 Inexpensive 72" x 96" Da-Lite Model B Manual Pull-Down Projection Screen Matte White |
Da-Lite Screen Solutions for your home entertainment
Da-Lite screens offer the world's widest selection of projection screens and projection fabrics.
This vast selection of Da-Lite screens and screen accessories is in itself a reflection of the heavy investment that this manufacturer is putting into projection screen and presentation technology.
Whatever your constraints and requirements - ambient light conditions, projector technology, screen size, budget restrictions, etc., Da-Lite projection screens offer a solution to your needs.
These cover a variety of screen arrays ranging from fixed, electric, manual screens, concealed-in-ceiling, wall, ceiling hung, or floor pull-up, etc.
Included as standard with all Da-Lite screens are black masking borders, while electrically driven adjustable borders and drops are also available to enable you to change the screen format. Electric screens and masks are available in both 110 volt and 220 volt ac models. In addition, all screen arrays are available in a variety of different projection screen fabrics.
For the DIY Home theater enthusiasts and custom applications, Da-Lite screens are also available straight off-the roll, cut to size for use with user provided frames in fixed installations. This service is available for all screen fabrics described in this article.
Which Da-Lite Screen fabric is best for your home theater application?
We have already stated that Da-Lite range of projection screens come in possibly the widest range of screen surfaces available from a single projector screen manufacturer.
Unfortunately however, this vast choice of screen surfaces may often lead to serious difficulty when choosing a projection screen surface. Going for the wrong projection screen surface is definitely not an option.
In the face of the vast choice of projection screens, some would often try to simplify the whole matter by assuming that in the end any projection surface will do. This is not the case. There is no magic screen material that performs perfectly for every installation. Each home cinema design has distinct and unique demands. And projection screen manufactures know this very well. It is for this reason that major AV screen suppliers like Da-Lite have developed specially formulated optical fabrics with different reflective and colorimetric values to cope with the different home theater requirements.
To help you in this selection process, we will discuss some of the most popular Da-Lite screen fabrics for front projection. Note however that while the details given below covers the most important screen materials available for Da-Lite projector screens, please do not consider this list as exhaustive. If for some reason you do not find a suitable screen surface for your requirement, we recommend to download the respective Da-Lite product catalogs through the links provided at the end of this article.
Da-Lite range of front projection screen fabrics includes over sixteen different screen surfaces, each designed to suit different applications, site constrains, and custom requirements. All Da-Lite screens make use of a washable, flame retardant, and mildew resistant screen fabric.
These different screen fabrics can be grouped into eight different types of screen surfaces as follows:
- Matte White and HC (High-Contrast) Matte White
- Cinema Vision, HC Cinema Vision and HC Cinema Perf
The following Da-Lite screen fabrics are being covered under part 2 of this discussion:
- Audio Vision and HC Audio Vision
- Silver Matte and 3D Virtual Grey
- HD Progressive 0.6 and HD Progressive 0.9
The main characteristics for each of these different Da-Lite screen fabrics are being summarized below:
Matte White and High-Contrast Matte White
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Da-Lite Matte White comes with a screen gain of 1.0 and a viewing cone of 120 degrees. This is the most versatile of all Da-Lite screens and often represents the primary choice where ambient light is controllable. It distributes light evenly over a wide viewing area while colors remain bright and life-like, with no shifts in hue. |
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The High Contrast Matte White version of Da-Lite screens comes with a slightly higher screen gain of 1.1 but with a slightly reduced viewing cone of 100 degrees. Designed for moderate output DLP and LCD projectors, this Da-Lite screen surface is ideal when video images are the main source of information being projected and where ambient light is moderately controlled. With its specially designed gray base material and reflective top surface, this screen material is able to provide very good black levels without sacrificing the white level output. |
 Manual 106" Diagonal HDTV Format Home Theater Screen with High Contrast Matte White Fabric |
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Cinema Vision, High Contrast Cinema Vision, and High Contrast Cinema Perf
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Da-Lite Cinema Vision comes with a slightly higher screen gain of 1.3 and a viewing cone for 50% peak gain of 90 degrees. This is an unsupported vinyl surface that offers a bright, uniform image with no color shift no matter at what angle you view the image. This surface is designed to provide a higher amount of brightness for lower output projector types such as CRT. Its increased reflectivity will help enhance the image brightness in situations where low ambient light levels are present. |
100" Diagonal Video Format Fixed Frame Da-Lite screen with Cinema Vision |
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In particular, this Da-Lite screen surface is a good choice when producing video images. A suitable product for home theater use within the range of Da-Lite Cinema Vision screens is the Da-Lite 100" Diagonal Video Format Home Theater Fixed Frame Screen. |
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High Contrast Cinema Vision version of Da-Lite screens comes
with a screen gain of 1.1 and a viewing cone of 100 degrees.
This surface improves the perceived contrast by lowering black
levels while offering moderate gain. It is a flexible unsupported
vinyl fabric and may be folded or rolled. This high contrast version
is available on all models offered with the Cinema Vision Da-Lite
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Da-Lite High Contrast Cinema Perf is a professionally grade screen. This is essentially the same High Contrast Cinema Vision fabric but with perforations in the screen surface to render the material acoustically transparent. In fact, it comes with the same 100 degrees viewing cone and a screen gain of 1.1 as the Cinema Vision fabric. This Da-Lite screen is ideal for use in environments with moderate control of ambient light. |
Tensioned 92" 16:9 Home Theater Electric Screen with High Contrast Cinema Perf |
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Da-Mat and High Contrast Da-Mat
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Da-Lite Da-Mat is a smooth white, vinyl surface finish with a screen gain of 1.0 and a supported viewing cone of 100 degrees. It is the projection screen surface to choose where precise image reproduction is essential. It provides an exceptionally wide angle of view with little loss of resolution. It is made from a highly flexible unsupported vinyl fabric and may be folded or rolled. A prime quality product in the range of Da-Mat screens designed for professional use is the Da-Lite Tensioned Ceiling Recessed 100" Diagonal Video, HDTV, Letterbox and Cinemascope Multiple Aspect Ratio Home Theater Electric Screen. It supports multi-format video through a four position masking system that can be set through the simple touch of a button! |
100-inch Diagonal Multi-format Da-Lite electric screen with Da-Mat Screen Fabric |
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The High Contrast Da-Mat version of Da-Lite screens comes with a somewhat reduced screen gain of 0.8 and a viewing cone of 90 degrees. This is a smooth, gray, vinyl finish surface for high output LCD and DLP projectors. The perceived high contrast effect is achieved as the gray finish effectively lowers the black levels in the projected image. It is a flexible unsupported vinyl fabric and may be folded or rolled. This high contrast version is available on all models offered with the Da-Mat surface. |
150" Video Format Home Theater Fixed Frame Screen with High Contrast Da-Mat Fabric |
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The featured 150" fixed-frame Da-Lite screen is one of the best selling screen products using high contrast Da-Mat fabric. These high contrast projector screens are available in both 4:3 video and HDTV formats with sizes ranging from 72" diagonal to a massive 240" diagonal. |
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