Has anyone ever considered a phosphorescent RGB Dot matrix screen? If you printed thousands of tiny dots of color on a dark/non-reflective screen. if the dots were small enough you really wouldn't notice them, they'd just blend into the surrounding color. when the pixel lit up the colored dots would reflect the color of the pixel that was shining on them brightly. when I say really tiny, I mean like 350X350 dpi for each color arranged in a matrix that would equally disperse the different colored dots. this could be achieved by using a sophisticated banner printer. some of the larger ones can print over 70" wide, with more than ten color reservoirs. let me know what you all think?


EDIT: Please excuse incoherentness of this post i just worked a 12 hr midnight shift and really ought to be in bed. if anyone can understand what i'm trying to say in this post reply and let me know what you think of my idea thanks

I'm not sure this is too much of a new idea. A year or so ago people were talking about the new "black screens" that were out. It made using front projection in daylight possible (with decent results). There were a few people that worked on just what was needed to add to the paint in order to achieve the results. Pyromethean I believe was the LL members name that first started developing something DIY. In the end, MississippiMan and pb_maxxx were working for a DIY mix that there were selling, and presumablely still are. I actually purchased a mix from him, but have not yet made my screen. I will be finishing up my theather this winter and am looking at various options for screens, including a da-lite high power. My father will perhaps be visiting this coming week, and he had some experience with spray painting so perhaps between the two of us I can get a sample made... weather permitting. Here are a couple of threads you can read, I think this is what you were thinking about...

http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13023

http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16526

cheers.
gs

edit: I believe this is the "monster" thread on the subject:
http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2762

Yeah, I originally thought that this might work. But as I continued to think about it I realized that it would only work if the RGB dots were the same size as the lcd pixels on screen and aligned perfectly. If this were the case, then 2/3rds of ambient light would be absorbed but the lcd brightness would not be affected at all. Your contrast would improve remarkebly. You could watch it in ambient lighting.

However, if the RGB dots are much smaller than the lcd pixels on screen, then each lcd pixel would have 2/3rds of its brightness absorbed, also. So the light from the red pixels would fall upon red, green, and blue dots. Then the green and blue dots would absorb the red light. The only light reflected would be the red light falling on the red dot. Same with the other colors.

the net result would be the image would decrease by 2/3rds and the ambient lighting would decrease by 2/3rds. No real effect on contrast. You could achieve the same result with a gray screen.