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dturco · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject: Elite screen ordered

I am moving forward& have order screen with extra 24" drop for ceiling mount.

Marquee 8500 is also on It's way.

http://www.htmarket.com/hocisemaschd.html

In case any one cares/gives a sh*t. Laughing

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

cool that be a nice screen for my work shop for testing out the PJ's and Boards I work on ! for 100 bucks shipped about not bad!

Athanasios

dturco · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

I hope its not WAVY when pulled down. I actually ordered the 100" with 24" drop so it was$ 232.15 shipping included. Smile

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

All pulldowns have some form of wave in them, some worse than others. Usually you can live with it though.

dturco · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

I figured as much. You have to start somewhere and the price is fair enough.

schmoe · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 374 Location: Seattle, WA

How well does tab tensioning help to prevent waves? I've been researching screens and tab-tensioning adds about $500 to the price tag. Is it worth it?

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:23 am Post subject:

I don't know about the tab tension screens, but I just hung my elite screen. It took 15 minutes 2 plant hanger type
J hooks slightly modified and 3/16th toggle bolts and done. It looks great.

And for the best part my wife helped Shocked

If only i had a projector Laughing

Zubinell · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 39

I did a set up using a tab tensioned DaLite Advantage screen

http://www.dalite.com/products/product.php?cID=32&pID=41

What a beautiful thing but expensive ..Much more then a $500 upcharge. The thing cost $2300 wholesale and weighed a TON. It took 4 men and 5 ladders to install it. The tab tensioning made for a perfectly flat screen. In years gone by I owned a Stewart tab tensioned screen and it was very flat as well. It was smaller then I wanted and I sold it. I now consider it a mistake. It will cost much more to replace it. The current budget has me using a drop down screen with out tensioning and the omnipresent wave which I can never get used to and ALWAYS notice. Even the slightest wave seems much more noticeable when there is a static display of a single color in the image. Sometimes there is a solid coclr background on some commercials or such and it becomes very noticeable. If there is a nice tab 96" - 100" 4X3 screen available in the NYC/Phila area .. LET ME KNOW!

SYC · Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 269

If it costs $500 to upgrade tab-tensioned, just do it. A tab-tensioned screen is very flat, not like a manual pull-down type, so it worth the money.

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

dturco · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:33 am Post subject: Re: Elite screen ordered

Bucketfoot · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 698 Location: Centennial, CO