Show me your COMPLETED Theater! - Page 24

Thanks DV miller!

I've been working on my theater/lobby since October. I've reached the burn out point. I'd say they are 90% finished.

The only things left to do are:
Touch up paint in the theater
Build rear wall speaker grills
Mount the screen and trim the screen wall
Mount Projector
Buy seating
Paint lobby

At one time I had 20 gallons of paint sitting in my house. I've probably used about 12 of those.


I know this is "Show me your COMPLETED theater", but here is a tease.




I'm being asked to start a theater build thread, so I have. The link is now in my signature.












Edited by JeffreyJonesBSME - 4/9/13 at 9:35am

Hi!
Here is my contribution to this excellent forum! I am a swede living in Norway but I visit this forum often and I am impressed of what you guys build.
It is a electric 4-way DIY Somfybased masking system.

2.40:1




16:9 108"


16:9 146"





Edited by MisterMR - 4/30/13 at 11:04pm

Beautiful work!

You joined in 2007 but this is your first post?! That is definitely some sort of record.

MisterMR,

Fantastic home theater!

Is your masking system self-designed, or a commercial design you bought?

My 4-way masking is somfy-motor based as well. Somfy sure makes some terrific, quiet, reliable motors!

landshark1,

I think I recall seeing your other post where you made those panels on the wall. How did you go about attaching them to the walls?

18ga finishing nail + liquid nail. For the 1" thick panel, actually just liquid nail or Velcro will be strong enough. But for my 2" thick panels, an actual nail is needed to secure them on wall.

Me too, this has always been my favorite thread on the forum. It's great to see all the hard work everyone has put in with pictures in one place.

Thanks AirBenji and R Harkness!
The masking system is self-designed. The inspiration comes mainly from Moggie`s fantastic thread, and Rich.. I really like your cozy room and masking system and enjoyed reading your threads.

In this video you can see my masking system (sorry about the poor video quality).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMC6st75AOo


And more in detail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHl5bH02eU

By the way AirBenji... thanks for the lurker champion title!
Edited by MisterMR - 5/2/13 at 2:47am

I just love this thread. These are some really amazing theaters. So inspiring. What a great hobby this is!

I didn't even think about velcro! Thank you

I was just curious about vibrations from audio.

Finished mine a couple months ago. Since it seems evident in this thread that ya'll like the pics with the guests, I thought i'd include a few with my own guests. There's still things i wanna add. Starting in 2 weeks im making a DIY Star ceiling panels and a DIY Cinebar behind the 2nd row to seat 3 bar stools.

This website and forum has nelped me SO MUCH. I'm sure glad i stumbled onto this site.

I love the photos of your HT in use. Looks like a lot of fun.

are those celium ceiling tiles? How are they on the acoustics? I'm curious and wana get pvc tiles like that

linkseo, l love those pic too.

Thanks for the call out! I'd really like to see some construction pics or your masking system. Any chance of a few details in the DIY screen thread?

Cheers.

Hi Moggie!
Yes, I have now a thread at
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1472215/mistermrs-starry-night-cinema-with-electric-4-way-diy-masking-system-with-somfy-motors#post_23301422
You and everybody else are welcome
Edited by MisterMR - 5/10/13 at 3:12pm

What an inspirational thread every time I look at this I get more motivated.

My first theater.

My theater is 12 feet wide and just under 18 1/2 feet long. I have one riser, and seating for six. The seating is mainly organized to give two other couples placement side by side. I ran a three by three arrangement for a while, in order to have a sweet spot, but it created awkward social moments as couples had to split every time we watched a movie.



My screen is 108", running a nice video image from an EPSON ProCinema 6010

My processor is a Marantz AV8801, and I run full 11.1

Three amps with 5 channels each power the theater. One channel is left in reserve. 14 channels are divided up by the front L/C/R all getting two channels each, and remaining speakers each have a single channel from an amplifier, making the total of 14.

I use a single Crown amp to power the seat rumblers in the four rear row seats.

A Velodyne DD18 is used for my main and only sub (at this time).

My media is stored on a NAS drive of 30TB.

We just love our theater, and we host both friends and family regularly.

Thanks for viewing my theater.

What a beautiful theater zuluwalker. I am certainly envious of the size of your NAS movie collection and I'll bet it sounds terrific in there!

Thank you dvmiller. The collection makes it so easy to find a movie. Often when crushed for time, I watch half here and half later. The sound is fantastic

forgive me for sounding like a newb but what exactly is this "NAS" i see all the time? im guessing its a hard drive of some sort that stores ripped dvds and blu rays?

NOOB alert!!!! I kid, I kid!

NAS is Network Assignable Storage. It's basically a hard drive on your network. So instead of having an external hard drive hooked to your computer via USB cable and being limited to the data transfer limits of USB (or whatever the connecting method), you can hook the storage up to your network use network transfer speeds of +/-100 mbps . Your computer does not need to be powered on for other devices on the network to access the storage.

interesting. but how do you then stream the movies in your nas? dont you need some type of hardware connected to your projector or reciever that picks up the nas?
can u set up for example a ps3 that is hooked up to your reciever to connect to the nas and play on your projector? or do you need a specific hardware that reads the nas's storage?

or... Network Attached Storage. Really doesn't matter though, it's all awesome in the end.

Check out my equipment list for how I stream my ripped Blu-Ray collection to my projector. It's much like using the PS3. And you can use the PS3 too, just have to have the correct file type

Not sure if I ever posted an update image after I completed all the work. I still want to go a little larger on the screen. I am using an HD33 Optoma 1080p proj. I figured out if I pull the proj. back approx 8" and play with the zoom and open the lens a tad I can go from the current 131" to 148" fairly easily. It will just take convincing the wife that an extra 17" will be awesome! For those who want to ask but hate to ask, I don't mind discussing. I made an excel sheet and did a full calculation of everything in the room. My project came to approx 4500 without my gaming computer setup and 5400 with the gaming computer. This includes EVERYTHING down to the screws that I bought for the screen and the furniture, wires, projector, and even the bar I made from IKEA hackers site with the alcohol, & etc. I will say that I ran my own CAN lighting and wires, and everything else that required elbow grease. So if you are going to pay someone this may run into the hundreds, if not more.