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I was really stressed when I decided to buy my Optoma Graywolf screen 92 inches projection, 16 × 9 1.8 gain. According to posts on AVS Forum have to worry about: the search for an online discount retailer that I ship the right product (the Graywolf has a number of products that Optoma white screen), the screen to survive damage during transport (large dents in the deployment reported to housing) and a horizontal line across the image area of a sheet of plastic used for packaging (more on that later). I am happy to say that to avoid all these headaches and received an intact screen at a reasonable price.

Graywolf I came to after a long research trip through DIY screens. Before the cheap Graywolf crossed my browser, I was ready to buy a four by eight sheets of corrugated plastic sheets of a screen, hidden in a velvet edge grown by an elaborate system of coverage for different aspect ratios. DIY All this work became unattractive when she could not calculate the sales in the local fabric store and the shape of the plastic strap to the roof of my truck without a serious accident. The Graywolf sub $ 200 price of the meter of the DIY project and effort.

The Optoma Graywolf is a retractable screen retro-reflection. A brighter image is reflected off the screen closer to your head is the projector (in a sub 20 degree angle). It is said to work best with the projector mounted on cabinets and low-rise coffee tables. AVS Forum members warn against the use of this ceiling projector screen. My Sanyo PLV-Z3 LCD projector is ceiling.

When sitting (under appropriate viewing angle of my projector and screen) lose brightness. Not so much disappointed that the projected image. In fact, when I stand in the proper viewing angle of the screen may look too bright and more saturated (I calibrated sitting in my sweet after all). When you move too far to one side of the screen output of the cone of vision adequate to lose brightness, black wash and colors change and fade.

The Graywolf comes with a plastic sheet wrapped around the upper half of the screen. When you remove the plastic that you'll notice a difference in the reflectivity of the glass in the image of the area under the plastic off the outside. This leaves a faint band in the upper third of the screen you will notice only during scenes with large areas of flat, light color (like a cloudy sky or an endless white room). The band has not gone away for me in the last nine months of ownership.

Like all screens that are not in a frame of the Graywolf has some undulations. The waves are as noticeable as the upper band of plastic, with little or no impact on most or vision. Just look at some scenes and slow motion through flat, bright colors. I still get a perfectly rectangular image from the projector to the screen.

The retraction of the return of the screen is a little sticky and it gets violent when retracted. Luckily Wife_o_Geek has not sought to conceal its screen valance when not in use. Just hang all day, waiting for another night of movie to see.

Graywolf hung up the roof of my roof with large hooks. After careful measurements, I was able to level the screen in three dimensions.

Area of 16 × 9 The image of the Graywolf is a dark gray layer behind the retro-reflective glass. The gray surface increases the perception of black level, increasing the contrast of the screen. I guess my blacks are better than a blank screen equivalent.Blacks increased when mixed with a high contrast image (like Naomi Watts against the sunset of Skull Island from King Kong Peter Jackson (finally saw it in two nights, spectacular looking DVD)) give the image of 3D image depth that makes the screen go back beyond its 2D surface.

The Graywolf is my first front projection screen and I'm very impressed. For the price, you can not beat the value of this screen to complete the entry level front projectors (like my Sanyo PLV-Z3). You get a high contrast, deeper blacks of a movie theater and the big screen geometry despite some waves.

Build a border with fancy crown molding to impress the wife (or just for her so that the screen and the primary school folding table in the room) as I did (well, as my wife asked our carpenter to build, painted Matte black though) and be on your way to an affordable and high-performance home theater.