My Screen blog: Behr Silverscreen to xyz (RS-MaxxMudd is in the lead). *Pics* - Page 2

Initial impressions: Not impressed at all.

I now see texture where before it was smooth. It's like a slight 'haze'. Very visible on a solid white background.

Ambient light: Still have to go Dynamic w/ the lights on.

Blacks: Still not inky black.

Off to tweak the 8350

I bumped by color saturation up to about 10-12 in Cinema mode, that right there REALLY helped w/ color 'pop'

Here are my quick Cinema mode settings:
Brightness -1
Contrast -5
Color Saturation 12
Tint 0
Sharpness Standard
Color Temp 6500k
Skin Tone 0
Power consumption ECO
Auto Iris Off
Gama 2.4

I watched "SALT" w/ Angelina Jolie w/ these settings. VERY movie like. I'm happy. Blacks are still a bit gray however.

During 98% of the movie, you really think you're at a theater. Very very very good. However if there is a bright and constant sold image (cloud or white van for instance), and I let my critical mind focus on it, you can see the 'sparkle'. It's not really a sparkle , it's just a.. I dunno what it is. It seems to effect one area of the screen. I look off to the far right and it's not there. It follows where I sit. I guess this is just the beast of a 'gain' screen? .

My expectations where very high. This is good to great. I'm hoping w/ the curing of the paint and additional tweaking, it'll be amazing.

Jury is still out.

I was running Art's. Didn't do it for me.

It's weird, the current Cinema settings work for me if I watch a movie. But here as I'm typing on the Projector in Windows in a forum, it looks WAY too dark and grey to me. Not bright enough nor white enough. Also playing Xbox 360, I go back to torch Living Room mode. Oh well.

OP here, canvas was sourced from some place online. It was ~$20 shipped. I've long forgotten the details. Search my name, I might have posted it on here before.

As for final thoughts. It has gain, but I'm not 100% satisfied. I may dabble with another formula or get a newer projector. Dunno. I'm really anal. Don't get me wrong, it looks great, but I want moar

And some final pics of my entire Home Theater redo

A rundown of what all was done:
Removed the crown molding (it was installed by a drunken cross eyed midget), had new drywall mud / texture added in
Several outlet / intercom holes patched. There was an outlet below the screen (YES, I'm THAT anal)
Removed a ceiling vent that was 'in line of site' between projector and screen (YES, I'm THAT anal)
All drywall had a once over for gouges, wrinkles, whatever
Ran HDMI/Coax/Ethernet thru outer wall to attic to run to projector, a DIY OTA antenna I made, and my home network
Ran a new outlet in the attic so I could have projector power cord out of sight out of mind
Installed a new ceiling fan
Changed my single gang to double gang which required a new romex run. This allows me to turn the fan blades/light on independent of each other. Lights also have a dimmer. BALLER AS ALL HELL!!!
Changed out brass hardware with nickel (I hate brass with the intensity of a thousand suns!)
Several several coats of new paint on the ceiling/walls. A nice cream/dark green from Behr (Cottage white / moss green)

Onto the pics:

Crappy ass crown molding caulk job


Barf


Two tone paint? WTF?


This was how the projector was wired for over 2 years Yeah, power and video just dangling for the world to see, sigh.


Lets RIP!


Ho boy what have I got myself into?


Drywall is FUN! All those blobs, the nails were working their way out of the studs. So my drywall guy pounded em back in, used screws, and mudded over everything. God bless my drywall guy.


Prime time! 18 man hours priming (3 people painting)


Walls/ceiling done. 25 man hours (3 people painting)


Double gang DONE. This one was a dirty little whore. Note to self: 2 single gangs DO NOT EQUAL a double gang...trollololol.


Sexy new fan with dim-able lights


Ignore the dust. Truck bed liner is a bitch to get clean


Oh yeah baby, keystone jacks FTW


Mmmmm


Power/HDMI to the ceiling


No more ceiling vent, lol


Woot. Lovely new nickel hardware.

Edited by mike 01hawk - 10/8/12 at 11:01pm

And some behind the scenes pics:

Wire splice to...


Put in a new outlet


Me capping off the vent (there's aluminum tape and a proper cap under all that duck tape, lol)


A walkway I spent way to much time making cause I was tired of crawling on my hands and knees painfully on 2 inch joists and fiberglass