[John Stone]

I've wanted a dedicated home theater and lobby area for almost a decade, but never had the space to make it happen. My wife and I recently had a new home built, and my long-time dream having a dedicated home theater and lobby has finally be realized.

Everything is functional, but I plan to further improve the theater and lobby in the coming months.

Here are a couple quick photos, but on my Home Theater page I have many more before/after photos, videos, links, descriptions and information on my plans to improve the theater & lobby.

Now I just need to name it.

[slimmatic]

Looks great. We are in the process of redoing ours, and plan to have a concession type area like yours.

[Dave Moritz]

Just wanted to congradulate you on your new dedicated home theater room, very nice!

[chuckg]

Nice! tastefully done. How about "Stone Cinema" ?


and, get that phone out of the room! sheesh, you want to be interrupted in the middle of a battle sequence?

[Joel...Lane]

Looks very nice. Congrats! The whole house looks great. I like how you terminated your audio cables into the back of the plate. Gives it a much cleaner look than having the cables just coming out of the wall, even if it is in a closet.

What are the room dimensions if you don't mind my asking?

[don monteith]

Clean and classy!! I really like it.

Don

[John Stone]

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Originally Posted by slimmatic

Looks great. We are in the process of redoing ours, and plan to have a concession type area like yours.

We're really enjoying the lobby and theater. Good luck with yours, I'm sure you'll love it!

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Originally Posted by Dave Moritz

Just wanted to congradulate you on your new dedicated home theater room, very nice!

Thanks, Dave.

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Originally Posted by chuckg

Nice! tastefully done. How about "Stone Cinema" ?

I was trying to come up with a name that's a little different. Right now I kind of like "The 10 Palms Theater" or "10 Palms Cinema" (there are 10 palm trees in my front yard). I'm still mulling it over, and probably will be for awhile.

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Originally Posted by chuckg

and, get that phone out of the room! sheesh, you want to be interrupted in the middle of a battle sequence?

Oh, the phone is just in the lobby--there's no phone in the theater (and cell phones are NOT allowed in the theater ).

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Originally Posted by Joel...Lane

Looks very nice. Congrats! The whole house looks great. I like how you terminated your audio cables into the back of the plate. Gives it a much cleaner look than having the cables just coming out of the wall, even if it is in a closet.

Thanks, Joel.

Yeah, wire clutter is a big pet-peeve of mine; I think it can ruin the appearance of an otherwise very nice setup. I guess that's just the network administrator in me coming out.

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Originally Posted by Joel...Lane

What are the room dimensions if you don't mind my asking?

Pretty small, actually: The theater is just 15'4" long by 12'1" wide, and the lobby is roughly 12'10"x15'1".

[John Stone]

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Originally Posted by don monteith

Clean and classy!! I really like it.

Thanks, Don.

There is still a lot more that I want to do (both in the lobby and in the theater), but the idea is to build on what I have without getting too opulent. I don't have the budget to place form over function (at least not too much!)

[Nick P]

John - Theater and lobby look fantastic. How do you like the Epson Pro Cinema 1080 UB projector? I'm looking to upgrade my old 56" RPTV with either a front projector or something like the Mitsubishi 73" DLP RP.

[John Stone]

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Originally Posted by Nick P

How do you like the Epson Pro Cinema 1080 UB projector?

I love it--the image is fantastic (note: I had it ISF calibrated). The blacks are deep and very detailed, and the colors are vivid and bright without looking unnatural.

I have two complaints about the 1080 UB, but they are fairly minor:

The convergence is a tiny bit off. This is only noticeable at distances closer than the seating distance, so it's not really an issue. Convergence is the one strike against the 1080 UB that I've heard repeated a lot; however, the buzz these days is that the units coming out now are much improved over the earlier units. I know mine looks great unless I get right up on it, and even then it's just a pixel off. Most people would never notice. My wife has no idea what I'm talking about, no matter how close she gets.

The other complaint is that my SVS was causing the screen image to shake when played at, or near, reference (my preferred movie watching volume). I tried decoupling the sub to no avail, and was about to decouple the projector mount with spring clips, when it was suggested that I take a small piece of index card and wedge it between the inner and outer lens housing. It worked perfectly--the image is now rock solid! Not bad for a 2 second free fix.