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Update 2: I installed the new material and there are no visible artifacts and my screen looks great. Thank you to Elite Screens customer support who listened to my issues and provided me with a replacement materialUPDATE : I contacted elite Screens and they were very courteous and agreed to send me a replacement material. I will update once I have received and installed the materialI ordered this screen back in November 2018 after doing a bit of research. My basement was being constructed so I held off on assembling it. Putting it together was not difficult with 2 people. I noticed right away that the screen has vertical marks over it all across the screen about 5 -7 inches apart. This made my viewing experience very difficult especially during bright scenes. I emailed Elite Screens only to be given a disclaimer by a rep emailed back to me about this product:" For all our ALR Screen Materials, it is normal for there to be vertical lines due to how this surface has to be manufactured"....They attached a product disclaimer but it only mentions a stain that is imprinted into the material, not vertical lines throughout the screen.If i had known this I would not have purchased this screen. It has been a very distracting experience for me and my family. For the price I paid for the screen I am very disappointed.
Maybe my expectations were too high. I just put together a Epson SilverFlex Ultra ALR screen for my Ultra short throw projector and was blown away at how well it rejected ambient light and improved the image. Every light in the room was on and the image was still amazing. I was so impressed with ALR that I looked to upgrade my white Elite Screen paired with my Epson 5050ub in my theater room. Well coming from the Epson SilverFlex Ultra screen which was thick and worked amazing, the Elite Screen Cinegray 3D on the other hand looked and felt super cheap. Any wrong push or pull felt like it would permanently damage the material. Then I got it up and turned on my projector. Needless to say I'm not impressed, the screen not only didn't improve it, now the image seemed dimmer and the colors didn't pop as much. I was also able to see some hot spotting in the center, then I turned on the lights and it didn't seem to reject light at all. In fact my Elite Screen white screen seemed to look better with the lights on and off. I guess you get what you pay for. It was only $1000 for a 150 inch. It's an ok screen but the ambient light rejecting properties are slim to none. It appears to be a cheap plastic screen painted gray.
It's not bad. For the price I wouldn't have thought I would have to install over 100 eyelets on the edge of the screen. It was tedious and time consuming to put the screen together, but not difficult.The downside to this screen is a noticible hotspot in the middle of the screen. It doesn't ruin the picture, but it's definitely more noticeable than I would have thought. It's ok. It's not really worth the price I paid for it, but it's good enough.