Scopeguy's 'Scope Theater - Page 3

I think I will paint it a dark brown. This is one of the colors on my main floor and I think you can still appreciate the woodwork with it. If I go any darker the wood seems to lose it's detail.

If I don't like it paint is easy to change.
The roof will be almost black (hint of brown).

Greg

The woodwork is complete! (the panels may be delayed)
Here it is, a little cleaned up.






The dishwasher is also in, completing the plumbing.


CD, you might end up with a PM or two soon...

I hope I can figure out how to use it.

Greg

Well, not much progress this week. I thick everyone is away on holidays.

My pool table arrived, and since there's carpet in the basement I had it setup. I think it looks really nice! The fabric came out a little more yellow than I expected but it will work and the wood color is almost perfect.


My OC703 has arrived, but no word on the fabric. My garage is getting so full of stuff waiting to be installed I now can't put either vehicle in it.


To help handle some of the clutter, I've started on my shed!


Hopefully there will be some actual home theater news soon.

Greg

CD

I haven't tried too hard to set it up yet. I do know that the video_ts way I ripped a few things so far is not ideal. Does adding YAMG help me to tell what I am trying to play. I am able to play some of the video_ts files but I can't play (or even find with the navigation) the one (.IFO) that lets me play the main menu and navigate like I can with my computer. Thanks for reminding me of the link. I should put in at least a little more work on it before I call out for help!

With the pool table and bar, it's been quite a squeeze to get everything in. The room is a little over 15 feet by a little over 12. That is a 7 foot table and I will still have to use 52" cues most of the time. That said, I very happy with how it's turned out.

Jeff

Thanks for coming by. I plan on having the whole front wall, and the side walls to 36" out from the front treated with OC703. With this baffle wall, what is it made of? Should I be bringing the 703 forward off the wall to make it? Looks like I have some more reading to do!

Greg

RT

Since I hired out almost all of the basement work, I better have enough time to build the shed! I'm on call all the weekend though, so we'll see what actually gets done.

I'm going to hold off on the screen wall until I get the fabric so I can hide as many staple lines as possible in the construction.

Since the speakers don't come out very far from the wall I wonder if I could just have the OC703 out from the wall with nothing behind it other than a few studs for the false wall and either leave the few inch gap empty (or fill it with roxul) to create the baffle?

Greg

Thank RTROSE

I read the THX website as well and it could have been a little more helpful.

Shifting gears a little, I'm going to need more hard drive storage for my media server to put all my movies on it. Costco has western digital my book USB dual 1 TB drives on for what seems like a good price. As I understand it, I can add USB hard drives to the server's total storage and I would prefer not using all the internal bays on 'small' hard drives. Does anyone have any experience with them?

Some progress in the basement; the doors in the rest of it went up. Now just waiting for paint, final electrical and home theater equipment install. Oh, and that screen wall i have to build.

Off Topic shed progress
Joists in

Conduit in

Sheeting done


Greg

Hi KansasRookie

I like redundancy!

There is an HDMI cable, 3 cat5e cables (two can be used with a 'balun' to create an HDMI cable if mine breaks, 1 for control (12 volt trigger or others)), 3 RG6 cables (can be terminated to make a component cable, and a 2 inch conduit for anything else I might need.

I don't want to have to tear down my ceiling later, and cables are cheap to run now.

Greg

Painter's came back today!

The theater has a coat on it


I didn't know whether to do the soffits in the roof color or the wall color, but I think I like it this way. Along the front wall there will be some fabric on the roof so that should kill light reflections.

The shower door is in


and the rest of the doors in the basement as well.


The painter's come back tomorrow, then some of the theater gear starts to get installed, as well as the grafik eye.

Oh Yeah! Shed progress...

I'm building it 7 feet tall so I won't bump by head!


Greg

Thanks Oman

The shed is my own design. It is definitely cheaper than buying a kit, and you can build it a lot better than the kit. I built the floor out of 2x6's spaced a foot apart, with 3/4" plywood on top. You don't find that in a kit! I also like the big window in it.

Greg

Mine is 8 by 11, and 7 feet tall. In order to not require a permit it had to be under 100 square feet. Hopefully its big enough.

Greg

In2photos

That's a good-looking shed. I'm trying to decide whether to match my roof line as well. My house has a fairly steep pitch on the roof (maybe 6/12?). I'm not sure whether that will make it seem too tall as it already dwarfs my neighbors shed, but it might match my house better.

Oh boy, another 2 cubic yards of crushed gravel arrived so I can finish my patio. Time to get out the wheelbarrow again!

Greg

I would love more info on the baffle wall also. What I'm wondering is if I should just get enough 703, about 6-8 inches, placed along the front wall to come even with the speakers, whether it would be worth it?

It turns out my roof pitch is 8/12. I'm matching this on my shed.
Rafters in progress.


Greg

Still waiting on fabric for the home theater so I can build the screen wall.

Some sheathing on the roof of the shed now. It was too hot today so I worked on the electrical in the shade inside the shed in the afternoon.


Greg

I picked up some new hard drives for media storage. I'll hook them up via USB to the HP Mediasmart server. I will probably set them to be backed up by the server, rather than using their own RAID 1 capability. Now to just take the time to figure out how to work it all!



As for the shed, the sheathing is done and the window and door are in. I need to work a bit on the soffits and then it is ready for shingles and siding.
I'm glad I went for the 8/12 pitch.