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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 24, 2014 09:43 AM
Welllll
Some years ago we watched TV in the den and the living room and dining room were pretty much empty except when company showed up. Then I noticed that I could hide a pull down screen behind the curtains in the living room window and put projectors on the far end of the dining room table and have like a 20 foot throw. So this became my theater and stayed that way a few years.
One fine day (actually a hellish few months...) we renovated the first floor and made what had been the back porch part of this immense living room, dining room, kitchen, TV room complex.
The upshot of this is what had been my "cave" is now shared space. We abandoned the den to Thomas the Tank Engine, later Wii and now X-Box, and I have to timeshare screen time with my wife watching overweight brides picking out wedding dresses on Cable. (GOOD LORD! The dresses are all white!: eeny meeny miny moe!!)
So somehow by expanding the house we've made it effectively smaller. If I ever had a cave it's basically caved in!
The good news is when the entertainment center came up so did the stereo, and that was the start of my cinema sound system.
For me, I could pretty much give up TV entirely other than The Big Bang Theory!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted June 24, 2014 02:45 PM
Roger, it depends on the time on the year, for example now I have to wait until 10 pm for my room to be dark and in July (so very soon !) and August, I go abroad on holiday so no show at all during these two monts. Otherwise, several hours a week. I also spend some time cleaning and resplicing dammaged films, I try to have some old projectors fixed and serviced, so I have to bring them one by one to a repairman in Paris (of course I don't go specially for that but when I go I take a projector with me and bring back the other one) and I also shoot on film (in Spuer 8 and 9,5, seldom on double 8). That's in addition with visits to conventions, club projections and hunting on Ebay. All together, I realize that I spend some time in the hobby.
-------------------- Dominique
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