The Cinemar Home Theater Construction Thread - Page 79

You guys are too kind!

Stay tuned for more "awesomeness!"

Thanks BUSHIE.

Software-wise, you would need MainLobby, MLServer and DVDLobby and most likely our AV Family in order to pull off the Virtual Movie Poster.

I've built a system that not only plays movies for the theater, but also supplies a video feed to the LED Movie Poster. Killed two birds with one stone.

We could actually design something out-of-the-box if there's some interest - Movie Player plus Virtual Movie Poster Display all in one box. Otherwise, I'm happy to share my scene file along with all the graphics you'll need. It actually took me only about an hour to build the scene. 50 minutes of that was spent in Photoshop and 10 minutes was spent in MainLobby laying it out.

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That's correct. Everything I'm doing is step and repeatable by anyone else who's interested. I'm happy to share scene files.

Thanks for the compliment!

You have some options available. If you prefer to still pop in BluRay's, you can use DVDLobby to select the movie. Which then pushes it to your Virtual Movie Poster along with the start and end time's. If you have a lot of movies and you number them, you can even have DVDLobby popup a message saying which # BluRay to grab off your shelf. So you would essentially use it to catalog your movies and make a selection. Once the Play Movie command is triggered....the Movie Poster comes to life.

My FIL put the final coat on the steps and bull nose. This coat turned out less tacky than the first can we used.

I've also finished tagging all my DBOX movies so you know which ones have MFX attached to them.

On another note. I had yearly service scheduled for my Generac generator. It was good timing because a hose had worked itself loose and prevented the generator from running. So it would have been bad news if we had heavy rains and a power outage for the theater. I may need to add something to alert me inside of a failure. I think they have something I can add that's wireless. It's scheduled to run once a week, but I may be on the phone and not notice it. Although this past couple weeks I didn't recall hearing it startup.

Thanks for devoting two hours of your life to reading about the last year and half of mine.

I've finally had a chance to watch a couple more movies. BTW, Tron was pretty incredible for not only sound and picture, but also the D-Box. Really brought the movie to whole new level.

I took the projector down and tightened up the mount since it was loose. It seems to sit better now.

I'm also happy with the new Monoprice HDMI extender I added:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011012&p_id=6532&seq=1&format=2

I don't see any drop outs now like I did with the older non-powered version. My run must have been too long. The only downside is the power is at the projector which is not ideal. But I've done my best to hide it above the projector.

Here's a photo I put together that I sent to friends with an invite for the Packer game this Sunday. I saw someone else on the forum do the same thing and thought it was really clever.

I've stayed away from Fantasy...the last thing I need is something else to occupy my time.

Yes. I bought all the Oak at a local Menard's. The lip underneath the bull nose was 1/2" x 3/4" though.

I'm fortunate enough to have two menard's in my area...both about 12 minutes from my house. So if one was out of something, I could usually find it at the other. I also have a Home Depot and Lowes right in the area.

That's great...make's life easier especially when you are making daily runs...and sometimes twice a day on the weekends.

I used the Red Oak. I don't think there was a large selection of white available in the stores.

I used various sizes through out the room and seamed them together for the front stage. I had the benefit of doing it in the 3D software, so I could easily figure out the sizes I needed with minimal waste.
I don't recall all the various sizes I used unfortunately per section...but regardless...unless your room is the exact same size, I don't think it will matter.

Hope that helps.