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Thanks to everyone for the input and replies; this is all good stuff.

Colors- The indications here are very similar to what was planned from the start and serve to reinforce those plans very nicely.

Gain – I completely agree that the increased performance of the projectors is driving the need for higher gains down. On top of that, I have never personally been a big fan of high gain screens, but I can estimate that the client will want something in the 1.3 to 1.6 range as a second round offering. That said, the team has made a decision against the use of glass bead coatings due to consumer safety. I have always felt that there was a risk when using the beads due to transfer into the eyes. Consequently, I have interviewed specialists in the optometry field; they are all in agreement that the use of the glass beads is a significant consumer safely risk, especially to families with toddlers and young children. This is simply due to the strong possibility of the glass beads transferring to the child’s fingers, then to the eyes. Once in the eyes, the beads pose a very real risk of serious problems. Other companies may feel differently about this and may have well proven solutions.

Motorized screens Tab tensioned only. We are not working on any non tensioned screens at this time.
For the housings, I have a reasonably neat multiple mounting system worked out that will allow for ceiling or wall mounting without having to go through a lot of extra steps. Simplicity and safe are keys here as I see it. Obviously, aesthetics are important in the finished product and that is high on the priority list as well.

Masking systems are not a hot priority right now. Acoustically transparent is, but there is some skepticism about how well this will sell. Those will have to come later. Maybe early ’09?

Where am I ? -

Right after posting this, I experienced a significant computer glitch that basically took me out of action for a while. To make matters worse, it was on the day I would have typically done a remote backup. Drive C= crashed, D= damaged. I was not even able to get my outlook .pst file or any meaningful data off the other drive, so I am in something of a rebuilding process on the last 3 weeks of data. Fortunately, this does not have any real impact on my company operations other than being a pain in the butt for my GM and our computer guy since I do not store any significant amount of project files or engineering data on my notebook.

If you are looking geographical location, it depends on which day you ask. My company has offices in Shenzhen, China and Manila, Philippines. My work has me traveling extensively between the offices and other areas within Asia and while not doing that, I am either stateside on business or in Guam.