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Posted by Reeves Watson (Member # 9124) on 01-14-2016, 06:37 AM:

Hello,

We are chasing a quote for a replacement screen, we are looking at a 10 metre wide, perforated screen and whilst I am waiting for the quote I am desperate for an estimate of how much this will cost.

Could anyone suggest what we would be looking at in the UK for this?

Many thanks

Reeves

Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 01-14-2016, 07:29 AM:

First of all - do you operate/plan to operate a 3D system? Which? What projector/max bulb type do you use?

Which screen manufacturer have you requested? Don't play cheap on a screen. Get the best, or you will regret it for years and years. A friend was persuaded into a low-cost screen, and now he and his patrons are seeing those bad seams day in, day out...

As you are from the UK, the choice is obvious - Harkness!

If you are not a regular reader - sign up for cinema technology magazine, you will find loads of integrators and other business contacts in it to get quotes.

http://www.cinematechnologymagazine.com/

- Carsten

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-14-2016, 10:58 AM:

Our screen is just over 9 meters wide and cost about $2500 USD installed, in 2010. Our auditorium is rated "huge pain in the butt" for screen installations (Just ask Mark Gulbrandsen) so our labor cost might have been a little higher than a typical cinema.

Posted by Amanda Mundin (Member # 3386) on 01-15-2016, 04:40 AM:

Our screen sheet was changed last year, Matt White Mini-Perf, 8.2m x 3.43m scope is largest picture, around £1600-£1700 ex.VAT from memory installed.

Posted by Ross McLaughlin (Member # 6774) on 01-15-2016, 08:56 PM:

We had quotes for a 9m x 4.2m screen couple of months back, it was something like £1k for white, £3k silver and almost £4k for Clarus XC20 (we're trying to decide whether to keep 3D in that auditorium or not hence the white & silver quotes!)

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-18-2016, 06:42 PM:

We had a screen 16'2" (493cm) by 41'6" (1,265 cm) replaced with Perlux 140 following an accident last summer that put a tear in it - total cost, including screen, delivery and installation was just over $10k (GBP 7,012).

That was probably inflated by a higher than average shipping cost, though, because the screen had to be shipped from VA to CA.

Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 01-18-2016, 07:18 PM:

Wow! Not cheap. Does 'Perlux 140' mean this was a Harkness screen?

- Carsten

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-19-2016, 12:01 AM:

Correct.