Leave the Lights On: Seymour-Screen Excellence Reveals Its First AT Ambient Light-Rejecting Film Screen

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(August 26, 2021) In typical late summer fashion, Seymour-Screen Excellence (SSE) is grabbing the home theater spotlight with an incredible film screen reveal. Drawing up its expertise in acoustically transparent (AT) and ambient light-rejecting (ALR) screen technologies, SSE has launched a new screen material called Ambient-Visionaire Black 0.8MP. Harnessing the ability to absorb massive amounts of light while delivering true-cinema acoustic transparency, Black 0.8MP is the perfect high-end option for reference video performance in entertainment spaces with ambient light.

“Seymour-Screen Excellence’s Black surfaces offer the most effective ambient light filtration available in an optical screen,” explains Seymour-Screen Excellence Managing Director Chris Seymour. “With a deep background that absorbs 90% of ambient light from any direction, and an aggressive combination of carbon particles and stacked, dithered nano-mirrors, our screens deliver a 12x improvement in contrast ratios in environments that are otherwise unsuited to front projection use, even outdoors.”

Black 0.8MP is a micro-perforated version of the company’s Ambient-Visionaire Black 0.9 gain ultra-wide ALR screen material, possessing precisely punched ~120 holes/inch (each 0.02-inch in diameter) for incredible sound transparency. The screen offers a wide 90-degree viewing cone for excellent performance across a large seating area, with screen sizes reaching 210-inches on the company’s Series-3 VistaCurve fixed-frame, 200-inches on Series -1 and -3 fixed-frames. and 140-inches on Series-2 and 150-inches on its TRIM motorized masking system.

This latest release is the fifth model available in SSE’s Ambient-Visionaire lineup. Other models include Black 1.2, Black 0.9, Silver 2.1, and Silver 1.3. Serving as the technology’s developer, Chris Seymour says, “ The Ambient-Visionaire surfaces are comprised of billions of nano-mirrors, dithered at the desired viewing angle and layered so that side light from any direction will be absorbed by carbon particles and the substrate.

The reflective elements are shrunk down to less than 1/10th the smallest size visible by the human eye, therefore the screen cannot create a discrete sparkle. So small and dense, a 16K resolution pixel would have over 300 mirrors to itself; a 4K pixel would have nearly 5,000.

With this more efficient method of selectively reflecting the projected image versus ambient light, the screen offers the reference quality color uniformity that Seymour-Screen Excellence is known for without exhibiting any color shift, sparkles or ringing – all issues that have plagued performance of ALR film screens.”

Based on prior reviews of Ambient-Visionaire products, Black 0.8MP is destined to be a smash-hit with customer integrators and enthusiasts alike. For more information on Seymour-Screen Excellence, visit www.seymourscreenexcellence.com or call 515.450.5694.


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Weird… all of the images load just fine for me…??
 

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Weird… all of the images load just fine for me…??
Strange. On macOS, they load fine in Safari, but not Chrome or Firefox. These two images are failing:

gallery.php:117 GET http://www.seymourscreenexcellence.com/images/ngo960.jpg 404 (Not Found)
gallery.php:121 GET http://www.seymourscreenexcellence.com/images/BWA960.jpg 404 (Not Found)

It looks like Safari just skips past the images that don't load rather than displaying them as broken like Chrome and Firefox.

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Huh? I did not think it would be possible with a perf screen. It looks to me to be a darker gray screen with higher gain? Because those blacks seem to be pretty washed out to me. Sure would love to put this under the microscope!

ALR is such a misnomer in that the majority of those labeled as such are absorbing, not rejecting, ambient light.
 

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Strange. On macOS, they load fine in Safari, but not Chrome or Firefox. These two images are failing:

gallery.php:117 GET http://www.seymourscreenexcellence.com/images/ngo960.jpg 404 (Not Found)
gallery.php:121 GET http://www.seymourscreenexcellence.com/images/BWA960.jpg 404 (Not Found)

It looks like Safari just skips past the images that don't load rather than displaying them as broken like Chrome and Firefox.

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That is strange... I'll let them know!
 

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Huh? I did not think it would be possible with a perf screen. It looks to me to be a darker gray screen with higher gain? Because those blacks seem to be pretty washed out to me. Sure would love to put this under the microscope!

ALR is such a misnomer in that the majority of those labeled as such are absorbing, not rejecting, ambient light.
It's hard to tell how well it performs in pictures versus what we'd see with the naked eye. I believe it's 0.8 gain...so, nothing extraordinary. SSE's use of nano-mirrors indicates that it is more light rejecting than absorbing.... would definitely be interesting to have you put it to a test!
 

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Huh? I did not think it would be possible with a perf screen. It looks to me to be a darker gray screen with higher gain? Because those blacks seem to be pretty washed out to me. Sure would love to put this under the microscope!

ALR is such a misnomer in that the majority of those labeled as such are absorbing, not rejecting, ambient light.
If you’re still making trips to ISU it would be easy to set up a demo. I, unfortunately, did not get a chance to see it in person before my move.
 

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If you’re still making trips to ISU it would be easy to set up a demo. I, unfortunately, did not get a chance to see it in person before my move.
No my daughter was a COVID graduate. I'll be going down for her make-up ceremony this October but I wouldn't be able to swing by then. And I probably wouldn't be able to swing down there again until March. :gah:
 
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