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Topic: Moral Support For A New Home Cinema?
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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted October 19, 2017 06:24 PM
Hey Guys & Gals,
My long suffering partner & I moved into our new abode last month, and, I'd like to share some of it with you guys & girls, even if just for my own sanity!
Sooo...as we move into our new (again, rented) house I'd like to share a record of the new cinema room progress as it happens...
The last house of 5 years accommodated the most perfect big screen 5.1 system, so obviously I am very sad...Boo Hoo...
This one has potential (so long as we live here for the contract), but also challenges, not least it being a new restore on top of a big hill, with already insulation debris being blown all over the cinema room from the new roof area down lighters during storms last Monday & tonight!!! lol...I think...
To give you some idea of my mind set, I call my fail safe cinema in the North East of England, "The Excelsior"...ok, so it lives in my folks house, but we love it at Christmas & Easter, etc.
And we all put a LOT of love into that!!! Even though I did say to my folks several times, "Don't you fancy a Summer Room instead?"
The next was "The Criterion", a cinema room I built in a flat we rented in Fallowfield, Manchester.
It was called this because it was very much a testing ground for new digital projection stuff, together with the very best Super 8mm from Derann. Super 8mm surround, the very first DLP, DTS, Etc. So exciting...even if our neighbours below weren't maybe so happy!
My friend, Steve, upon watching "The Terminator" on Super 8 there, exclaimed, "Jez, It's like the Odeon...Screen 3!"
I very much took that as a complement...
Next, a Bungalow in a village called Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK.
So funny to house projectors into a cupboard...best sound ever though and our first imaginings of a detatched dwelling with VERY loud sound.
Sadly, there was a damp problem, which led to me calling the screening room, "The Green Room". LOL!
Next, a new house in Handforth, with a reasonable room for surround sound and the introduction, disappointment, eventual elation of HD projection.
I called this one, "The Phoenix".
It lasted 7 years, always with Super 8 & 16mm running along side the latest digital advances.
Then...the big cinema at Handforth...the house looked like the one from "Poltergeist", so I called the cinema, "The Cuesta Verde".
Then I discovered that the name actually is roughly "view from a hill, or valley" and that is where we lived! On a mini Valley!
So the name was perfect and myself & family & friends loved it for 5 years...it was like going to the cinema...with LoveFilm providing the latest releases...
So...build commences on the new cinema...I'm signed up for Cinema Paradiso, which for anyone who doesn't know, is know the best source for renting prime quality cinema Blu-ray discs at home...
Lot of work to do...
EDIT; Super 8 & 16mm will always feature here, but maybe Doug wants to move this to the General Yak?
[ October 19, 2017, 07:32 PM: Message edited by: Rob Young. ]
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I just had a look back to 2007 in Screening Room Pictures "The Excelsior".. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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