My Dedicated New Home Theater

Hello everybody

I am a 57 yr old Doctor from a small town in Andhra Pradesh. I love movies and have been enjoying them on a 50" Sony 3LCD RPTV till now. Hadjust returned from the US of A with a Panasonic 200 720P LCD Projector and a Samsung 1080p8 upconverting DVD player.

This has enabled me to start on my longstanding dream of a dedicated Home Th.
I had a spare room on groundfloor which I had previously used as a Darkroom for phography. Since the digital age there is no longer a use for the same and I have decided to convert it into my HT.

The room size is 190" Long, 152" Wide and 144" High. I shall be having a false roofing installed to a height of 120", which would give me a Good acoustic Room Dimension. There will be a Split AC and 2 rows of seating - a front row of comfy
Sofa seats ( may be 4 lazy boys) and a backrow of reclining theatre seats- 4-5. on a
15” Riser.

My Design Goals in order of priority:

1. The picture
2. The Sound
3. Comfortabe Seating
4. Aesthetics

To this end I have had a door and a window on a wall dummied for preparation as the Frontwall with the screen. The walls have been painted with a Very Dark Blue Color
As I didn’t want any light reflections from the screen degrading the image. Black Matte is the ideal color but I have yet to see any theatre with black on the walls. This color was nice looking and you can see the result in the attached screen image.

It’s been 3 days since I started on the projector and I have been able to get a sample screen image today.

I hope to post the entire construction as it evolves with my thoughts and doings.

The screen shots for your enjoyment.

Gvr. 9/7

PS: My Equipment will be 1. Panasonic PTAX200U LCD Projector. 2. Samsung DVD 1080P8 upconverting player OR Oppo 971H upconverting DVD Player.
3. Onkyo TX-SR504 AV Receiver. 4. Polk Audio – M40s for Front, CS1 Center,
RA101s for side and back surrounds with a DIY 15” 240W. powered Sub.

Attached Images

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Giddavr,

I am shocked with joy, that it is raining with dedicated home theatre's, in one day two guys are showing us what they are making.

Being in a small state, and that too in the interiors yet, you are very progressive towards personal entertainment.

You have provided a lot of details, for which I will write later.

The attached images are not opening, like in the case of glads, I do not know what has gone wrong, are other members able to see the photos?

Congratulations, once again.

Vinay.

Thanks Vinay

I dont think u will be able to view larger images because the size limitation of 20K doesn't allow me to upload larger images.

U can however see larger screen shots in my duplicate thread at My Dedicated New Home Theater - Home Theater Systems - Electronics and Forum - HomeTheaterShack, which will contain the same posts as here

GvR

There is a way to load bigger pictures on this site, as i am not good with the computers so i had taken professional help, there are many members who have loaded bigger images.

If you go to forums, see the anouncement area.

Vinay.

This link which you have given of some other site, one can not see the photo's till one has a log in and password details.

So please load the pictures on this hifisite only, the owner of this site, will help you, write to him, they are always quick to help.

Vinay.

Login to a private Photobucket.com album has all HT pix

GvR

this photobucket is also asking for password.

Vinay.

agree with vinay, both places are asking for a password,

i am also setting up my home theater shortly, looking at your pictures will give me a good idea of what paint to be used for the roof and the walls in the room where i have my screen put up ,

giddavr - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

sorry about that. u should now be able to see with out any password

GvR

nice setup, pictures look cool, i had inquired about the same projector ax 200, but it was costing around 90k + vat locally, so dropped the idea to buy this one,

the blue colour looks good and matches well with the room, what colour shade and paint have you used, i am also looking to paint the roof and walls of my HT room,