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off, and thus a small gapping of the fabric occurs. Most situations
like this require a new screen to be sent out. The advantage to the
rod system is that it is less expensive to make, and less difficult to
have mistakes. In addition, since the fabric is effectively “attached”
infinitely along the entire side, there is little chance for gapping.
The Elite EzFrame comes with 2 fabric choices…a HC White and
a High Contrast Gray. For testing I requested the HC White (1.2 gain) as
my room doesn’t typically need a gray screen. The fabric is a very smooth
one with little texture. However, they thought of that too. It comes with a
black backing on it. This adds both a bit of thickness, as well as greatly
reducing any light leakage one might normally get.
COMMENTS ON PERFORMANCE:
NOTE: I did not bother taking screen shots. Why? Well first,
screen shots are only used as a basic idea and unless I did many screens with the same projector, they would tell you
nothing. In addition, depending on the projector I used, that would more determine the resulting quality of the screenshots
I did get. Essentially the camera can’t pickup the slight nuances of different fabrics.
The HC White fabric was surprisingly good. I found that it had a decent reflectivity to it, but didn’t suffer too much
from hotspotting (which obviously you would expect from a lower gain screen), nor did it have any sparkles or other
anomalies to it. Colors were decent as compared to other higher end screens, and about what you’d expect to get for the
price. It didn’t really suffer from a yellowish tinge as some of the other less expensive screens do. All in all I found it to
be a good material for the money. The main negative to the limited material selection is that with only these 2 fabrics to
choose from, you have to rely more on the projector and room for the proper setup. Essentially having a smaller material
selection takes one “tuning” factor (for a room) out of the equation.
CONCLUSIONS:
Elite certainly has a good idea here. Good performance, good build quality, and good features in a screen, for
a lower price point. The main advantages I see to this unit are obviously the price, but moreover the heavy duty velvet
frame and decent quality screen material performance. All in all if you are on a budget and need a good performance
screen, the Elite EzFrame should be something to check out. You get a LOT for your money.
