Seymour-Screen Excellence Brings to Market its First Acoustically Transparent Ambient Light-Rejecting Film Screen The Ambient-Visionaire Black 0.8MP Micro-Perf projection screen surface boasts a wide viewing angle, deep light absorption and is acoustically transparent. It is available in fixed-frame and motorized masking systems and in viewable image widths up to 210-inches. Ames, IA – August 30, 2021 – Made-in-the-USA film screen brand Seymour-Screen Excellence brings its expertise in acoustical transparency (AT) and ambient light-rejecting (ALR) film screens together for the first time with its Ambient-Visionaire Black 0.8MP. Available in various fixed-frame styles, the AT aspect allows for the center channel speaker (and room permitting, front mains) to be placed behind it for the utmost in dialogue and action realism, with its light-rejecting (ALR) aspect compensating for ambient conditions that otherwise compromise projected images. The screen surface is shipping now. The Black 0.8MP is a micro-perforated version of the company’s Ambient-Visionaire Black 0.9 gain ultra-wide ALR screen material. Manufactured at Seymour-Screen Excellence’s facility in Ames, Iowa, the acoustical transparency is made by precisely punching ~120 holes / inch2 (each 0.02-inch in diameter) into the 0.9 surface. While this spec is competitive with other brand’s similar offerings Seymour-Screen Excellence Managing Director Chris Seymour says “Seymour-Screen Excellence’s Black surfaces offer the most effective ambient light filtration available in an optical screen. With a deep background that absorbs 90% of ambient light from any direction, and an aggressive combination of carbon particles and stacked, dithered nano-mirrors, our screens deliver a 12x improvement in contrast ratios in environments that are otherwise unsuited to front projection use, even outdoors.”

RowOne Seating Now Reaches Dealers in Western US in Just 4 Days, Introduces New Home Entertainment Chair Styles at 2021 Nationwide PrimeTime Event Ann Arbor, MI – August 19, 2021 – Home entertainment seating company RowOne® is supporting their dealers with faster delivery and new seating options for home theater and beyond. The company has added a second warehouse and is taking to the road to promote this and more at the Nationwide PrimeTime event. Since first fulfilling orders in late 2020 from its Ann Arbor, Michigan warehouse, RowOne has been reaching any dealer in the Continental US within 10 business days. Now, a second warehouse has been added (Tacoma, Washington) making possible reaching western US dealers in as little as 4 business days. According to CEO Todd Girdis, “No other seating company in the channel is stocking inventory like we are or can deliver as quickly. On top of this our optional RowOne Last Mile Service ensures a convenient scheduled delivery and installation to a room of choice within a customer’s residence.” Introducing the Cortés Cortés is RowOne Seating’s new premiere chair that Girdis says “is born from consumer’s thirst for premium seating. This top grain leather/vinyl match chair has a more contemporary styling with some curvature, making it extremely stylish for home theaters, multipurpose entertainment rooms, media rooms, bonus rooms and more.” Cortés also incorporates some new tech features. Featured is a full power headrest independent of the power recline feature. It is also the first in the industry available with multiple base rail and cupholder lighting color options (6 color choices as opposed to the standard blue).