A quick and dirty look at E-shift and Screen door

All of these are at 1080p, i was about to watch Mission Impossible 2 from a bluray triple box set and this is the pre-credits pause of the Paramount logo. It's not the best transfer or anything and just happened to be what i was about to watch and I wondered if I could show what I see with my mobile. A HTC U11 which is acceptable as a camera on a phone, though a few years old now. The cinema was exactly as i was about to watch, so i didn't bring the lights up, just snapped a few pics and used a tape measure to make it reasonably even, though there is variation in tilt and quick user snaps!

FYI full images in a clicker at the bottom!

Two images taken at 12" (30cm from the screen)

I thought the best way to remember the settings was to take a shot of the setting, which also is at 12" (30cm)

This is closer to my viewing distance, though was taken from the arm of my laz-y-boy so about 11' (3.3m) rather than the 12'-13' of my head depending on angle of recline!

A last shot,

My Conclusions

At close distance you can certainly see pixel structure, though E-shift seems to lessen this, even at close distance.

My screen also exhibits a texture when close up, it's an acoustic screen and so has to let sound through some how. It's a woven texture rather than perforated and i think in this case is a very good pairing to the Epson because it makes any pixel structure even less visible than a flat plain screen.

It is also a while since i've given my PJ a tune up as such it is possible that the focus may have drifted a touch, it certainly was pin sharp when i set things up and I notice a big jump in sharpness with a 4K UHD which may counter this. However one trick to minimise screen door / pixel structure and grain is a very slight softening of focus!