Projection screens - information and purchase advice
Welcome to our detailed websites about projection screen, projectors and beamers! Those who want to have a small cinema at home, enjoy some films and images in the living room by means of a beamer or arrange a small conference room with a modern technique of presentation will find some detailed information on this page for the choice of the suitable projection screen.
In our Screen-Shop there are screens of different sizes available for a reasonable price. On the following websites, we do not only guide you step by step to the best suitable screen for you but also provide you with some detailed technical and specialized information all around the topic of the projection screens, presentation and projection. In the following text we present a short index of each of our pages concerning this topic:
Index
On this website, the buyer of a projection screen is guided step by step to the most suitable projection screen. Each of the steps that should be considered for the decision making are shortly explained in a way that it is easy to understand, so that also an amateur will easily find the necessary information for the choice of the right screen. In our screen purchase advice, each of the following steps are followed one by one:
- 1. Step: Type of projection
- 2. Step: Screen model constructionl
- 3. Step: Projection screen masking
- 4. Step: Type of projection screen, cloth type and gain-factor
- 5. Step: Image format, aspect ratio
- 6. Step: Size of the projection screen
This chapter provides a detailed overview of the different types of screens available according to the DIN standard. Each type of screen is described in detail and a graph illustrates each of the respective light-reflection behaviour. Each of the following screen types are described:
- Screen type D
- Screen type B
- Screen type S
- Screen type R
This website provides a detailed overview of the possible screen formats and projection formats. There are numerous pictures illustrating how, for example, a slide, a computer image, a normal TV image or a movie with a determined projection size is represented on the screen.
- Screen size, image size and masking
- Image formats in the fields of photography, computer and TV
- Screen format 1:1
- Screen format 4:3
- Screen format 16:9
The projection screens are characterized with a so-called light density factor (also known as gain factor). This page explains in detail what a light density factor is, how it is defined and how it is applied in practice.
- Introduction and motivation
- Definition of the gain factor
- Measure of the light density factor
- Illustration of the light density factor by means of distribution curves
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