Building Screen with Motorized Moving Border (1 Viewer)

[JesseSt]

All,

I received my X1 yesterday and am very impressed. Now I must start on building a screen for it. What I plan on doing is making a screen that can change from 4:3 to 16:9 as I want to watch a lot of analog cable and sat on 4:3 but movies on 16:9.

I believe I'll use either electric window motors or larger linear actuators to move the top and bottom black felt borders up and down to make the 16:9 format.

My question is, Is anyone else already doing this? And, if so, how are you hiding the motor assemblies? Do you have any pictures?

Thanks,
Jesse

 

[Bob Hill]

I'm still working on my system. I am using Bosch aluminum extrusions for the framework and generic electric motors for the opening and closing of the masking. I'll post some pics as soon as I get something working that looks good. BTW it looks like it is going to be about 3 inches deep, wall mounted with everything.

Bob

 

[MikeWh]

Jesse,

Do a search here and on avsforum for "masking". There are a ton of discussions on DIY masking.

Here's one from this forum just last month:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...41#post1743741

And this lengthy one has been going on since June over at avsforum:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=271105

There really are a lot more discussions though than just these two.