UST Screen Upgrade- Is Bigger Better?

[OCD]

Have a mixed use set-up, day(filtered light) and night time viewing, currently have a 100" Fresnel screen, with a Formovie Theatre projector, thinking of going bigger, started researching 130-150 inch screens, to learn the bigger screens are joined, with a seem, which doesn't sound ideal, but haven't seen one either so can't say.

 

Budget is $2500, the less the better really.

 

So I could go another Fresnel at 120", for approx $1700, or the new Nothing Projector 132" Seemless Lenticular UST ALR for a tad under $2300 with discount codes.

 

I've sent a message to XY Screens to see how much their 140" PET Crystal screen is delivered, this will have a seem, waiting to hear back.

 

So my question is, would I see much of a difference going from 100 to 120" on the Fresnel? Viewing angles aren't great but it's usually just me and the mrs or me and the kids, so max 3-4 people, at 3-4m away from the screen, could move closer I guess. 

 

Going to 132-140" should make a difference to the wow factor, but at the cost of overall picture quality, I'm assuming, thoughts? 

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[usethe4c]

Commenting as a long throw user,purely re the size  120" is 40% more screen area than a 100", it's a good size in my 5.8m deep x 3.96 wide living/media room sitting 3.7m from the screen with a 8ft ceiling. The tab tension screen comes down in front of the tv and AV gear.

 

In my case a centre speaker sits under it at a more or less ok height on a stand angled at the listening position. Going bigger requires more ceiling height (if you have that great no issues) or forgoing the idea of a centre speaker at some point. A big screen without the big sound isn't something I'd contemplate personally, but different horses for different courses as they say. 120" was a huge immersiveness improvement over my previous 90".

3d in particular is sublime. Bigger screens means more might needs to be painted on it effectively. Short throws have a lot of light available from their laser engines but more screen area regardless of what projector will result in a dimmer picture than you have now depending on screen mode etc.

 

Vividstorm might or might not be lower quality than the solutions you are looking at but they do make decent CLR screens for short throws by all reports although the occasional QC issue on the AVS forum and have an .au website / local distributors and warranty from my previous emails and chats with them. Every time I visit their site something seems to be on sale. I'd be checking their site out around black friday sale time if you've not pulled the trigger on something yet. 

 

Hope that vaguely helps!

 

Cheers

 

Steve