European Custom Installer

System Integration for the Connected Home

Projection and Screens

Da-Lite Adds Parallax 2.3

  • PDF

The Da-Lite ambient light rejecting (ALR) screen line gets an addition-- Parallax 2.3, a screen the company says has a very gradual brightness drop-off, ensuring image quality is maintained even when viewed from the side.

Parallax 2.3Designed for both pro AV and home theatre applications, the Parallax 2.3 consists of multiple micro-layers to achieve 96% ambient light blocking properties, together with a viewing cone of 46-degrees. The result is a bright, colourful image without glare, regardless of how much light is in the room.

Read more...

CEDIA Launch for Silverstar PanoFlexx

  • PDF

Vutec Corporation releases the Silverstar PanoFlexx-- a flexible screen featuring what the company calls Accurate Colour Panoptics (ACP) designed to increase colorimetry, while producing the same quality and performance of the Silverstar fixed wall screen.

Panoflexx SilvestarAfter 4 years of research and development, we are pleased to be able to release to the industry a Silverstar product that has a lot of versatile features, including that it is more economical to pack and ship," the company says says. "We are also pleased that the Silverstar ACP easily migrated from a rigid screen to the flexible fabric of the PanoFlexx.  In our testing of this next generation screen, we took several ALR samples and held them up against the PanoFlexx, the results spoke for themselves-- true color and amazing image quality that a typical ALR screen cannot produce.”

Read more...

SI Adds Screen for Tall Ceilings

  • PDF

The Screen Innovations (SI) Zero-G offers an "extended maximum drop" to help installers specify a motorised screen in the case of an extremely tall ceiling making it all but impossible.

SI Zero GZero-G has no black mask above the viewing surface. Instead, the screen is housed inside a two-piece tube suspended from Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMwPE) cables. It deploys at a pre-set location and unrolls itself, displaying the viewing surface with up to 5m of drop.

Read more...

Seymour Screen Intros Tunable Backlighting Kit

  • PDF

Seymour Screen Excellence brings to market the first tunable white bias lighting kit in the CEDIA channel-- an offering one can adjust from 3000 to 20000K to achieve a true 6500K colour temperature.

Seymour colour kitProperly calibrated backlighting (aka hue) behind and around the film screen improves contrast and reduces eye strain, making it especially useful when combining a high-brightness projector with an ambient light rejecting (ALR) film screen in a darkened room setting.

Read more...

Optoma Intros Ultra-Short Throw HZ40UST

  • PDF

Optoma announces a laser ultra-short throw home cinema projector-- the HZ40UST, a projector able to beam a 100-inch image from just 30cm distance, making it ideal for installation in rooms with limited space.

Optoma HZ40USTThe HZ40UST projects 1920 x 1080 resolution images with 400 lumens brightness. It is easy to set up by simply placing it close to the screen or wall, and can project imagery without shadows or cables running across the room. Optoma claims lamp life reaches up to 20000 hours, while low latency projection make it suitable for games as well as regular media. 3D video support is also included.

Read more...

dnp Launches Next-generation Supernova XL

  • PDF

dnp Supernova XL

The original dnp Supernova XL Screen remains the world’s largest optical front projection screen that’s available as a single-screen solution. Now dnp denmark is announces the next-generation Supernova XL with this headline: it delivers an even better picture.

“We’ve eliminated the overlap of the screen materials to ensure an image without any visible seams, which is the key to the best viewing experience,” says dnp VP Global Sales & Marketing, Soeren Kraemmergaard. “Our true optical lens technology delivers crisp high-contrast images without users having to dim the lights or draw the curtains.”

Read more...

Swedish Tech Startup: Sweam Projector

  • PDF

Sweam

Sweam is a TI DLP mobile projector with a touch screen, built-in 4G, Android operating system and wi-fi. This means you can download any apps of your choice and stream video wherever you want.

Sweam is an easy-to-use stand-alone projector, small enough to fit into a jacket pocket, providing both sideward and upward projection.

You won’t need to connect this projector to a phone or a computer. It has its own 4G connection and wi-fi.

Read more...