My Theater Build

[Craizie]

Odd furniture placement for a theater room.

[diablo rojo]

Any tips on building the poster boxes? I just bought 4 front loading snap frames and I am looking for plastic diffuser to spread the light evenly in my DIY frames...still in the planning/trial phase

You can use white plexiglass as a diffuser. Regal plastics carries a number of different levels of opacity. You need a cavity behind the diffuser, painted white, and around 3 inches in depth. You can use 2 off the shelf 24" fluorescent lights to do the job.

As for the furniture, it's arranged more traditionally now. The next project is a platform and theater seating.

[Sean88gt]

Once you go projector, you never really want to go back to flat panels again.

I use my 110" as my main TV all the time. I was going to build a dedicated room, but I'm glad I went against that so I can enjoy it every day.

Why so? Size, quality, etc?

I'm completely unfamiliar with projectors.

[diablo rojo]

Why so? Size, quality, etc?

I'm completely unfamiliar with projectors.

Size would be my reason for not going with anything less than projection in the future.

[Mark04]

Thanks!

[diablo rojo]

Finally got the led lighting up. It goes around three sides of the room. Now, I just have to mount the moulding in front and that project will be complete.

[diablo rojo]

It's been a slow process, but I finally put the crown moulding up last weekend.

[lincolnboy]

No curved screen. No kegarator.

[Z06killinsbf]

I like that, looks great

[Baron Von Crowder]

How's the BenQ projector doing? I'm about to replace my old junky one, and saw them while shopping on amazon. Anything you would do different?

[fordracing19]

Lo9ks neat but I like mine pitch black

[diablo rojo]

The BenQ is holding its own really good. No complaints.

The lights go off during a film.

[Gasser64]

I've been really impressed with the picture quality.

How would you rank it in comparison to modern TVs? Never had much experience with projectors. Only monitors

[diablo rojo]

It all depends on the lumens the projector throws. I'd say it's comparable to my plasma, or maybe a little bit dimmer.

[diablo rojo]

I'm going to start building the riser for the back row this weekend. It will be 14" high, so viewing should be just about perfect. I still can't decide on a wall color I like. I've also found myself researching fiber optic kits for star fields. That's a project for down the line.

Current progress:
Seating
Poster frames