Aurora 4K HDR NanoEdge Fixed-Frame Screen Features

The Aurora 4K HDR NanoEdge series has arrived after years of research and development, with the goal of unmatched performance in any lighting environment. The Aurora 4K HDR material is an optically engineered material with a special coating designed to give high contrast images in both low and high ambient light situations. Three years of engineering, using nano-engineering techniques, has led to a material that is perfectly smooth, texture free, nearly sparkle-less with virtually no hot-spotting and up to 950% higher contrast. Furthermore, high colour accuracy was achieved, allowing the complete reproduction of the full BT2020 4K UHD HDR colour space. The Aurora 4K HDR material, with its engineering achievements, allows it to realize maximum image fidelity in both high ambient light situations as well as dedicated home theater rooms.

Adding to the performance of the screen is the stunningly beautiful NanoEdge bezel, which is 0.4″ in width, as well as LED lighting which comes standard.

Ultra-Luxurious Modern Design Aesthetic

The ultra-modern sleek contour of the screen elevates the décor of any room that the screen is placed in. This makes the screen the centerpiece of any room and a highlight topic of conversation for all your viewers and guests. The very thin NanoEdge bezel and the LED lights behind the screen, with its large variety of colours and soft glow, complement the mood and style of any décor. The combination of all the Aurora 4K NanoEdge features as well as the unbeatable performance of the Aurora 4K material transforms your projection setup into a high-performance home theater with unparalleled performance and aesthetics.

Durable Long Life and Upgradability

Our  Aurora 4K NanoEdge fixed-frame screens have a very long expected life. This long life, combined with our Aurora 4K material that performs acoustically and visually at the studio/reference level, ensures that this screen can be used for many iterations of projector upgrades.

The projector technology today is advancing by leaps and bounds, which means that every 3-4 years is the optimum time to upgrade your projector. Because our screens perform at the highest level, you will be able to enjoy each improvement in performance to the fullest level on the  Aurora 4K NanoEdge screens. All but the most expensive competitors are currently unable to fully support a 1080p image, which means by purchasing a non-Reference screen, you are effectively wasting the performance of your 1080p projector.

Due to an industry-leading weave tightness, even when projectors reach 4K and 8K pixel resolution, each pixel will be rendered sharply and accurately. Our competitors’ non-reference class screens effectively down-sample today’s high-resolution 1080p projector to a lower-resolution image (as you will see in the tests/demonstration images below), and they will do it even more for tomorrow’s higher resolution 4K and 8K projectors. Whether you are purchasing a screen to get the most performance out of your projector today, or you are purchasing a screen that will work with video resolutions of tomorrow – the  Aurora 4K material is the best solution.

Impregnation with Nano-Optically Shaped Particles

The Aurora 4K HDR screen material uses sub-micron sized highly reflective metallic particles to achieve:

1. High gain, bright whites, high image “pop”, and increases in depth of field, all without sparkles and texturing that competitors’ screens suffer from.

2. Rejection of ambient light, producing much deeper blacks, even under bright conditions.

The end result is extremely large increases in contrast of up to 950%, leading to the deepest blacks and brightest whites in both low and high ambient light situations. In short, your image will be vibrant and high-contrast, no matter the ambient light environment.

Ultra-High Contrast Under both High and Low Ambient-Light Conditions

The engineering and technology used in the Aurora 4K UHD material results in an highly perceptible boost in contrast of up to 950% versus conventional projection materials. The increase in contrast can be seen as a night/day difference in high ambient light situation. Furthermore, unlike other ambient-light rejecting materials, which only work well in high ambient-light situations, the Aurora 4K UHD material can be used in both high-ambient light environments, dedicated theater rooms and everything else in between. The material decreases light spill and light scatter which ultimately results in higher contrast in any environment, allowing you to maximize projection performance of your theater whether you have the lights on or off.

Specifically Designed for 4K HDR 10-bit Colour

The Aurora 4K HDR screen material was specifically designed with the new HDR 10-bit 4K UHD discs in mind. The new BT2020 colour space on the HDR Blu-ray discs reproduces many more colours than the old REC709 Blu-ray colour space and the Aurora 4K material ensures that all colours are accurately reproduced, leading to more vibrant and life-like HD projection.

The perfect picture, regardless of the environment

Our specially engineered Ambient Light Rejection technology was developed to reject every bit of extra lightning, making your content appear crisp and sharp, even in brightly lit rooms. Ensure excess light doesn’t disturb your viewing while still delivering your content with sharper colors and better contrasts

Achieve the Ultimate Look with Colour and Brightness Remote-Controlled LEDs

EluneVision always aims to exceed the performance and value of our competitors, and the Aurora 4K NanoEdge screen is no exception. Set the ultimate mood for your room with the press of a button on the included RF remote, allowing you to control the color, brightness as well as the option of 6 color/brightness cycling modes. Unlike competitors which charge up to an additional $1000 for optional LED addition to their screen, the Aurora 4K NanoEdge screen comes with LED back-lighting as a free, standard feature.

Superior LED Back-Lighting for Increased Performance and Aesthetics

Given that EluneVision always aims to exceed the performance and value of our competitors, it was not enough to merely include an LED kit compared to competitors who charge extra for it – we also wanted to make sure our LEDs were implemented in a superior way. Standardizing the LEDs as an integral part of the screen means no stone was left unturned to make sure the LEDs worked ideally with the NanoEdge screen.

1. The EluneVision Aurora 4K NanoEdge fixed-frame screen uses higher density LEDs. A higher density of LEDs per linear foot is the key reason that the Aurora 4K NanoEdge screen produces an aura which is larger, smoother and of a much higher quality than so many of our competitors.

2. The extreme attention to detail for the NanoEdge screen means we placed the LED strips around the corners of the screen as well, with specially designed L-shaped corner-pieces. Compare this to the LED strips of more expensive competitors, who have no LEDs in the corner of the strips, leading to a dead spot effect in the corner of their screens.

3. Due to psycho-visual effects and way human vision works, when an image is surrounded by bright light in any color, the perceived contrast of the image within increases significantly.

Given that the LED back-lighting improves both the performance of the projection system as well as increasing the aesthetics of the room, it is not surprising that we have chosen to include it with the Aurora 4K NanoEdge screen as a free, standard feature. Our implementation of the LED back-lighting system in the Aurora 4K NanoEdge screen has met our goal of out-pacing the competition in value, performance, and aesthetics.

Integration with Home Automation Control Systems and Universal Remotes

With the optional IR LED controller, the Aurora 4K NanoEdge’s LEDs can be fully integrated into home automation systems. This means you will be able to change the LED settings with all of your favorite control systems such as Control 4, Elan, Crestron, etc.

Stunningly Beautiful NanoEdge Bezel

The bezel of the Aurora 4K UHD NanoEdge screen uses an ultra-thin all aluminum 10mm or 0.4” frame. The bezel is covered in ultra-black velour, which helps to soak up any stray light from the projector. The bezel gives the screen, and thus your room, a stunningly modern design aesthetic.

Reference 2D and 3D Performance

The Aurora 4K UHD series of screens is designed to maximize detail, resolution and uniformity for both 2D and 3D projection. To get the best 3D immersive experience, the screen must be free from artifacts, hot spots and textures. Any flaw in the material and in the reproduction will contribute to a loss of immersion and viewer fatigue due to increased cross talk.

Near Perfect Pixel Geometry

The extremely fine woven weave leaves pixel geometry perfectly intact. Why is this important? With 1080p projectors now standard and 4K projectors on the horizon, EluneVision’s material ensures that the effective resolution remains at 1080p, while other (more expensive) competitors degrade the pixel geometry to the point that the effective resolution is no longer even close to 1080p. Due to the fact that there is near-zero texturing and perfect preservation of detail clarity, the EluneVision Reference AudioWeave 4K material will perfectly resolve 4K resolution in both today’s high end and future 4K projectors, saving you a screen upgrade.

No Sparkles or Graininess – Complete Invisibility of Screen Material

Due to the use of a smooth and near perfect lambertian diffuser material, the screen has absolutely no sparkles. The screen was purposely engineered to disperse the light evenly in a hemispherical distribution, creating a perfect reproduction, as the director intended. The Reference Studio AudioWeave 4K material will easily pass any of the common sparkle tests, which include bright scenes in movies as well as sports such as hockey, football, etc. This means that viewer will always see the image displayed on the screen as the projector manufacturer intended, and will never see the annoying imperfections present on competitors’ screen materials.

Absolutely No Hot Spotting – 100% Screen Transparency

A big problem that you see with all but the best screens is an issue known as hot spotting. Hot spotting results in an area at the center of the screen with high glare and light, surrounded by a comparably darker image at the top, bottom and sides of the screen. As seen below, this results in a very unnatural image. This is not a phenomenon that only cheaper screens suffer from – there are countless examples of significantly more expensive Reference screens from competitors that suffer greatly from hot spotting, serving as a testament to EluneVision’s engineering efforts in perfecting the Reference Studio AudioWeave 4K NanoEdge screen.

Moire Free With All Projection Technologies

Moiré is typically an issue with all acoustic weave screens. The Aurora 4K material completely eliminates this issue. Moiré appears when the pattern of the weave matches the grid pattern of the projector. To resolve this issue, the material pattern is 15 degrees off the vertical so to completely remove moiré. Furthermore, the pattern of the AudioWeave 4K is so fine that it is often smaller than the projector pixel pattern, meaning yet another layer of protection against moiré.

The Aurora 4K material has been tested with LCD, DLP, D-ILA and SXRD projectors to ensure a moiré-free picture at various throw distances and viewing angles.

To the left is an example of how moiré can impact picture quality.  When you zoom in, you see that the competitor’s screen creates moiré on the woman’s dress, causing artifacting patterns that are not supposed to be on the image. This is due to the fact that their weave material is not rotated by 15 degrees, so the pixel structure is too closely aligned with the material’s weave. Furthermore, the moiré pattern also causes discoloration, as green hues are introduced on what is supposed to be a completely blue dress in the competitor’s image.

Reference-Class 2D and 3D Performance

The Aurora 4K material is designed to maximize detail, resolution and uniformity for both 2D and 3D projection. To get the best 3D immersive experience, the screen must be free from artifacts, hot spots and as texture-less as possible. Any flaw in the material and in the reproduction will contribute to a loss of immersion and viewer fatigue due to increased cross talk.

Aurora 4K material provides perfect white field uniformity due to the material’s Lambertian diffuser nature. The brightness will be even across the entire screen and there will not be areas of the screen which are brighter or dark to the viewer at any viewing angle. When projecting a pure white scene, the white level will be even from edge to edge, with absolutely no hot-spotting or texturing , demonstrating a reference level of performance and image quality.

Colour Neutrality and Accuracy

EluneVision’s new Aurora 4K material is designed specifically to achieve the highest level of color reproduction. To achieve this, the material is designed for a completely neutral color reproduction. The Lambertian diffuser property, in addition to a specially designed white base color, maintains color accuracy across the entire color gamut. Many other projection materials in the market today will exhibit a shift in hue, either to the blue, green or red. This creates an unnatural balance to the colors and will decrease the color uniformity and vibrancy.

Above, we see a demonstration of this phenomenon.  The top zoom-in shows the competitor’s screen versus our EluneVision Aurora 4K screen material. Note the color shifts that the competitor exhibits, as well as the minimization color shifts of the EluneVision Aurora 4K material.  This results in the color accuracy of the whites and the reds you see in the EluneVision Aurora 4K screen material image.

Ultra Wide Viewing Angle

Ultra Wide Viewing Angle

Due to the near perfect lambertian diffuser properties of the Aurora 4K material, the viewing angle is a full 180 degrees, allowing seats to be placed off axis without any changes in brightness or white field uniformity. The image on the Aurora 4K material is consistent from edge-to-edge at all viewing angles.

To demonstrate this, photos were taken and posted below (the images were not re-touched).  The first one shows a projected movie in a front view, while the second shows the movie at fairly extreme side view. Though the user would not normally sit this far off center, the photos below demonstrate the fact that in any way that you decide to arrange seating, the screen will perform with perfection from any view-point.  This performance extends to the height and location that you decide to mount the projector. Whether ceiling mounted and centered to the screen, or table mounted to far to the left/right of the screen, the image the screen projects back to the viewer will not degrade.

2. Superior Attention to Detail

At EluneVision, we take pride in every single aspect of our screens. This means that we think of ways to simplify the install process, to provide high quality materials and to give the maximum performance possible. Below are just some small examples:

1. Aircraft-grade aluminum is used in the made of all major parts, we keep the use of inferior plastic to a very minimum. This ensures high build quality, precision and longevity.

2. For installation, we have devised an magnetic attachment system which allows the screen to hug the wall on all 4 corners, giving a perfect look.

3. Many manufacturers leave the LED controller exposed; our box is covered by an aluminum box to protect the LED controller board.

4. White gloves as well as all necessary tools to put the screen together are included.

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