I don’t own a front projector, though I hope to one day. (The Sony VPL-VW100 SXRD projector looks nice. I’ll take one of those please!) So I don’t know too much about different kinds of projector screens yet. But I think they might be a lot like tires. Tires are what actually connect your car to the road and are therefore one of the most important things on your car. Similarly, the screen is where all that work the projector does actually gets showcased to your eyeballs. So therefore the kind of screen you buy must be pretty important. You wouldn’t want a screen to ruin all the hard work your projector does, do you?

Which makes me wonder about this screen from Screen Innovations. Supposedly it’s for use in high ambient light conditions. Wouldn’t it be somewhat of a waste to use a projector in those kind of conditions? Maybe. But Screen Innovations is definitely trying to show off your projector in both the best and worst of lights.

It succeeds, to a certain extent:

If the room has a fair amount of ambient light, but isn’t bathed in sunlight during the daytime, a projector, combined with the Visage screen would allow you to skip the plasma, and rely on the projector, at least for normal TV/HDTV type viewing, sports, etc. If you are trying to watch a movie with a dark scene, if there is a fair amount of light in the room, you may be able to seem most of the action, but dark areas will still be mostly washed out.

Projector Reviews - Screen Innovations Visage High Gain Screen