For the past 7 years we've been using a smooth finished white painted wall as the projection surface for our Epson Home Cinema 8350 projector and have been perfectly happy with the picture quality. But at the same time I've wondered if using an actual projector screen would make the picture even better. From the research I've done on the topic white screens work best in completely dark rooms. Our media room is in our basement and has no windows in it so it can be completely dark at any time of the day. However Most of the time we watch movies or TV shows we leave some of the lights in the room on so we can see to move around, eat snacks, operate the remote control and whatever. The good thing is we have control of the lights in our room and can leave the lights closest to the screen wall off which gives us a very nice picture even when we leave the lights at the back of the room on. That being said I wanted to find out if using Carl's Place's FlexiGray screen material that everyone online seems to love and recommend would give us an even better picture when we're watching stuff with the real lights on. In this video I take you along with me on my little journey of discovery. I show you how I chose to build the frame for my screen, stretched and secured the FlexiGray material onto it and then compare the picture I get on the gray screen with the picture our smooth white wall produced. I hope you enjoy this video and it helps you with building your own DIY movie screen as well as answers questions you may have. Cheers. :)

Want to build your own DIY home theater screen? Here's where I bought my screen material if you'd like to check out Carl's Place. https://www.carlofet.com/

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Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. :)

Time Stamps

0:00 - welcome to my home theater :)
0:56 - measuring for the screen
1:16 - Carl's Place FlexiGray screen material
1:38 - we like having some lights on
1:59 - building the screen frame
5:09 - applying screen material to the frame
6:49 - hanging the screen on my wall
7:56 - time to find out how the screen works
8:18 - white wall VS FlexiGray screen with all lights on
9:16 - white wall VS FlexiGray screen with rear lights on
11:01 - white wall VS FlexiGray screen with all lights off
12:49 - the final verdict
14:24 - Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! :)

Music in this video - "Apolllo" by Patrick Patrikios from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library

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