Silver Ticket STR-169100 vs Akia Screens AK-NB100H1
Two budget 100" fixed frames — which should you buy?
Try both in a build →Silver Ticket STR-169100 in the slot, Akia Screens AK-NB100H1 one swap away.
The short answer
Buy the Akia AK-NB100H1 on price — $199 tracked today is the cheaper of the two, against $230, for the same 100" 16:9 fixed-frame matte-white job, though its 180° viewing-angle figure cannot be read against Silver Ticket's 80° — that field stores degrees from center, and 180 is a full cone. Buy the Silver Ticket STR-169100 for the sheet that lands in our convention: a 1.1 gain with an 80° half-gain angle from center, and a stated wall-mount install method where Akia's is unstated in our data.
As tracked by Home Theater Builder: the Silver Ticket STR-169100 tracks at $230; the Akia Screens AK-NB100H1 at $199.How we verify this data →
Same job on paper: 100-inch, 16:9, fixed-frame, matte white, $31 apart as tracked today. The gain and viewing-cone figures are where the two sheets stop agreeing, and neither number should be read at face value alone.
Specifications · side by side · per-field provenance
● SOURCE-TRACKED
Spec
Silver Ticket STR-169100
Akia Screens AK-NB100H1
Price
$230
$199
Brand
Silver Ticket
Akia Screens
Screen type
fixed frame
fixed frame
Installation
wall mount
not stated
Diagonal (in)
100
100
Aspect ratio
16:9
16:9
Viewable width (in)
87.125
87.2
Viewable height (in)
49
49
Gain
1.1
1.3
Material type
matte white
matte white
Half-gain angle (°)
80
180
Washable
Yes
not stated
Frame material
aluminum
not stated
Frame color
black
not stated
Weight (lbs)
27
not stated
Shaded rows differ · green dot = lab-measured · amber = manufacturer-verified · blue = retailer/community-reported · grey = estimated · “not stated” means exactly that
Reading the numbers honestly
The two viewing-angle figures are not on the same scale, so they cannot be read against each other as printed. Our half-gain angle field stores degrees FROM CENTER: Silver Ticket's 80° is that figure (the same property it also publishes as a 160° cone), while the Akia row carries 180° — a value no off-center half-angle can take, since 90° from center is the physical limit. Read as a full cone instead, 180° sits against Silver Ticket's 160°, a far smaller difference than the printed 180-against-80 suggests, so we flag the field rather than rank it. The gains, 1.1 against 1.3, are both the manufacturer's own numbers with no independent measurement context attached.
The verdict
Buy the Akia AK-NB100H1 on price — $199 tracked today is the cheaper of the two, against $230, for the same 100" 16:9 fixed-frame matte-white job, though its 180° viewing-angle figure cannot be read against Silver Ticket's 80° — that field stores degrees from center, and 180 is a full cone. Buy the Silver Ticket STR-169100 for the sheet that lands in our convention: a 1.1 gain with an 80° half-gain angle from center, and a stated wall-mount install method where Akia's is unstated in our data.
Lowest tracked priceAkia Screens AK-NB100H1 — The same stated 100" 16:9 fixed-frame job for less as tracked today ($199 vs $230).
A viewing-angle figure you can useSilver Ticket STR-169100 — Silver Ticket's 80° is a half-gain angle from center, the convention this field uses; the Akia row carries 180°, which no off-center half-angle can be — it reads as a full cone recorded in an off-center field, so the two are not comparable as printed.
Knowing the install method before you buySilver Ticket STR-169100 — Silver Ticket states a wall_mount installation; Akia's install method is unstated in our data.
Both are fixed-frame, matte-white, 100" 16:9 screens — the same core job — $230 (Silver Ticket) vs $199 (Akia) as tracked today, a $31 gap.
The two half-gain angles are not on one scale and we say so instead of ranking them: the field stores degrees from center, Silver Ticket's 80° is that figure (published elsewhere by the maker as a 160° cone), and the Akia row's 180° exceeds the 90° physical limit for an off-center angle — it reads as a full cone recorded in an off-center field. Gains are 1.1 against 1.3, both the manufacturer's own numbers with no independent measurement context.
Silver Ticket states its wall_mount installation method; Akia's install method is unstated in our data.
Neither model states whether it's acoustically transparent — both fields are UNSTATED in our data, a shared gap rather than either sheet stating a no.
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