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Screen Excellence’s VistaCurve curved screen
Immersion, drama, authenticity—home theater provides all of these to your movie-viewing experience, especially when you go for the CinemaScope constant height setup.
To correspond better to your anamorphic lens setup, Screen Excellence has introduced its VistaCurve screens designed for those super-wide screen theaters.
The VistaCurve screens eliminate pin-cushioning that can occur with some anamorphic setups, with its slightly curved screen balancing the image all the way from the 80-inch wide starting models to the 160-inch wide limit that will have you thinking you’re sitting in almost a mini-IMAX.
The screens start at $5,800, and you can have them installed as either 1.78:1 or 2.37:1 aspect ratio versions (the 2.37:1 being the constant image height setup in conjunction with the projector and anamorphic lens).
With an eye toward high-end digital cinema, Screen Excellence uses its new Enlightor 4K acoustically transparent screen material with VistaCurve to rid you of any moire effect on the image and any audio hot-spotting.
You also get a spiffy velour-covered 3.7-inch wide radiused frame, plus black backing fabric so there aren’t any light reflections from behind the screen, the company says.
You’ll have to provide that ‘Dark Knight’ or ‘Iron Man’ Blu-ray to properly christen your new VistaCurve, though.
Can someone please explain to me the benefit of curving a 1.78:1 screen? I understand curving a 2.35:1 screen due to the pin cushion effect from adding additional optics, but I was under the impression that 1.78:1 projectors were optimized for flat screens.
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Hi John,
I think that they are pushing it for two reasons which are supposed to make a significant difference:
If the curve is correct for the room, light projected from the projector hits the screen, and rather than reflecting all over the room, is reflected back towards the viewers, resulting in a brighter picture.
Also, the curve of the screen makes it equidistant from the projector, which helps with the uniformity of the brightness of the image. Again, I’m not sure how big a deal this is in a ‘typical’ home, but technically, the distance the image is thrown to the center of the screen will be shorter than the distance to the edges (assuming the projector is in the middle of the screen), which would result in the center of the image being brighter than the edges. Curve the screen, and everything is the same distance.
I’ve never seen a curved screen (in a home) in action, so I don’t know if it makes that big a difference.