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Join Date: Jun 2002
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esc's Home Theater Odyssey
Seeing this got me excited. This must be awesome to work on! (p.s. the link doesn't point to the "super hottie" carpet installer )
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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teehee the pics can be slightly misleading too. the room is about 13' X 17'. Some of the pics make it look a bit smaller, especially with the overstuffed furniture. more pics to come soon .... |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Puttied, sanded, and primed wall, ready for another screen attempt plus tons of drywall dust on the lens.
After priming the wall, I painted it and then put up some cheap light-grey paint as a temp screen for a few weeks until my Da-Lite arrived. Last edited by esc : 08-02-2006 at 03:05 PM. |
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Here's a shot of the screen once I got the rest of the curtains up. The brightness has been tweaked out as the screen is too reflective to get a decent picture with the flash on and the pic originally just looked like a big white rectangle in the middle of a bunch of black.
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One of the first things I watched with a bunch of people was the NHL Stanley Cup .... booooo! Edmonton lost!
![]() Once again, the cheap camera is terrible at picking up images on the screen. Last edited by esc : 07-16-2006 at 08:14 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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The rack.
If you look closely, yes, there is a christmas tree behind the Xbox. I'll have a full hardware list and a few more pics up soon. The room is just about done and only needs a few finishing touches like movie posters. Last edited by esc : 07-16-2006 at 08:36 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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absolutely beautiful!! and even more impressive that you built it yourself.
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On a mission from God Join Date: Feb 2001
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Very nice, and I am impressed that you did it all yourself (well, sounds like a little help from your friends
. Anyway, if nothing else, you should be proud of accomplishing a home renovation task such as this.
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Loves Yellow Subtitles Join Date: Jun 2003
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Is the curtain material leather?
P.S. As one person who had trouble taking pics of their HT to another; go down to Wal-Mart and buy yourself a 5mp camera. Take your pics. Post them. And then return the camera. Nice HTs like yours must be well documented. ![]()
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: New Jersey, USA
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I can't believe I never saw this thread before. Kudos!!!
Now I wish I had taken pics of the "progress" of my HT. I also wish I had done something similar with the audio equipment, but I guess I didn't feel like cutting a hole on the side of the closet to make an inwall audio rack...now I wish I did! Awesome! ![]() |
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I promise I'll get a whole whack of new pics up soon, including some HDDVD pics. I've been busy with work and dogs and traveling and yardwork and picking apples for pies and making pies, etc. Quote:
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: gta|brampton
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Great job...looks amazing, congrats....!!!
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Very impressive display of documenting the project, I do like however a few things that you have done at that is the raised seating platform, and the electronics system rack display. The screen is all wrong, don’t get me wrong here mate, it looks fantastic, but loudspeakers, properly belong behind the screen, a (perforated screen) that is! I could see all the trouble you was going though to do everything else, but making a false wall for the loudspeakers to be mounted within in it, much like the THX baffle wall, and then cover the wall with (high frequency absorbent material) and then fit the screen over it. You would also need an access way to get behind the screen to remove loudspeakers, in the unlikely event that one or more needs to have a bass mid or HF tweeter replaced, or sub bass! That is how the real THX sound system looks, behind the baffle wall itself, the entire fitting is covered with (pink panther) or (rock wool) to absorb the sound behind it, but, but the front wall between the loudspeakers and the screen uses a material that is slightly less in thickness for the (high frequency absorbent) to stop high frequencies bouncing of the hard parallel surface and the screen, thus creating a bright harsh sound! If you watch the video interviews about Tom Holman in this section of the (hardware) thread you’ll twig on mate. I’ll post my home cinema up sometime soon, but isn’t has no where as good as yours, I mean, if I had a video projector, I could really finish it off! Tom Holman Video interview Mr. Tomlinson Holman THX Video interview and more!
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