Choosing a Screen for a Home Theater

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Hello, I'm Reggie Hayes here with Expert Village. We've talked about projectors; let's take a minute to talk about screens to go with those projectors. Screens will cost you anywhere from $300 to $1000, depending on what you want to pay for. There's some that you pull down with your hand, if you really want to go cool with the home theater thing, they have remote controlled screens that come down at the push of a button, of course those options are a lot more expensive. As far as screens, you have basically two options. You can have a front projector that projects the image on the screen from behind you just like as if you were sitting in a movie theater. You also have the option of having a back-lit projector, or back-lit screen, which means that you see the screen and the projector, would be behind it shooting back toward you. So that is one option. Your best bet is to do your own research. Remember that when you go to choosing screens, it's important to note, as we said with projectors, it's important to know how far you're sitting from that wall. If you're sitting only five to eight, in this case we're sitting twelve feet from our wall, you're going to have a hard time seeing that picture if it's a great big eighty inch screen. It's going to be really tough on your eyes and it will give you a headache watching special things like football games and things like that. But if you have a much longer room, a much more rectangular shaped room, a screen might be your best best. It might be an option you'll want to explore.

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