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Topic: Your Screening Room Pictures.
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Michael Beyer
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 233
From: Bingen, Germany
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted October 22, 2009 03:35 AM
Hi, here are some photos of my screening room in our new home. It is not very big and not very professional, but good enough for me. The distance between projector and screen is roundabout 3m. The screen has a width of 2,53 m. Scope has a width of 2,34m and with an Elmo-conversion lens the flats are 1,60m x 1,20m. There can be 3 or 4 guests.
The screen:
The decorated left wall...
...and the right one
The projector-part (very provisorily, but don't know how I can make it better):
One of my Elmos (old, but have the best picture) with an 1.1-lens:
Last but not least: Some of my films
Regards, Michael [ October 26, 2009, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Michael Beyer ]
-------------------- Just remember the time when Home Cinema was not a disc...keep perforated
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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted October 23, 2009 11:36 AM
Hi,
my "Wharfedale/Lenco"-record player also supports 16 2/3, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm... Never stumbled across a 16rpm-record, though. According to the German wikipedia 16 2/3 rpm was advertised as the ideal speed for records played in cars. (Yes, back then some cars had record-players instead of CD/MP3-players!) However the Wikipedia has got a photo of a 16 2/3-LP: "treasure island" as an audio-book: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Disco_de_16_rpm.jpg
Jörg
(Besides: 78rpm-vinyl only sounds half as good on my Wharfedale compared to a hand-cranked gramophone as they normally require special needles (and are mono)...)
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David Pannell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1072
From: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted December 01, 2009 07:08 AM
Have just returned from yet another extended business trip and am now seriously considering all the options open to me regarding this awkward shaped room for the home cinema. It turns out that, with a little judicious planning and careful execution of the practicalities, I think I can achieve what I consider to be the best compromise. With the projector in the small part of the room, and with the screen in front of the window, I have worked out - albeit only roughly at the moment - that having the projector at a slight angle to the normal (remember that from your schoolboy physics)? and the screen also at a corresponding slight angle to the normal, the normal will be restored, and there won't be any out of focus issues, and the screen only needs to be offset a little from the centre of the room. It looks like the angle will be somewhere between 5 and 10 degrees, but I'll set it up temporarily and see how it works. I'll post the final dimensions and settings if successful, and I reckon this will give me the best all round result - both aesthetically and technically. Many thanks once again for your interest and input.
-------------------- Dave.
Valves and celluloid - a great combination! Early technology rules OK!
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