system set-up, I can`t use my wall. Hence my reason for looking for a screen which I can quickly and easily put into place to use with a projector.
I`d also appreciate any advice on the following, which I suppose could be a thread in its own right. All the cables for that lot drives my misses up the wall as she is the tidiest person on the planet and believe it or not she tries to dust my beloved spaghetti, naturally this is sacrilege to me and has been the source of much marital strife.

I think the general consensus above is that you can paint it any matt white you like, they are all pretty good. Though some people preferred a light grey as it gave them better blacks.

Personally I prefer a projector with better blacks. :)

Have you considered a pull down screen? You could mount it to the top shelf and pull it down from there perhaps?

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I liked the home-made screen that was hidden behind a "tapestry" & had a ceiling mounted drop down projector, but cant locate the thread\poster as it was nearly 2 years ago (Tried most of the keywords in the search as well).

Any ideas anyone?



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