Go Big So You Can Stay Home
⚡ QUICK SUMMARY
When Mark's 65” TV died, he replaced it with a 100” Screen Innovations Solo Pro screen and an Epson projector in his own Manhattan living room. Total retail cost: just shy of $6,500. Result: 150% more viewing area than the old TV, at least 30% less than a 77” OLED, and a lights-dim, shades-close “wow” moment every movie night.
So when the 65” TV developed a vertical line in it, it was time to revisit my options. With the invisible speakers were already in the wall and right at the edges of I the TV, I didn’t want to deal with moving them. In hindsight I should have left more space, but that is why we always install at our own homes first, so we don’t make mistakes like that at a client’s home. So I started exploring different solutions. After a lot of research into projectors, I finally settled on a 100” Screen Innovations Solo Pro screen - the largest that would fit on the wall and be relatively centered on the sofa - and an Epson projector with 2500 lumens of light output.
A Few Hours to Install
It only took a few hours to mount the projector, mount the screen, reprogram the remote and get everything set up. Screen Innovations has made things amazingly straightforward with their new Solo Pro line of screens. The housing is very slim and discreet, at only 4” square and the motor uses a lithium battery that can last for over a year on a single charge and is recharged with an included inductive charger - just clip the magnetic head of the charger onto the housing and in six hours the battery is fully recharged. There are no battery compartments to open and no batteries to be replaced. The screen can be recharged up to 500 times!
💡 Why This Screen
The Solo Pro housing is only 4” square, and its battery lasts over a year per charge. No battery doors, no ladder every few months.
The Surprise
I planned the install of the projection system to surprise my family. They knew I was thinking about it, but did not know I had purchased everything. When each of them came home from school and work, they were at first confused - it was pretty obvious there was no longer a TV on the wall. Then each slowly realized what was going on and stared in disbelief as I press ‘watch Apple TV’ on the remote and the projector fired up, the screen descended, the lights dimmed and the shades closed. It is a pretty cool experience.
The Math: Bigger Screen, Lower Cost Per Inch
On a per-inch cost basis, a projection system can be a great value. The retail cost of everything we installed is just shy of $6500. While that is significantly more than a 65” screen, we have 150% larger viewing area and the cost is at least 30% lower than a 77” OLED TV. With the benefits of a larger screen, WAY better aesthetics, and an incredible ‘wow’ factor, there really is very little reason not to go big!
I strongly encourage you to check out what you can accomplish with a projection system in your own home.
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Try the Price EstimatorAbout the Author
Mark Feinberg, Founder & CEO of Home Theater Advisors. Before founding HTA in 2011, Mark ran Product Management at ADI, one of the largest AV distributors in the country. He is a Certified Control4 Smart Home Dealer and CEDIA member, and HTA has earned multiple Houzz Best of Design Awards. Mark holds a BA from Dartmouth and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. He lives in Manhattan with his family.
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