Carada is proud to announce the Masquerade™ - our automated masking system that can be installed over your Carada screen as well as many other brands of fixed frame projection screens, or even over your own DIY screen! The Masquerade™ is a single-motor system with a native aspect ratio of 16:9 with top and bottom masks that will eliminate those annoying black bars on blockbuster films like Spiderman, The Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Ultimatum, and many other exciting widescreen movies.
The Masquerade™ is a beautifully engineered system, handcrafted with the precision and attention to detail that Carada is well known for. Some of the other masking systems currently on the market have various brackets and bolts visible on their exteriors, have flat-faced frames that are unattractively butted or overlapped at the corners, and are non-symmetrical by design (the top, bottom, and side pieces are of different widths). Sure they do the job they're designed to do, but when the lights come up frankly they arent much to look at. Our masking system has no unsightly brackets or bolt heads visible from the outside of the fascia. The frame is fully symmetrical with a nice beveled front fascia which is precisely mitered at the corners, and comes standard with our Black Hole™ trim (an extra-cost option on some competitors systems!) Simply put, the Masquerade™ will look as beautiful as the rest of your theater. And the Masquerade™ is built to last with custom-designed heavy-duty aluminum extrusions, featuring SOMFYs new ultra-quiet Sonesse 50 tubular motor. SOMFY motors are widely used in the world's leading brands of projection screens, masking systems, and other high-end home automation products, and the Sonesse motor will give you quiet, trouble-free performance for years to come.
The Masquerade™ is easy to install by design. It is shipped in four pieces (all in one shipping container) which makes getting the system into tight entryways a breeze. The system is then assembled one piece at a time directly onto your wall over your existing projection screen. While it is possible for just one person to install the Masquerade™, we strongly recommend a second person help with lifting the heavier top and bottom structures. Minimal skill and tools are needed for the installation.
The Masquerade™ is a fully integrated design. Some masking systems on the market come without a remote control (they come with a basic up/down wall switch instead that must be hard-wired to the system). If you want a remote control with those systems you have to pay EXTRA for that option, and what you get with the remote is an ugly metal electrical box roughly the size of a brick, and an Infrared sensor with a long wire attached. You must find a place to stash the metal box, find a place to mount the infrared sensor somewhere in your room, and run wires from these components back to the masking system. Yuck!
The Masquerade™ has all controls built into the system, and the Infrared sensor is integrated into the frame for an attractive, hassle-free installation. The remote itself is elegantly simple and effective, with dedicated buttons for the 16:9 and 2.35:1 aspect ratios, and Jog buttons that allow you to easily adjust the mask positions for other less common aspect ratios (like 2.20:1, 2.70:1 etc).
We worked closely with packaging engineers to design an innovative packaging solution that will protect your Masquerade™ from the most grueling shipping conditions, ensuring that it arrives at your home in the same pristine condition that it leaves Carada. We use a custom virgin linerboard crate with 1 1/8 thick plywood end caps, for a container MANY times stronger than heavy duty corrugated boxes, yet far lighter, smaller, and less costly than crates built from plywood and 2x4s. The masking system is suspending inside the crate with ample clearance on all sides so that the beautiful Black Hole™ trim is protected from the crate itself. The result is an incredibly strong package with the crate acting as the exoskeleton, and the rigid aluminum structure of the masking system itself acting as the endoskeleton. Thanks to this innovative packaging solution, systems with an outside frame width of less than 113.5 can be shipped via economical FedEx Ground service. Systems with outside frame widths greater than 113.5 will ship via FedEx Freight, yet are still less expensive to ship than massive wooden crates, and far easier to handle once in your home (no forklift necessary!)
Finally, as youve come to expect from Carada, the Masquerade™ is an extraordinary value. For example, a Masquerade™ made to fit one of the most popular sizes of home theater screens, a 110 diagonal, is just $2,749.98! And remember that price includes the custom infrared remote and our Black Hole™ trim.
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How to make your own DIY multiformat maksing system for a fixed frame screen part 1by beamaxscreens13,683 views
This configuration is perfect for someone who wants a masking system for their pre-existing 1.78:1 screen OR for someone who simply prefers a 1.78:1 system because they watch a lot of Sports and other HDTV content, and/or play video games on their system. Yes they “lose inches” on widescreen movies but they “gain inches” on 1.78:1 content.
But there are plenty of people who want the type of system you're describing as well, which is why we offer the Masquerade CIH (see our website). :-)
CaradaScreens 5 months ago