(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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