Outstanding Motorized Home Theater Screen
This is my first motorized home theater screen, so, unfortunately, I can't compare it to another motorized home theater screen for you. However, what I can do is simply tell you about my experience with this screen.
First off, installation is quite straightforward and really isn't all that difficult or even time consuming. Installation for the most part is a one-man job, and the only time you will likely need a helper is when you are lifting the screen onto the mounting brackets. The only thing that could possibly make installation of this screen difficult is if you wanted to install a dedicated electrical outlet so as to avoid having to have the electrical cord running down the wall. Once the screen is mounted on the wall, to complete the installation you will need to spend a few minutes making adjustments to the screen with the supplied adjustment tool. This is also quite straightforward and simple to do.
Once installed, the screen is very easy to operate with...
Very well made and does the job quite well at higher then average cost
I'm not new to home theater and the (home) big screen, having had 6 projectors in the past 16 years, beginning with a Stand Def, then medium High-Def (720) and then to 1080 full high-def 2D and now currently own an Epson 1080 3D projector.
My past screens were made by Dalite or Draper, all manual pull-down and non-tensioned although they all did a superb job at staying reasonably flat and offering a fairly smooth projection surface so the projected image remained sharp across the entire screen. All were matte white and offered about a 1-1.2 gain, which for me, was quite ample for brightness in my darker home theater environment.
My current screen is an inexpensive 106 inch manual pull-down 1.1 gain matte made by Draper that set me back about $125.
The Visual Apex 92 inch projector sells for about ~$900+ and does offer a very precise and smooth electric deployment of the screen as well as retraction plus tensioning of the screen matte fabric and...
Good value screen / I had packaging issues
The Visual Apex screens tend to be in the good value / decent quality category. The first metric for screen quality is gain, a measure of reflectivity based on a reference screen. This screen has gain of 1.1, which is good and puts it in the range of longtime screen makers like Da-Lite. For higher gains of 1.3 or 1.4, you typically have to pay significantly more. Beyond screen quality, I was impressed with the construction of the unit. The housing is made of very solid aluminum extrusions. The small electronics board (not normally accessible) shows a robust, simple design. I was less impressed with the remote controls which had a budget feel to them, a bit like the less substantial remote controls that come with garage door openers.
Opening and closing the screen were straight forward, and the different modes worked well right out of the box. I ran the screen enough times in my testing (too much really) that I tripped the thermal sensor in the motor. I made a quick call to...
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