What the maker puts in writing
- “110-inch Diagonal, 16:9 Aspect Ratio. View Size: 54.7” H x 96.7” W. Overall Size: 54.7” H x 96.7” W x 1.3” D. CineGrey 3D ALR projection screen features a 1.2 gain ambient light rejecting surface with ISF-certified color accuracy, enhanced contrast, and 4K HDR compatibility”
- “Ceiling Ambient Light Rejecting Material (CLR/ALR) CineGrey 3D with 65% rejection ratio and Features a 90° Viewing Angle with 1.2 Gain… compatible with Standard Throw Projectors. (Not Compatible With Ultra-short/Short Throw or Triple Laser Projectors)”
- “Award-winning EDGE FREE Design for a modern, frameless look. Includes a lightweight, easy-to-assemble 6-piece split aluminum frame… Setup and installation videos available on the Elite Screens website” — printed twice, as bullets 3 and 4
- “2-year Manufacturer’s /3-year-ENR-G enhanced warranty… Lifetime Tech Support”
Edge free means the two sizes are the same number
View Size: 54.7” H × 96.7” W. Overall Size: 54.7” H × 96.7” W × 1.3” D.
Identical, because there is no frame margin.
Which is the whole argument against its stablemate at the same price:
Aeon (this) — $540 — viewing 54.7 × 96.7 in — overall 54.7 × 96.7 × 1.3 in — edge free
Sable Frame — $540 — viewing 54.0 × 96.0 in — overall 58.7 × 100.6 × 1.6 in — 2.36 in black velvet frame
So the Sable’s border adds 4.7 inches of height and 4.6 of width. On the same wall, this gives a slightly larger picture in a smaller footprint, and reads visually as a flat panel rather than a framed screen.
What you give up is what the velvet does. A projector is set slightly larger than the screen so no edge falls short; that excess is overshoot, and on a reflective border it bounces into the room and comes back as a wash that lifts the black level. Velvet absorbs it.
Tight wall, or the flat-panel look: this. Dark room where perceived black matters: the Sable.
Sixty-five percent, which the Sable does not publish
CineGrey 3D with 65% rejection ratio.
The number the category exists for, and only this and the Akia at $331.54 publish it — both for the same material.
It means the surface returns only about 35 percent of the ambient light arriving off-axis, chiefly from above, while still reflecting the projector’s light arriving roughly horizontally.
In practice that is what lets a projector work with a lamp on or a curtain open rather than only in the dark. The bullet names the settings honestly: “best for family rooms, educational facilities, conference rooms or any applications in which incident light is a factor.”
Read it with the other two figures. 1.2 gain is 20 percent brighter on axis than matt white. The 90° viewing angle is the cost of that brightness — it comes from concentrating light into a narrower cone, so beyond 45 degrees either side the picture dims.
Standard throw only, and not triple laser
Compatible with Standard Throw Projectors. (Not Compatible With Ultra-short/Short Throw or Triple Laser Projectors.)
The throw restriction is geometric. This material is angular reflective: it accepts light arriving roughly horizontally and rejects light arriving from above, which is where room lighting comes from. An ultra-short-throw projector sits below the screen and fires steeply upward — from the direction the surface is built to reject.
Elite’s own Aeon CLR3 at $1,293 is the opposite design, built for that geometry, with a 170° viewing angle instead of 90.
The triple-laser restriction is optical, and unexplained here. The generally accepted reason is speckle: three very narrow spectral lines of coherent light striking a structured surface interfere with themselves, producing a fine visible shimmer.
Bullets three and four are the same paragraph
Word for word, including the closing sentence about installation videos.
So the effective list is four bullets, not five — and what the duplication costs is a bullet that could have carried what this listing omits and its stablemates publish: a tensioning method, or a flame standard.
The split aluminum frame and the videos
Six-piece split aluminum means the frame ships flat and assembles with corner joints, which on a screen nearly eight feet wide is the difference between a parcel and a freight delivery. At 9,498 g this is the lightest screen on the shelf.
And setup and installation videos available on the Elite Screens website is the sort of thing worth having on a product you assemble once, awkwardly, on a wall.
The warranty is the same bullet all three Elite screens here carry: two years, three for educational, non-profit, religious or government buyers, with lifetime tech support. The Akia publishes none.
What is not published
No tensioning method. The bullet says “all necessary installation and hanging hardware” — where the Akia publishes a “spring tension system” and the Sable publishes “adjustable fix plates that achieve an ultra flat projection surface without wrinkles or waves”.
That matters more on an ALR screen than on matt white: the structure is directional, so a ripple changes the local angle at which light is accepted and produces a visibly brighter or darker stripe across the picture, which no projector adjustment removes.
No flame standard, where the Akia publishes NFPA 701 — relevant for a classroom, church hall or conference room, which this bullet names as target settings.
No wall substrate, where the Akia specifies wood stud walls.
No GREENGUARD certification stated, where the Akia and the Sable both publish UL 2818 GREENGUARD and GREENGUARD GOLD for low chemical emissions. This publishes ISF only.
Catalog dimensions: 2446 × 33 × 1382 mm — converting to 96.3 × 1.3 × 54.4 inches against the bullet’s 96.7 × 1.3 × 54.7. Within a few millimeters, which is close enough to plan from.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
