The number I keep chewing on from the Paragons of Home Cinema Episode II lineup is 10,000 ISO lumens. That is the Christie 4K1000-KS getting its CEDIA debut in Sound Room 7 - single-chip DLP, 0.8-inch HEP DMD, a 1.25-2.0:1 zoom, $14,461. If you have spent the last decade thinking in the 1,500 to 3,000 lumen bracket like most of us, that is not a brighter version of what you own, it is a different lighting budget entirely.
The rest of the room explains why they need it. Stewart is putting up VistaScope Evo, a two-way vertical masking system using Harmony G3 acoustically transparent woven material, going out to 188 inches diagonal at 2.39:1. Woven AT screens cost you light, masking means you are filling that whole width with scope content, and suddenly ten thousand lumens is a spec rather than a flex. Same reason commercial rooms have always been rated the way they are.
The part I am less sold on is Lumagen debuting the ArtisaN 8K Ready at $11,495, with 4K120 and 8K processing as a $2,500 upgrade later. Eight inputs, two outputs, dynamic tone mapping, a 3ms game mode - fine, that is the day job and Lumagen is good at it. But paying twenty-five hundred down the line to process 8K sources that basically do not exist in this format is buying a promise.
For anyone here running acoustically transparent material on a wide scope screen: what did the weave actually cost you in measured brightness? I have seen guesses from 10 percent to a third and nobody ever posts a number.
The rest of the room explains why they need it. Stewart is putting up VistaScope Evo, a two-way vertical masking system using Harmony G3 acoustically transparent woven material, going out to 188 inches diagonal at 2.39:1. Woven AT screens cost you light, masking means you are filling that whole width with scope content, and suddenly ten thousand lumens is a spec rather than a flex. Same reason commercial rooms have always been rated the way they are.
The part I am less sold on is Lumagen debuting the ArtisaN 8K Ready at $11,495, with 4K120 and 8K processing as a $2,500 upgrade later. Eight inputs, two outputs, dynamic tone mapping, a 3ms game mode - fine, that is the day job and Lumagen is good at it. But paying twenty-five hundred down the line to process 8K sources that basically do not exist in this format is buying a promise.
For anyone here running acoustically transparent material on a wide scope screen: what did the weave actually cost you in measured brightness? I have seen guesses from 10 percent to a third and nobody ever posts a number.
