My HT Room - Page 2

WAF isnt a problem here per say... The wife is the one that wanted the room in the first place, I wanted a swimming pool. You can see who won that one. Now the only problem with her is she see's everything working and doesnt see the need to upgrade the equipment since it all has less then 200 hrs on it. Now if I talk about doing something she doesnt already have that a different story.

I'm probably one of the few people that understand and play the WAF to my benefit. Besides some of the odd things they can come up with it comes down to this. It really doesnt even matter if the wife likes it or not but whether or not it will give her the ability to brag about having it to her friends. Now her being able to say we have a movie theater with a projector is good enough for her to brag about, on the other hand her bragging about whether or not it is 720p or 1080p makes no difference to her because her friends wont understand it.

Hi Mike:

Thanks. There a bit of room behind the seats, enough to walk behind and also leaves room for the chairs to recline. Its a bit tight but yes we can walk behind it to get to the dvd shelves. Well half the shelfs are HD DVD and Blu-Ray movies now, slowly replacing all the dvds.

As for an update of the room itself.

I've added a Panasonic DMP-BD10 Blu-ray player along with my current HD DVD player

In order to get multiple HDMI connections I had to update my receiver already. I got a new Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXS receiver yesterday to replace my Marantz SR7500 receiver.

It's a real shame the Marantz SR7500 receiver is great, I paid like $800 for it and it only has about 200 hrs of use on it but doesnt have the multiple HDMI connections I need. So now I have this virtually new receiver sitting there not being used

Also yesterday I had the HT room and my upstairs plasma tv ISF calibrated.

I think they sound great. Even the ISF calibrator was surprised how well the in-walls sounded

Hi Cole, the surround sounds great in either row. It was optimized as far as placement for the first row but I can say I've noticed a difference while in either row.

The first row is about 13' from the front wall.

The soffit in the front of the room is empty and just meant to even out the soffit on the side that would have been partially over the one side of the screen.

But on the side wall soffit it does have ductwork and recessed lights over the posters. They are small recessed lights that are right beside the ducts. Doesnt seem to be any problems with it.

On the riser is simple rope lights picked up from Home Depot

Thanks, It came out nice and appears a bit brighter in the pics than it actually is.

I'll have to check with the wife about that one, all I remember is it was the grade that was recommended by Roman here on AVS. Yes I'm happy with the chairs they are very comfortable.

Hi Morten

Thanks for the compliments


No. SDE is hardly visibile even from very close-up. I hate SDE and after comparing many different projectors I picked this pj because it was the best in all the comparisons I made about this specificly


No, I havent noticed any RBE on it


At 23-25 db's (depending on mode selected) you would be hard pressed to find a pj that is quieter then this one.

If you can tell by the pictures of my set-up the pj is mounted practically directly overhead of our seats in the second row and you dont hear it at all during the movie unless the movie is dead silient.

Honestly I think my blu-ray player that sits much further away in the room is louder then the pj.

- Are you running your HD DVD/Blu-Ray at 60 Hz or 24/48 Hz?

24/48

When you make your purchase, make sure it has the latest firmware for it otherwise you'll have to send your projector to the dealer in order to have it updated.

If I can help any more just ask or PM me anytime.

Actually I may be upgrading sometime in the next few months to Benq's 1080p model to go with my HD DVD & Blu-ray player so I may be putting this projector up for sale in the sale section of the forum.

Depending when you need it by and if your interested let me know and maybe we can work something out.

Yes you will definetly still see a difference with either of the 2 high def format on a 720p but of course to take full advantage of 1080p source material you would need a 1080p pj

No, I havent seen a BD808 to say either way

Thanks, the black ceiling and black carpets really keep it nice and dark in the room.

I would definetly suggest the high def players (there great) the HD DVD players can be had for around $350 now and you get 5 free HD movies with it.

For the BR players (unless you want a PS3) I would wait till after the summer since they will be changing there specs on the format players and plus there still pretty expensive

Good for you, I'm sure your enjoy it

Finally pulled the trigger an updated to a 1080p projector. I ordered the JVC RS1 from AVS and expecting it to arrive today

My beloved BenQ still has less then 500hrs on it and was recently ISF calibrated, if anyone is interested in it send me a PM

I should have ran more cables for future use when the walls were still open, now less then a year later its already biting me in the *** . Ok so at least I remembered to run the wire for the cable before hand but hoping I could use that for a future internet connection was wishful thinking. Ok so I have to run Ethernet wire to the equipment rack now to get an internet connection to the HD DVD player.

What I would like to ask is how many lines should actually run? Would one Cat5 or Cat6 line to the equipment rack and then splitting it right there with a hub be enough for future multiple connections or should I run extra lines with it now?

Also I haven't even started researching it yet but we are already tired of pointing the remote control to the back of the room when using it and I want to add whatever is needed to the front of the room to make using the remote easier. I think it's an IR repeater I need but have to look it up still as I said. But my immediate question about that would be what type of cable wires do I need to run to the front wall for it and how many lines? This way perhaps I can

Hi Daniel:

Thanks for responding but I dont think this is answers my question. If i'm not mistaken this leap frog looks like some type of wireless setup. Additionally they look like fairly large sensors that would need to sit on something in the front of the room.

I would rather have very small rather invisibile little dot sensors barely noticable on my wall around my 110" screen.

My main question about it is, since I'm going to run one line soon for an internet connection anyway, how many lines should I include at the same time for a wired IR repeater system?

How many sensors would I need on the front wall 1-5, I have no clue?

Does each need its own line all the way to the equipment rack or can the single line be split and branched for the different sensors?