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Author Topic: Cost of New Screen Reeves Watson Film Handler Posts: 12 From: Colchester, Essex, UK Registered: Oct 2015 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Amanda Mundin Expert Film Handler Posts: 122 From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK Registered: Sep 2005 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Ross McLaughlin Film Handler Posts: 24 From: Worthing, West Sussex, UK Registered: Feb 2012 posted 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!)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-18-2016 07:18 PM                     Wow! Not cheap. Does 'Perlux 140' mean this was a Harkness screen? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-19-2016 12:01 AM                        Correct.  |  IP: Logged

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