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The Screen

I just couldn't see coughing up more than $4000 for a 144" curved screen.  I looked at one of these on line and after reviewing the assembly instructions concluded I could build one with very little more work than assembling the $4200 one.  Building the frame using 2x4's and 2x6's was not difficult.

Stretching the screen material was the most difficult part and this same task would have to be done on the expensive one.  So the overall additional work to build over assembling the $4200 screen was minimal.  I used Da-Lite screen material with a 1.3 gain from Cousins Video.  For the frame I used a black speaker carpet from Parts Express but this was a mistake.  I believe the correct material is velvet.  Next time that's what I will use but for now the carpet works fine.  It's just a little fuzzy but this isn't visible watching the screen.  The velvet should be much smoother and create a much more well defined edge.