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An acoustically transparent (AT) screen is a difficult balance to strike. It has to be both a mirror to light and a window to sound. For decades, an AT screen, like those found at your local cinema and allowing you to hide conspicuous and often ungainly speakers behind it, would cost thousands of dollars. For most of that time period, an AT screen brought substantial image quality compromises due to perforations in solid vinyl or PVC to allow both for light to be reflected and sound to pass through. These perforations aren’t noticeable from 50 feet away on a 50-foot screen, but on a 120” screen at 10 feet away, they certainly were.
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