The Cinemar Home Theater Construction Thread - Page 78

What are you talking about? All these have been 3Drenders. I just got the lumber last week to start construction.

Yeah. Kind of makes me want to remodel those chairs.

I actually fudged around with the sconces to get the lighting to look close...but got tired of waiting between renders.

Thanks Bryan.

It's kind of weird actually walking in the room now...it's like I'm in my own virtual world. Oddly enough though, like the rest of my house, there really are no surprises since you pretty much know exactly how it's going to turn out before hand.

I appreciate it. I've enjoyed your build tremendously.

I'm excited to check in on your progress and honored.

I finally got around to installing the color changing LED strip lighting under the stairs. By design, you don't actually see the LED's blasting you in the eye due to them being recessed.

I used the same HitLights Led strips that I used in the soffit tray.

I had to order a variety of their splitters and adapters to make it all work and cut them to length. I had to cover two steps on both sides since I just wanted to deal with one power supply and one IR emitter. I'll be emulating the remote control within MainLobby.

I think it turned out pretty good and will put me at ease especially when there are older people or kids going in / out of the room. It's pitch black in the room when the projector is off or goes to a really dark scene.

The red color is one of my favorites since it matches the fabric and also produces less ambient light in the room.

TIP: If you get the LED remote with the DIY buttons on them, you can get them to dim lower than what the remote allows you to by just selecting a color then hitting DIM. Just hit the DIY# button, then use the UP/DOWN arrows for each of the three available colors. I found this gets you a lower level light setting especially when using brighter colors like white or blue where even the dimmest setting is too bright.











As a side note. My FIL painted another coat of the Benjamin Moore floor paint on a section of the bullnose. It seemed to dry much better than the first can we used. So maybe we just got an old can or bad batch. So we've got one more coat yet to go.

I like the flexibility with these lights. The ability to change their color and adjust their brightness is really nice.

Yes. Time will tell though.

But they appear to be holding well.

I had to wrap it around a 90 degree corner so it did start to come up since I tried to give it a little curve. To make sure it didn't pull up though, I was able to squeeze an RJ11 jack up into the space to lock it in.

No worries Jon. Packer season is fast approaching.

I'm excited to kick off the Packer season this year in the theater!

I opted not to go with a hush box for a few reasons. I don't mind looking at the projector...it's a dedicated theater room...you gotta have a projector. Although, with the new HDMI balun, power is at the receiver, so now I've got to get creative with hiding everything.
Adding a hush box also requires venting, so that was one less major obstacle to overcome. I know the projectors are getting quieter and quieter. The AE4000U isn't that loud, so I'm hoping the next one will be even quieter.

I used Poplar wood for the door jambs.

Thanks for the compliments. I'm flattered.

Sure...when the Packer's play them in November.

With the D-Box being a big part of the theater, I wanted myself and visitors to have the ability to see which movies are supported. I think there are just about a 1,000 titles coded to date.


So we recently modified DVDLobby to support displaying some custom fields while browsing your collection.

So for each movie that supports the D-Box, I can now show the D-Box logo over the cover art. I still have to go through my collection and tag each movie as a D-Box title, but you get the idea.



We've also added a few new variables that get populated when you play a movie which will include start time and end time. This will come in handy for the virtual movie poster.

You gotta keep the better half happy.

So I've got a working virtual movie poster now that dynamically updates.

Here's how it works, once you select the movie from MainLobby for the dedicated movie player for the theater, the movie poster is instantly displayed on the Virtual Movie Poster LED.

The Start and End Time's are automatically calculated.

I also display the rating, year, aspect ratio and run time.

There's still a lot more I'd like to do but due to time constraints it'll have to wait. I'd like to add some light sheens to the movie poster soon though to help draw the eye to the screen. It would also be really easy to scroll the synopsis along the bottom. It definitely deserves some movement to take advantage of the technology.



Here's another look at it since the photo doesn't quite do it justice.