I was just looking for some feedback here. I've recently purchased another home and will be building another theater... The room is already "built". I'll try to explain it as best I can here. The room is on the 2nd floor over a 3 car garage. The floor space of the room is 20'6" wide (across the screen wall) and 19'4" long (from the entry to the screen wall) with a max ceiling height of 11 feet. There is a hip roof that angles in 3 of the walls. The 2 side walls begin a 45 degree slope to the ceiling at about 5 feet high. The screen wall begins a 45 degree slope to the ceiling at about 3 feet high. Now, the angled walls are perfect for the pyramid I plan on turning the room into, but I lose space in the room because of them. The side walls are no issue at all. It's the screen wall that is forcing some issues and decisions. If I leave the screen wall where it is set up for now, using the riser calculator dimensions (my riser is set at 13 inches because of how the entry comes into the room), I lose about 46 inches of depth in the room because of the screen and where it needs to be placed. Which puts the first row of seating about 10 feet from a 120" screen and the second row at 15.5 feet away. The measurements using the calculator are as follows:
Bottom of screen to the floor: 28 inches
Top of screen height: 87 inches
Floor space (depth) lost to the screen and wall angle: 46 inches
Riser depth (to accomodate a couch): 5.5 feet
Distance from screen to first row seated eyes: 10 feet
Is this too close to a 120 inch screen from the first row? I will be utilizing a 1080p projector.
Lower isn't a problem PENDING that the back row is as clear a view as possible. I myself like it lower rather than high. There are a lot of "rules" out there, but a lot really comes down to personal preference.
Thanks Jason... the back row riser is 13 inches high, so as long as I didn't pick any really tall theater seats, I would think it should be ok. I was concerned about the angle of view from the back row being slightly higher than mid-screen, but looking at my monitor, I don't think that will be an issue either... actually, gonna go home and figure out where my back row eye level currently is...
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Originally Posted by Todd_zilla /forum/post/14353526
Could I get away with placing the bottom of the screen 16 inches from the floor? That would place the eye line of the first row of seating about 1/3 of the way up the screen and the 2nd row would be just higher than midway up the screen... And give me 11 feet from the screen to the first row, moving me up to a 1.3 ratio... Is that screen too low? especially for the back row?
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In a home theater, you can strive for every-row vision, and this generally means that the risers will be "stadium level" or approximately 1 foot high ordinary riser levels for seating and stairs is approximately 6 to 8 inches). If you have multiple rows of seats in your home theater, and every-row vision isn't possible, then make sure you can stagger the seats for maximum visibility.
I have the RS1 and a 120 wide screen (2.35) and sit about 11 feet away. Personally, I wish I had set it up so that either I sat farther away or made the screen a little smaller. I dont have any issues with pixels but I prefer sitting farther back in a theater and wish I could do it in mine HT. Thats my preference, I usually sit far back in the theater but I also see people sitting in the first row
That is close, ~ 1.0 SW, but I think this is the first time I've EVER heard someone report that they wish they had gotten a smaller screen; it's always been the other way around.
I know! That's heresy for this forum section. A 120" wide scope screen is the same as ~100" 16:9 diagonal. When I get my new house in a few months (hopefully, if escrow doesn't fall through) I'm installing a 9' wide 16:9 screen. The house has a 16'x10' room which will be barely enough. I only dread that the screen might have to be the HP, so I'll have to sit directly in the middle of the screen and not to the side like I like to. That's the whole reason why I like 1.0 gain, you can sit at the sides and not have any light drop off. I plan on sitting ~8' away or so.
Hmmm... I guess I could mount the center channel above and angle it down or install it on the floor and angle it up. I won't do the perf screen. If I mount above the screen, I'll either have to incorporate the speaker into the "pyramid" structure, or "carve" out space for it. The only issue I can think of installing it above, however, is that the center channel speaker has a powered sub integrated into the top of the speaker. The speaker settings for the front and center are set to small, however, so I don't know if the sub even plays or not... anybody know? Would it matter? Btw, the center channel is not bi-polar, so the room behind the speaker won't matter.
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That is close, ~ 1.0 SW, but I think this is the first time I've EVER heard someone report that they wish they had gotten a smaller screen; it's always been the other way around.
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Originally Posted by millerwill /forum/post/14356244
That is close, ~ 1.0 SW, but I think this is the first time I've EVER heard someone report that they wish they had gotten a smaller screen; it's always been the other way around.
Since he pointed out the 120" was diagonal he's actually at 1.2x. I agree 1x seems a little extreme, even though I enjoy it. But 1.2x seems acceptable to a lot of people on this forum, no?
Beside the visibility of artifacts by the pj, singnal deompression's I see flatter image when I am about 1.2x and closer. In theater I actullay like to sit in the middle and pay more attention to where my eye's are relative the screen hight (I like to be at 1/3 of the hight). Besides as I said earlier with close sitting audio will suffer too. But if you want it big then sit close but there ar surely compromises.
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Originally Posted by erkq /forum/post/14359235
Since he pointed out the 120" was diagonal he's actually at 1.2x. I agree 1x seems a little extreme, even though I enjoy it. But 1.2x seems acceptable to a lot of people on this forum, no?
Agree with the 1/3 height. I think this is the most accepted height.
Audio doesn't suffer with an AT screen. That works very well because the speakers aren't too far apart. But yes, you do notice artifacts more. For me, the most annoying is motion blur. But not annoying enough to sit in the back row!
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