Off The Shelf Screen Paint

And a couple more shots, to illustrate the lack of "Hot-Spotting" issues with the Sherwin Williams Duration Extra White Matte paint. Taken with all lights out, using the flash on my Leica Camera.

And more shots, to show the black level ability...

My SW Duration Screen (OTS)


Okay...here we go.


Just finished everything up, and my paint crew spent part of the last 4 days here. From set up, building the paint booth, spraying two heavy coats each of the first 3 days (6 coats total, almost 2 gallons), and take down / clean up / detail touch up, to finish the work today.

The sprayer is an electric pro model, and they run around $4000. A spray wand was employed, with a .13 tip. The paint was not reduced with water, and the pressure used was 2500 psi.
No overlap coats. None. And my painter did one continuous spray application...he did not employ a start / stop method.

For those of you who have not followed this paint exploration, you might look here first to see what got me to this point. It actually started when I taped several sheets of white cardboard on my Behr SS / *** screen, and saw the results.
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/110-d...-vs-satin.html

So in the end we chose the SW Duration Extra White, 2 gallons of Matte, and one gallon of Flat. In that 2 to 1 ratio. Strictly off-the-shelf, and very simple.

There is absolutely zero hot spotting! None at all! And the black level is about as good as it was with my Behr SS.

Doing this myself was not an option. Hiring a professional crew, with professional equipment, was my only choice. If you are good at paint rolling, or spraying, you could do this and save the money on labor. This paint can be rolled or sprayed.

This is a "one size fits all" paint. If you have a light controlled room, and want something simple, this is your solution. Off-the-shelf, no complicated mix, no fuss, readily available at your local Sherwin-Williams store. This works with 720P, 1080P, 4K. We even have an older JVC S-VHS player that looks pretty good on this screen!

We are very pleased with the results.
The hardware includes a new Epson 5050UB, a Panasonic DP-UB820, and a Yamaha CX-A5200 AV Pre-Amp Processor. Note the Epson 5050UB is set at Cinema mode (3rd brightest). In Dynamic, it is much brighter. Also, we are on the mid-power level, to extend the lamp life.

You can "feel" the heat as the Shuttle lifts off!

Here is a good video, with lots of detail, and dark scenes.

Here are a couple photos showing how this screen does in a brightly illuminated room.

I've been using this site's Cream&Sugar recipes since July of 2008. The original recipe when I bought my Panasonic PT-AE2000 1080p projector - which served me well for almost ten years until my basement theater was demolished to repair the main support beam across the basement theater. When I rebuilt the theater room in 2019 with a higher ceiling and JVC's DLA-RS1000 (a/k/a DLA-NX5) entry-level true 4K projector, I painted an entire 14' by 8' high wall with Cream&Sugar Ultra, the final version of the recipe before Harpmaker and crew stopped maintaining that project. (I've always painted my screen with a roller, since there's no ventilation in my theater.)

Cream&Sugar Ultra is also an off-the-shelf.mix,half and half flat white Valspar latex paiantn and Basics Acrylic Silver paint.

My projected area is 11'4" by 6' - 17x9, with a diagonal of 154" - pretty similar to yours.

My throw distance is 15' 9" - as far back as I could get in my room, so I'm using the largest zoom the projector can do.

Interesting tip - photographers know that all but the most expensive "constant aperture" zooms let more light through at their wide angle end than their telephoto end, so you get more light with the projector closer and using the widest angle on your zoom, instead of further back and more towards the telephoto end.

One unpublicized advantage of our painted screens is that the plane of polarization of active-shutter 3D glasses doesn't matter, since the screen disperses the projector's polarization.

My Blu-ray player is one of the last Oppo UDP-203s sold, ordered right after they put up their "Goodbye" screen on April 1, 2018. I considered the Panny you have in 2019 before rebuilding my theater, when I read about its ability to be set to match projector brightness, but then JVC released a free firmware update that added frame-by-frame dynamic tone matching based not on metadata but on actually analyzing the incoming images and adjusting on-the-fly, so I stuck with the Oppo.