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Continuing the planning for a small single screen dine-in in the Caribbean. By small, I mean really small. Max we're going for is 65 seats. Maybe 30 foot screen. Short throw, maybe 27ft. We would be the only theater of any kind on our island, so would like to do second run. What would be the most economical choice of projectors to make this happen. I know the digitals run 45k and up and am looking for some advice as this price seems high for such a small place.

I've had off the record conversations with people at both NEC and Christie about their new small venue (30ft max screen width). Look for the .68" DLPs to clock in right around $30k with server included, delivery beginning in December.

We have 5 screens that are all around 28ft wide and are going to convert two of the screens into one that is ~55ft wide. On that one, we are going to go with a 1.2" DLP based projector. On the remaining three, we will go for the .68"ers.