Have projector - what do you do with your TV??

most people with the setup your describing use an electric screen that comes down just in front of the tv for movies, and pulls up and out of the way for regular tv watching. if your on a budget, just a manual pull down screen would work.

if your planning on using the wall for your screen, then youll have to think of something else.

I put the projector in the theater and the TV in the living room.

Never understood people that didnt have a tv in a livingroom...Wish I had a tv in every room including the bathroom.

In my mancave I have my tv on my desk and my fixed screen on another wall.

lol, reminds me of a friends quote:

girl:"i dont have a tv"
joey:"no tv?(looking perplexed) then whats all your furniture pointed at?"

different people brought up different ways i guess, my parents always had a tv in the living room, and so do i(well, now ive got a giant 100" screen......).

Huh? whats that mean?

Op I agree with others, run a 2 way system, perhaps upgrading your old tv to a 40 inch or so wall mounted LCD, then have the electric screen drop down in front of it for movie viewing. This would be the way to go if you don't have dedicated HT room.

So many different options.

We have a multipurpose room - screen and PJ across width with tv on wall of the length and seating easily arranged so people can watch either if and as when.

We like the dual option -56in TV for watching mindless tv programming (which we do more than we should) saving the PJ and screen for the Theater WOW of movies. Frankly, when we are watching Young and the Restless or most sports programming we perfer the tv and some room lights on.

Our TV is also a rear projection model that won't sit flat against a wall and allow a roll down screen - besides, we very much like our Da-lite fixed wall screen - we're informal folk and the big screen always on the wall of our living/TV/movie/talking/gaming/reading space doesn't bother us a bit.

Get creative and you will figure out a good solution.

when i was growing up, my folks never allowed a tv in the living room. the den, bedrooms, ok but never the living room.
i still carry that on for the most part. i have a projector and screen in my l.r. but they're out of sight except when in use.

my tv is in the kitchen.

Where we live, we want a TV you can just turn on when the tornado sirens blow. Best place for that is a bedroom. I seriously don't think you will need a second TV in your new theater room if you have a 120" fixed screen.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...3#post16282893

Here are some pictures of what I have done, do you have room to move the TV to the adjacent wall???

My TV was from 1988 and the sound stopped working long ago. So it was easy once my projector replaced the majority of my TV/movie watching. It went to Goodwill's TV disposal. No, I didn't donate a broken TV, I marked it as broken and they disposed the television.

I don't have a picture but at our vacation home, I have the TV setup as you do and a screen above it on the wall, so you can use the AVR for both, just some don't like looking up to watch a movie.

Our vacation home has the same wooden paneling, its great for watching movies, keeps the room dark.....

I put this in the other thread. Meant to put it in here. This is the solution I have currently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtfAtZlcR0

Made it to my cabin this weekend so here is a picture.

Since I bought a projector, my TV watching has drastically declined. I'm now to the point where I spend one, maybe two hours per week in front of the thing.