JeffDM's Home Theater Page

JeffDM's Home Theater Project

My Ceiling Mount Project This is a ceiling mount I built for myself using some hardware, aluminum, delrin and some of my design and machining skills.

My Equipment What I have and use in this room.

My Audio Rack Project

Preliminary Screen Captures

Here are some quick screen captures on an unpainted wall, in an unfinished room. The image as it sits on the wall is about 140" (~3.7m) diagonal for standard 4:3 aspect ratio images, and I have it set so that when I zoom out, I can display 16:9 images at about 171" (~4.5m) if I choose to. The main limitation is the speaker and power jacks at the bottom of the wall, and the length of the tube that I chose in lowering the height of the projector. The light seen in the pictures is daylight coming from a room where there is no door to block the light, but there will be one soon, for near total light control.

For a perspective on room size, the ceiling is ten feet (~3 meters) high.

The images I had were limited, I had some logos captured onto a Compact Flash card, in a PCMCIA adaptor inserted into the slot on the projector.

The black pockets you see in the wall are the boxes for the outlets and speaker wiring points.

Completed Home Theater Room


A view of the ceiling fans and some of the lighting.	A view of the screen wall from the back end of the short hallway at the opposite end of the room. The cables for the projector are dangling from it to the floor. I plan to add a raceway track to the ceiling and wall to tidy that up.	There is a kitchen in a rear corner.

The principal room is about 26ft wide and 30 something feet deep, with a ten foot ceiling.

Screen Shots and Movie Pictures

It may not look it, these pictures were taken with a 150W-equivalent light was on in the back corner to the right, the light is brighter than it looks in these pictures. The exact same kind of fixture and bulb shown in the kitchen above is being used as lighting here, yet the lighting looks vastly dimmer, particularly when compared to the appearance in-person. This is another case that shows that standard digital cameras generally cannot be completely trusted to give you a good feel for the environment.

Again, the camera really can't show you the good and bad about these images.

The camera used was a Sony Mavica FD-73. Most pictures were taken without the flash turned on. The camera is an old model, and as with any camera, the images are not a totally accurate capture of the actual environment.

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