While I’m not a big fan of Do-It-Yourself projection screens, Engadget has posted an amazingly inexpensive way to build your own 2.35:1 screen for home cinema purposes. Their total cost of materials was around $35 USD, which is about one-third of the cost of most DIY screens, making this much more economic as opposed to buying a screen. Still despite the low cost, the black-out cloth used does not perform as well as a vinyl screen by screen manufacturers, and really should be seen more as a temporary fix than a permanent solution. If you are handy with tools, this might be a fun project to do on the upcoming Labor Day weekend.

[Read How-To: Make a custom projector screen]

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