Saw a first UST build posted this week and the gear list is worth reading closely, because the interesting decision is not the projector. It is a Hisense PX3-Pro firing into a 120-inch Vividstorm S Pro electric tab-tensioned floor screen, sat in a Vividstorm Monte Carlo cabinet, with a Samsung HW-Q990F soundbar, an Nvidia Shield Pro, an Xbox Series X and a Switch 2 hanging off it. The owner says it holds up in a living room with a fair amount of ambient light, for both movies and online multiplayer.
The bit people skim past is the screen. A tab-tensioned floor-rising ALR screen is a serious chunk of the budget on a build like this, and it is the component actually doing the work in daylight. Point the same projector at white paint and the same room reads as washed out and disappointing, and then the projector gets blamed. If you are pricing a UST and the screen line is a placeholder, your budget is wrong.
The other honest detail is the 65-inch Samsung still in the room for daytime and casual watching. Almost nobody admits that in a build thread. It is the correct setup for most living rooms, though. The UST is for when you sit down on purpose, the TV is for background and news, and pretending one box covers both is how people end up unhappy.
I would want to know what the tab-tensioned surface does over a couple of years of rising and dropping daily, because that is the part with a moving mechanism and a tensioned fabric. Anyone here two or three years into a floor-rising screen and still happy with how flat it sits?
The bit people skim past is the screen. A tab-tensioned floor-rising ALR screen is a serious chunk of the budget on a build like this, and it is the component actually doing the work in daylight. Point the same projector at white paint and the same room reads as washed out and disappointing, and then the projector gets blamed. If you are pricing a UST and the screen line is a placeholder, your budget is wrong.
The other honest detail is the 65-inch Samsung still in the room for daytime and casual watching. Almost nobody admits that in a build thread. It is the correct setup for most living rooms, though. The UST is for when you sit down on purpose, the TV is for background and news, and pretending one box covers both is how people end up unhappy.
I would want to know what the tab-tensioned surface does over a couple of years of rising and dropping daily, because that is the part with a moving mechanism and a tensioned fabric. Anyone here two or three years into a floor-rising screen and still happy with how flat it sits?
