When we built our room I went to Lowes, and asked them to make a flat black paint... When my friend was painting the room with a sprayer it was pretty hard due to lighting, but after it dried it was not as light absorbing as i wanted. My solution was to get the stickon velvet that comes in a roll, and is used in telescopes. I used this for the first couple of feet on the ceiling and it worked out great IMO. I used Jo Annes triple velvet for my soffits, and framing around the screen wall.
Found my way here too. I layed out half my floor tiles yesterday and this morning, with no lamps on and shades closed I stepped on my dog! That's right, the little critter merged with the floor in an unexpected way. That tells me that the image, ones up and running again, really will make a litte difference as the black painted ceiling did. I need blacked out curtains too and know what to get and where.
do you get any sag?
That sounds great that you found a solution and are moving forward. How about posting a pic of the progress?
One thing I have found is that when you have a black hole it is hard to take pictures that really depict it unless you have some photography skillz. I lucked out and a friend was over one day and took some pics for me (he is a professional photographer).
Seems you developed wide angle vision.. Soon your will leave nose marks on the screen..
The image is so clean that lacks noise and pixels that the room sucks me further and further into the screen.
Pictures are worth more than a 1000 words..