Elite Screens Aeon Series 120-Inch 16:9 Edge Free 8K / 4K Ultra HD Fixed Frame Projector Screen, CineGrey Matte Grey for Standard/Short/Ultra Short Throw Projectors, Home Theater & Office Use-AR120H2

After many reviews and hours of research I finally pulled the trigger on the Cinegrey 5D screen. I watched clips of other screens and am lucky enough to be close enough to Elite and the more expensive competitor, SI, to view this screen and the Black Diamond in person. There is clearly not $1700 dollars difference to justify the more expensive SI BD screen (IMO).Installation: I was prepared for an exercise in futility after reading some of the other reviews here with regards to putting this together. I cleared an open space, laid down two bed sheets over the hardwood and followed the instructions to put it together. Bolting the frame together was a snap. The instructions were clear and being able to lay it all out made is a snap. The felt overlay has a few little shoddy spots (Black Sharpie fixed that) and doesn't perfectly align in one joint, but it's nothing anyone but me will notice. A cordless power drill had this thing together in about 10 minutes.The screen, once laid out on the frame was fairly self explanatory. The nice little red arrows on the frame showing where the snaps lock in was a nice addition. The plastic tubes go in like a tent (Make sure to have the shorter ones on the horizontal and the two long ones on the vertical) and then I placed them in the grooved frame and went around the frame pulling it tight and pushing the screen into place and locking it in place with the snaps. I took my time here and stopped a for a beer, but in all it took no more than 15 minutes to get the screen in place. I was a little worried, because once I completed it there were some waves in the bottom of the screen. Not to fear, once the brace was locked into place it pulled everything very tight. I now had a perfectly smooth ready to hang screen. Piece of cake.Viewing Experience: This section will have an update once my Benq W1070 arrives this week. I used my conference projector as an initial test case. It's an Epson. EX5220, super simple conference room projector and not intended for home theater. I fired it up with the HDMI output from my cable box with no lights and my initial impression was wow. I couldn't believe the picture from this no frills business projector. This thing usually looks washed out with no color pop at all. Then I turned all the lights on in the living room. There are no less than 6 LED lights on and the picture was unfazed. Once again, I was shocked at the picture. Little to no washout at all. Then came the next day. At 2 in the afternoon it's the brightest my living room gets. While there is no direct light, it's still full on daytime. The picture was once again fully watchable with very little washout at all. My wife couldn't tell the difference between the night with all the lights on and the day with the blinds open. I'll give a full review with video once the Benq is installed.I would recommend this screen for anyone with ambient light issues. You're never going to get the same picture as a fully blacked out room, but IMO this is about as close as you are going to get with the lights on. Also, don't expect miracles if you have sunlight shining directly on your screen. Heck, even LCD and Plasmas have issues displaying properly with that problem. Get it, you won't be disappointed.

Super easy to assemble and install. The only challenging part was installing the center vertical support--its a little tough to get the holes lined up. Notably flatter and brighter than my old Amazon Basics pull down (which was already a huge step up from a painted wall). I opted to use the included thin bezel, I'm not a fan of the fully borderless look but with the bezel its perfect.

This is a really great screen. The picture is crystal clear and the colors very vivid, far better than my old screen. The lights in my theater room do wash out the picture, although not as much as my old screen. I'm giving 4 stars for that reason: because it doesn't quite live up to the "ambient light rejecting" claims, but it does everything else you expect out of a screen.The quality of this screen is very good. Packaging and product protection was very good. Assembly was very straight-forward and easy, just a bit time consuming; I think it took me about 90 min - 2 hours to complete (I did take my time to make sure everything was perfect). There are some gaps where the corner pieces butt up against each other, but they are negligible and cannot really be seen from more than a few feet away thanks to the black velvet trim.Bottom line: If you're on the edge about this and a more expensive screen because you're concerned about quality, save your money and get this screen. Push that extra cash into a better projector. This screen performs as good as or better than all my neighbor's screens that cost 2x this one.

The media could not be loaded. This Screen is simply wonderful! I couldn't say enough about it's performance so I decided to post a short video. In the dark this screen is just as impressive. If you place the projector at even level with the top of the screen and at 1.6x the screen width the hot spot effect is minimal. So in short I'd recommend this screen to anyone!

Love the curved screen. 4K Picture on the screen is awesome. I would definitely give the screen 5 STARS. But......Assembly was little difficult as the screen material needs to be really stretched and clamped. Probably it may be easier to do it with help. Mounting instructions / measurements to place the hinges to hang the screen is completely off in the provided manual. I had to remove the bottom hinges multiple times and manually place it to get a tight fit. Once the screen was mounted, it looked great aesthetically and the picture quality is fantastic.