Essential Install | Display Technologies: Sponsored Section
Projection Innovation
High quality home entertainment expert, Neil Davidson, explains that
mounting a projector has a new champion, the Vertical Mirror Mount.
Brackets and Mounts. Every project needs them, but they
are hardly the most exciting part of the proposal. These
are functional items and often the goal is to get that
functionality at the lowest possible cost. If the bracket mounts
the projector to the ceiling, is there much else that it can do?
From a functional perspective, I guess that there
really isn’t much more that brackets and mounts can
do. If the projector stays on the ceiling, then the mount
has met its purpose, but having seen a lot of projectors
being mounted to ceilings over the years, I couldn’t help
wondering if there wasn’t some way of doing things
better? When I saw the size of the new generation of
laser light source projectors, I felt that there was a great
opportunity to create a better solution.
This is a list of typical challenges I’ve noted installers
encounter over the years:
1. Awkward ‘universal’ solutions that take a couple of
hours labour to setup and then try to get balanced on
the projector.
2. Long drop poles and brackets that are barely fi t for purpose
– especially with the large size of the new laser projectors.
3. Visually unappealing.
4. Do nothing to help enable a sale when conditions are more
challenging such as on the edge of the lens throw ratio.
At Display Technologies’ production facility in
Yorkshire, we have invested heavily in CNC and advanced
manufacturing equipment to enable us to quickly produce
custom sized screens and we are proud to have recently
launched our fi rst projector mounting solution, the Vertical
Mirror Mount or VMM.
The Vertical Mirror
Mount brings some
much needed
innovation into
projector mounting
The VMM allows the projector to be mounted vertically
on a wall. We have four models to allow for mounting in
room or in a booth and for the projector to be mounted
with the lens pointing up or down. This mounting method
brings many advantages that address the issues seen with
regular brackets:
1. Dedicated mounting plate machined specifi cally for the
projector being used. Fitted in minutes, not hours.
2. Great fl exibility in the install height of the projector. No
need to worry about extension poles or weight as the
unit is securely fi xed to the wall.
3. Premium aluminium mount is largely hidden by the
projector. Custom fi nishes available on request.
4. Enables sales of larger screens! Mounting on the wall gains
the full length of the projector plus additional distance
can be gained by increasing the lens to mirror distance.
5. Enables easy integration into the room – easy to build into
a cabinet or build out at the rear of the room with only
the height of the projector to encroach on the cinema.
The VMM looks like it might be really complex to
setup, but in fact is straightforward. Very simply, the base
section of the system is bolted to the wall, the mounting
plate is bolted to the projector and then hung on to the
base. When switched on for the fi rst time, there will likely
be some keystone and rotation errors, so simple screw
adjustments remove rotation error and left right keystone.
Finally, the angle of the mirror is adjusted to remove any
vertical keystone. What is critical is that this adjustment is
made against a solid wall, normally at a very accessible
height so is much easier than trying to do the same thing
with a wobbly ceiling mount!
In a nutshell,
no other projector
mounting solution
offers