PRO-CURVE Fixed Frame Acoustically Transparent  Screen 

As the projection world changes everyday, more and more home theater builders are converting to CinemaScope screens. A super wide Cinemascope screen allows you to watch a widescreen movie the way Hollywood intended it to be viewed and gives you 33% more resolution from your projector (see below).

The main objective to home theater has always been to bring the full movie experience into it. Most people fail to realize that the true full movie experience is not all about an oversized 16:9 (1.78) HDTV screen, it is actually all about a Cinemascope screen.

Most movies are produced in a Cinemascope format also known as 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The Cinemascope screen immerses the viewer into the movie by opening up their peripheral vision. It has been said before that one way to compare a 2.35:1 aspect ratio screen to a 16:9 screen is the same difference as watching the world go by through your picture window or stepping outside your home and taking part in the world.

The Pro-Curve takes the home theater Cinemascope experience one step further by encapsulating the viewer even more-so into the movie. We do this by almost surrounding the movie around you with our Pro-Curve curved projector screens. The curve of the Pro-Curve not only draws the viewer more Into the movie but reaps many other benefits as well.

PROCURV Features:

A flat projection screen reflects light back to the audience as well as the side walls next to it. Light reflecting off the side walls can reflect back to the projector screen washing out the projected image. Light can also reflect the color of the wall (including dark colored walls) back to the projection screen causing an unwanted color shift of the projected image.

The concave shape of the Pro-Curve directs the projected reflected light towards the center of the viewing audience which helps keep light off the side walls.

The Curve

The Pro-Curve comes in three standard radius curves. The three radius' are, 40' (being the most commonly used), 30' and 20'. The tighter radius' are known to help out people with very short throw distances and heavier anamorphic distortion. Some people prefer a tighter curved radius for a more dramatic curved screen effect in their theater.

Besides the three standard radius's we offer, custom radius curves can be made as well.

Correction of anamorphic lens distortion

Cinemascope is widely becoming more popular in today's home theaters. More and more home theater builders are using adaptable anamorphic lenses and scalers to increase the resolution and light output of the 2.35 aspect ratio projected image.

Anamorphic lenses are known to distort the projected image by making the center of the projected image more narrow than the edges. The concave shape of the Pro-Curve projector screen reverses this effect by bringing the ends of the screen closer to the audience and pushing the center of the screen away from the audience thus giving you a non distorted projected image.

A little more info on anamorphic lenses...
When watching a 2.35:1 movie on a 16:9 projector and screen, the unwanted black bars above and below the movie account for 33% of loss resolution and up to 20% of loss light.

By adding an anamorphic lens, scaler and Cinemascope screen, you can eliminate the black bars and get 33% more resolution and up to 20% more light from your projector. This is an incredible upgrade in itself considering.

The Frame

The following comparison picture was shot with a camera and flash. The SmX true black velvet (on the left side) and the leading screen companies black flock trim (on the right side) were side by side when the picture was shot.

Notice how the leading screen companies flock trim reflects all the light from the camera flash, however the SmX true velvet trim absorbs all the light from the camera flash.

Do you want a grey trimmed frame around your screen or a true black one?

SMX TRUE BLACK VELVET TRIM LEADING SCREEN COMPANY BLACK FLOCK TRIM

SmX also offers exotic wood veneered finished frames as well as other colored velvets.

Our Pro-Curve screen ranges in sizes from 80" wide up to 20' wide with all aspect ratios. Every SmX screen is custom made to order, so custom sizes and configurations are quickly and easily produced.

Your Pro-Curve screen comes with everything necessary to make assembly and installation an ease.

10 Year Warranty

The SmX Pro-Line Frame is backed with a 10 year warranty against manufacturer defects, 2 years on the screen material.