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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: "Vyenna", VA
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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
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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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
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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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 04:05 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 09:14 PM. |
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#54 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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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 09:36 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: "Vyenna", VA
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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
Location: Kentucky
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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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Join Date: Jun 2002
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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
Location: Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
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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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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Canada
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esc, Freakin awesome! Seeing your HT being built from the ground up is very cool. ![]() As for seeing the final results.. ![]() |
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Oakdale, CT USA
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more pics coming any month now!! Quote:
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I am finally posting some more pics.
The reason it has taken so long for me to get more pictures up is that I have not been able to take any pictures of my screen in action that I have been happy with. I borrowed a 5.1 megapixel camera from a friend and I took a few OK pictures with it that I will post, but overall I am very disappointed because they do not show off the true quality of the image that my proj/screen produces. I cannot find a decent setting for taking pics of my screen. What the hell camera setting do you use ??? :S I finally had some spare time, so I've edited together a whack of new pics and comments so here's some more eye candy ! When you first walk downstairs, you see the 2 DVD racks which hold my 900+ DVDs and HD DVDs. Here's hoping for that thousandth DVD by this christmas. ![]() New Pic added 10/29/07 Last edited by esc : 10-29-2007 at 08:55 AM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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Outside The Theater
Hanging out around the DVDs racks are Jedi Master Yoda and Han Solo in Carbonite. I got the Yoda print from a good friend as a Christmas present back in 1999. Now Yoda helps guard my DVDs. Its one of those posters where the picture is composed of 1000 various still frames. All the teeny pics are of Yoda and Degobagh from Episode 5 and 6. Han in carbonite sits between the DVD racks along with his certificate of authenticity. Also hanging around the DVDs are my sweet little 'Space Egg', its WARNING sign, and a hand made Frank Mask from Donnie Darko. I do not have any display cases for the egg or Frank as yet, so they are not really on full display yet and are kind of burried behind some stacks of DVDs and computer junk. I've hit a speed bump with my funding for the theater, so $200 for a couple plastic or glass cases is not a high priority right now. Last edited by esc : 02-20-2007 at 04:40 PM. |
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oh! and special thanks must go out to DanishDVDfreak who hooked me up with the .jpg of the Space Egg sign in the first place which I then had made into a full sized metal sign.
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#77 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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Turn to the right and you'll see the door to the theater along with my little NECA Extreme Headknockers.
Not pictured : Staypuft Marshmallow Man, Black & White Marv - Sin City Coming soon : The Crow, Pinhead, SAW Puppet guy, Mr Oogie Boogie (Nighmare B4 Xmas), Stripe (Gremlins), Capt Jack Sparrow, DareDevil, Elektra, Cornholio, HULK. |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: camrose, alberta, canada
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THE HARDWARE
The in wall component rack includes, from top shelf to bottom ... - MonoPrice 5X1 HDMI Switcher / Cheap WalMart Component Switcher for the video game systems - Crystal XBOX / 3 controllers - Nintendo Wii, 4 Wiimotes & Nunchucks / Silver Ltd Ed. PS2 - Motorola HDTV cable receiver (1080i HD via DVI to HDMI adapter, run to the HDMI switcher and out to the projector) - Toshiba HD A1 HD DVD player (HDMI) - Toshiba Region 0, HDMI, PAL upconverting single disc DVD Player - Panasonic S77S, Region 1, HDMI upconverting single disc DVD player - Panasonic 5 Disc DVD player (used as a multi-disc CD player) - The Remotes (12 of them, including light dimmer remote and front fan/air purifier remote) oh what the heck... in order from left to right on the remote shelf: fan remote,hdmi switcher remote,light remote,proj,panasonic dvd,toshiba R0 dvd,hddvd,cable receiver,technics receiver,panasonic 5disc cd player,vcr,LD - Sharp VCR (really just a placeholder so the rack does not have an empty spot) - An Ancient Pioneer LaserDisc player (another placeholder for now... I have no LD's!) - Technics SA DX1040 5.1 DTS/DD Receiver (upgrading to a Denon AVR3806 any year now...) most of the cableing is Monster (I couldn't live without my 36ft MonsterBass400 cable running to my sub), and all 200ft of the speaker wire is Knu Konceptz Klear Blu 12 Gauge Wire I absolutely recommend the stuff[current pic coming soon] Last edited by esc : 02-21-2007 at 06:33 AM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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The Hardware
The proj up on the celing. (also pictured is my loveseat and chair in the back of the theater on the riser and my new table sticking out from between the two seats) Sony HS60 720p/1080i LCD Projector. 16:9 1280X720 10000:1 contrast ratio via Adjustable Iris technology 2000:1 contrast ratio with Adjustable Iris set to Off 1200 Lumens in full bulb mode 23db fan noise Weight 6KG Manual Focus/Zoom Manual Lens Shift Screen Door : non existent (unless you are 3-4 feet away from the screen) Last edited by esc : 02-28-2007 at 08:48 PM. |
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