Recommended Standard Throw Projector Screens

If you have a standard throw triple laser projector like the Valerion Pro 2, Hisense C1, Hisense C2 Ultra, or any of the JMGO N1 or N1S lineup, you’re going to want a screen that reduces laser speckle. If you want to reduce that speckle all the way down to zero and maintain great maximum brightness, uniformity, and viewing angle, then the Silver Ticket Woven Acoustically Transparent material is king. Great news is that it’s super reasonably priced and comes in a ton of different screen sizes all the way up to 162”.

If you want to reduce the laser speckle of your triple laser projector to almost zero while gaining the benefits of an ambient light rejecting screen, then I think the best screen material is a lenticular ALR screen made for ultra-short throw projectors. While I think standard throw lenticular screens could be a great product in the future, the current generation just doesn’t seem to perform as well as it should and isn’t available in as many form factors. Compared to the new standard throw lenticular screens, the UST versions have less hotspotting, less laser speckle, better uniformity, and are available in significantly more form factors.

I thought that the best ALR performance hands down was from the Valerion long throw Fresnel screen, which had a measured gain of 0.55, 81% ambient light rejection from overhead sources, and by far the best brightness uniformity compared to the lenticular ALR screens. The only downside that I noticed was that when flipped upside down for a ceiling mounted projector, there seemed to be some loss of brightness since the focal point of the Fresnel structure was no longer lined up at eye level, but it was still far better than any of the other ALR screens. Even the viewing angle, which is typically a weakness of Fresnel screens, was more than acceptable, even at 45 degrees.