Stewart Filmscreen To Demonstrate Firehawk, Engineered Specifically For Single-Chip DLP Projector Systems

December 21. 2001

Stewart Filmscreen Corporation announces a new development coming soon in their line of flexible front projection screens, the FireHawk. Utilizing the same conceptual design of Stewart's most popular front projection home theatre screen, the GrayHawk, the FireHawk will increase black levels, shadow detailing, and color saturation, especially for DLPô projectors.""Project FireHawk,"" as Don Stewart, Vice President of Stewart Filmscreen calls it, has a ""mission."" The mission of the FireHawk is to maximize screen image brightness at a 40-percent peak foot-Lambert increase over all existing gray screens for the DLP systems. The screen also preserves image contrast by dampening room cross-light reflection by as much as 90 percent (currently measured against a worse case scenario with standard matte white surface in an all white room environment). FireHawk also maximizes the screen's passive black level for DLP projectors, meeting that of Stewart's popular GrayHawk material, engineered for D-ILAÆ and LCD projection systems.Currently FireHawk is undergoing beta testing. Stewart Filmscreen Corporation anticipates this screen to hit the market late January 2002. FireHawk will be available in fixed and retractable models with optional MicroPerf.The first public demonstration will occur January 8-11 in Las Vegas, at the 2002 International CES.For more information about Stewart Filmscreen, visit www.stewartfilm.com.

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