Well, despite the fact that I was dead tired and have compensated with way too much dew, the day went well. I went and hung out in a fabric warehouse for about an hour, and came back with some nice stuff. I bought a piece of material that looks like it's the same stuff real screens are made from. I also bought some
very black material for around the edges and for masking. The black from the projector on it doesn't look like there's anything on it, so it'll just be the picture once I finish making it. And it's hard to beat the price too - 75" screen with aspect ratio masks for $22.38 plus a few bucks worth of wood to hook it all together. Much better than buying one... I actually tacked the screen material up to see how it looks and to enjoy it even before I put it all together. All I can say is wow. It has enough gain to almost but not quite eliminate the lines between pixels on the projector. The colors are also very bright, but don't bleed at all. Basically both DVD and Laserdisc look pretty much like pictures. So for pure eye candy I watched
X-Men, along with trailers for it, Spiderman, xXx, and Stewart Little. The only problem with DVD now is the color artifacts from the horrible color bandwidth compression on DVD MPEG-2... Then I watched
Patriot Games on laserdisc. As if I wasn't hooked on movies enough already...