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post #121 of 137
11/13/12 at 11:10am
Your welcome Rich. The thing is, it's a lot easier to build a great home theater with a big empty dedicated space, and unlimited funds. To be able to pull off a cool theater in an existing space like you did, that works, is great to see.

I'm nominating these as the strangest home theaters.

#1 - This is the " 50's Room " at the Victorian Mansion in Los Alamos, Ca. The bed is in a 1956 Cadillac, with a Blu Ray player in the glove box - it's like being at a drive in ( the speakers are real drive in theater speakers ) -





#2 - The Black Rock Bijou at Burning Man - it's a full blown movie theater in the middle of nowhere, showing classic film noir in the middle of the night -






And this theater is built in less than a week ( it's all pre - fabbed ahead of time ), then dismantled and removed after Burning Man. It's been out there 2 years now !!
Edited by Craig Peer - 11/13/12 at 11:50am
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post #122 of 137
11/13/12 at 3:41pm
Ok , I'll Bite the first moon of Jupiter...

Saturn is for single projectors...biggrin.gif

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post #123 of 137
11/22/12 at 9:29pm
You guys better hope I never get rich lol smile.gif
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post #124 of 137
11/23/12 at 12:09pm
I hope you do get rich, build a great home theater, and invite me over. I'll bring some good wine ! smile.gif
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post #125 of 137
11/23/12 at 3:09pm
Peter that look like it is going to sound great.What size is it going to be.
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post #126 of 137
11/23/12 at 5:02pm
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Peter that look like it is going to sound great.What size is it going to be.

The screen under 18 wide cinemascope, the room length 35 feet.





Thinking of laying a 3/8 steel seamless hull on top of the metal grid to keep the lower frequencies within the room, or help a bit.

With so many speakers it is safe to go very absorptive.

Stacked DCI Projectors Achille's heel is the distance between the lenses, it creates convergence errors at the extremes, bottom 2 corners for sure at minimum.

Not So with this periscopic autocon system.



I am going to ask Don Stewart to collaborate stepping back from his retirement for this Ray trace, make it more aggressive than the last Torus Prometheus in 2008.

I'd really prefer to use fixed lenses.
Edited by CINERAMAX - 11/23/12 at 5:15pm
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post #127 of 137
11/26/12 at 7:10am
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Hi All, I am rolling the dice again...Albiorix: 5,726 miles away.smile.gif







Those particular dices I suspect are loaded, be very very careful.
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post #128 of 137
11/30/12 at 9:20pm
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I hope you do get rich, build a great home theater, and invite me over. I'll bring some good wine ! smile.gif

96+ score please and Cab. I like Cab. It tastes great.

I will have to say Craig, that you would be more than impressed with the theater I have now I think. smile.gif

I'm thinking REAL theater at this point though. Personal IMAX comes to mind. cool.gif

I just need the construction crew, equipment, and most importantly LAND to build it. Hmmmmm..... AVS sponsored dream theater? I'm GAME! biggrin.gif

I'll even go head to head with Peter! AND ART!!!!!!! eek.gif
Edited by overclkr - 11/30/12 at 9:25pm
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post #129 of 137
11/30/12 at 9:23pm
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The screen under 18 wide cinemascope, the room length 35 feet.


Thinking of laying a 3/8 steel seamless hull on top of the metal grid to keep the lower frequencies within the room, or help a bit.
With so many speakers it is safe to go very absorptive.
Stacked DCI Projectors Achille's heel is the distance between the lenses, it creates convergence errors at the extremes, bottom 2 corners for sure at minimum.
Not So with this periscopic autocon system.

I am going to ask Don Stewart to collaborate stepping back from his retirement for this Ray trace, make it more aggressive than the last Torus Prometheus in 2008.
I'd really prefer to use fixed lenses.

Where the heck do you find these gigs Peter? I want in smile.gif

I dont want to do IT anymore! wink.gif
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post #130 of 137
12/24/12 at 6:53pm
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Where the heck do you find these gigs Peter? I want in smile.gif
I dont want to do IT anymore! wink.gif

Happy Holidays overclocker and all. Be careful what you wish for, it is a huge responsibility and difficult to do better than breakeven, with the huge amount of R&D and the collaborative documentation and systems being hugely time consuming.

So you definitely need to have a bit of a streak of masochist. But home theater can do that to people. smile.gif
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post #131 of 137
12/28/12 at 8:21pm
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Happy Holidays overclocker and all. Be careful what you wish for, it is a huge responsibility and difficult to do better than breakeven, with the huge amount of R&D and the collaborative documentation and systems being hugely time consuming.
So you definitely need to have a bit of a streak of masochist. But home theater can do that to people. smile.gif

Happy Holidays to you as well and Happy New Year to all of the crew here! smile.gif

I had the displeasure of going to IMAX in Portage Indiana to see the latest Bond film and find out it is now DLP. The light output was great. The SDE was horrible (and I was over half way back in seating). Just horrible. They ruined it. frown.gif

That is my lump of coal for the year!
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post #132 of 137
12/31/12 at 11:09am
Happy New Year Cliffy. Other than the projection faults, did you like the Bond flick?

Perhaps I am messing up apples and oranges but wasn't the projector a 3 chip DLP. I didn't think that would cause RBE. Are you talking seeing the grid or seeing rainbows?
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post #133 of 137
12/31/12 at 9:33pm
Interesting.

In the Phoenix area, I hadn't been to the Harkins IMAX since the second Batman movie, because I found the picture just too dark and the sound just too loud. Yet at the Harkins Cine Capri the picture and sound were top notch all the way!

On vacation in LA for a bit, so went to the AMC Burbank IMAX presenting "The Hobbit" in 48p & 3D & Dolby Atmos. Keep in mind the digital regular theater video is converted by a special process for use in the IMAX theater. Also, my understanding is that "The Hobbit" is the first feature film mixedfor Dolby Atmos.

Watching a few "previews" of 3D blu rays already out, they looked quite nice, with Avatar 3D really standing out! Plenty of brightness,brightness clearly not an issue.

Then, a special Star Trek "Into Darkness" preview - a nine minute clip. Looked phenomenal, the video 3D was amazing! And the sound was amazing as well. Web research later revealed that this past weekend the IMAX theaters showing "The Hobbit" also showed this Star Trek preview, AND that this entire nine minute 3D clip was shot with IMAX cameras.

Alas, "The Hobbit" picture and sound were mostly disappointing. Sound too loud, so any benefits of Dolby Atmos far outweighed by its being SO LOUD! Picture seemed bright enough but all too often I could tell the fakery of the sets and objects used. Is this due to the 48p frame rate? I suspect this is primarily due to the IMAX conversion.

Once I'm back in Phoenix, I'll go see "The Hobbit" 3d 48p at the Harkins Cine Capri, or other theater there that its playing at, and see how it fares there. A friend really liked it there.
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post #134 of 137
1/3/13 at 12:37am
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Interesting.
In the Phoenix area, I hadn't been to the Harkins IMAX since the second Batman movie, because I found the picture just too dark and the sound just too loud. Yet at the Harkins Cine Capri the picture and sound were top notch all the way!
On vacation in LA for a bit, so went to the AMC Burbank IMAX presenting "The Hobbit" in 48p & 3D & Dolby Atmos. Keep in mind the digital regular theater video is converted by a special process for use in the IMAX theater. Also, my understanding is that "The Hobbit" is the first feature film mixedfor Dolby Atmos.
Watching a few "previews" of 3D blu rays already out, they looked quite nice, with Avatar 3D really standing out! Plenty of brightness,brightness clearly not an issue.
Then, a special Star Trek "Into Darkness" preview - a nine minute clip. Looked phenomenal, the video 3D was amazing! And the sound was amazing as well. Web research later revealed that this past weekend the IMAX theaters showing "The Hobbit" also showed this Star Trek preview, AND that this entire nine minute 3D clip was shot with IMAX cameras.
Alas, "The Hobbit" picture and sound were mostly disappointing. Sound too loud, so any benefits of Dolby Atmos far outweighed by its being SO LOUD! Picture seemed bright enough but all too often I could tell the fakery of the sets and objects used. Is this due to the 48p frame rate? I suspect this is primarily due to the IMAX conversion.
Once I'm back in Phoenix, I'll go see "The Hobbit" 3d 48p at the Harkins Cine Capri, or other theater there that its playing at, and see how it fares there. A friend really liked it there.

Only the ETX auditorium is ATMOS at Burbank. But yea the IMAX was pretty loud, was a bit uncomfortable when I was watching TDKR there
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post #135 of 137
5/17/13 at 3:44pm
Enjoyed reading this thread. Surprised it didn't include a poll. Clearly all the theaters are top class.
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post #136 of 137
5/18/13 at 5:22am
Hello ,

I don't know if i can post this here , but i try ! :

http://www.lafontaudio.com/divers/Arane.html#p=1

Have a nice week end .
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post #137 of 137
5/19/13 at 6:04pm
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Hello ,

I don't know if i can post this here , but i try ! :

http://www.lafontaudio.com/divers/Arane.html#p=1

Have a nice week end .

Ding,ding,ding !

The winner is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cool.gif
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