"A high gain screen can make a low-lumen projector look better," says Kevin Baisley, vice president of sales and marketing at Vutec Corporation. That's just one tip to illustrate how big a contribution corporate AV users and their integrators can realize from a system component that's often an afterthought at best: the projection screen.

At the recent Projection Summit in Orlando, Fla., several speakers noted that although projector manufacturers routinely tout the brightness and contrast ratios of their machines, these numbers don't tell the whole story—indeed, they can be downright misleading without some consideration of the screen on which an image is being presented. more>>