projector

Three years of dark walls and a white ceiling, and the ceiling won. Someone posted their basement build where they painted the walls dark during the original renovation and left the ceiling light to keep the peace at home, lived with it, and finally repainted this month because the screen was...

Someone posted a build that is 10.7 feet wide and about 12 deep, with a 135 inch 16:9 screen and seating between roughly 6.5 and 7.3 feet back depending on how far the chair reclines. That works out near a 70 degree viewing angle, which is a long way past what the reference standards ask for and...

I sat about eight feet from a 120 for a year and what eventually pushed me back wasn't the picture, it was that I couldn't take in a whole frame without moving my head. So a 135 inch 16x9 at 6.5 to 7.3 feet depending on recline, with a 70 degree figure quoted for it, gets my attention straight...

Lumagen is taking a 9.4.6 room to CEDIA in Denver next month, Sound Room 7, second run of the Paragons of Home Cinema demo, and the piece debuting in it is the ArtisaN 8K Ready video and audio processor at 11,495 dollars. Eight inputs, two outputs, real time scaling, HDR dynamic tone mapping...

Two projectors that launched at the same UK money and could not be aimed at more different rooms. The XW5000ES came out in 2022 at 5,999 pounds and has since been seen as low as 4,249, while the UHZ78LV is newer, sits at full price, and is not scheduled for the US at all. On paper the Optoma...

The number I keep chewing on from the Paragons of Home Cinema Episode II lineup is 10,000 ISO lumens. That is the Christie 4K1000-KS getting its CEDIA debut in Sound Room 7 - single-chip DLP, 0.8-inch HEP DMD, a 1.25-2.0:1 zoom, $14,461. If you have spent the last decade thinking in the 1,500 to...

Someone over on r/hometheater picked up a TK710 as a straight 4K upgrade, noticed the menu mentioning 3D, and went down the rabbit hole with the Shrek 3D set and a pair of DLP glasses. Their reference point was an old Sony 3D TV from the PS3 era, which they rated as okay. The projector...

Someone posted their basement room and it's the most honest build I've seen in a while. Windowless interior room, so full light control from day one. Projector is an Epson EF-12 he already had. The screen was an Amazon pull-down stapled to the wall for years until he finally built a proper...

Richer Sounds has the Sony Bravia Projector 8, the VPL-XW6100ES, down from 15,999 to 11,499 pounds. That's a 4,500 pound saving on a projector that won a What Hi-Fi award in the over-10,000 category, and it's roughly 30 per cent off a machine that hasn't been on sale that long. You need to be a...

Somebody posted their room over on the hometheater sub and the gear list held my attention longer than the photos did. Nexigo Aurora Pro Mk2 UST throwing at a 120-inch Fresnel screen, an Onkyo RZ30 running it, Shield TV as the source, and two height speakers just went in after the ceiling and...

Another MicroLED wall is landing at CEDIA, and this one is at least chasing the right problem. Just Video Walls calls the platform Absolute Black, and instead of leading with resolution or brightness it leads with the surface itself: an ultra-dark phosphor face with emitters that take up roughly...

Christie has the CP4415m-RGBH at CEDIA in Denver, and the part that got my attention is not the 15,000 lumens. It is that a projector already installed in commercial cinemas is being pitched at residential rooms. The RGBH family turned up in late 2025 as a cinema product and nothing about it was...

Someone over on the home theater sub is stuck on this and I've been chewing on the same thing. He's looking at a larger room, seeing 100-inch sets from Sony, Samsung and Hisense in roughly the $1,800 to $2,000 range in the US, and now the projector plus screen route doesn't look like the obvious...

There's a build post going round where the guy explains he took his two kids to an 11:10am screening at a Regal RPX and walked out 110 dollars lighter once popcorn was in the equation. He started building his own room that April. The line I liked most is that he's glad he built it before he...

The spec that caught my eye in the DreamWall announcement isn't the pixel pitch. It's the power draw. They're claiming many of their indoor cabinets pull about 50 watts at maximum output, and that a lot of installs can run off a single 20-amp circuit with no supplemental HVAC and no active...

There is a thread going around from someone with a 5050UB on a 120 inch fixed frame in a properly dark room, feeding it discs from a UB820. His complaint is not brightness, he says he never wants more of it, it is that blacks in dark films do not sit down the way he wants. He has left the auto...

Someone on Reddit is stuck between a projector setup and a 100 inch TV for a big room, and the thing tipping them is that Sony, Samsung and Hisense 100 inch sets are landing around 1,800 to 2,000 dollars in the US now. That is genuinely close to a decent projector plus a real screen once you...

Nice bit of problem solving in a build posted this week. The screen is mounted on hinges along its top edge over a nook, with gas struts going in on either side so it swings up and holds itself there. Struts are still in progress. It is the kind of fix that only shows up when someone has a room...

There is a build doing the rounds that spends its first paragraph on acoustic treatment rather than gear, and it deserves the attention. Dedicated closed-off room, roughly 18 by 14 feet, and the owner treated the ceiling, the walls and the floor. Not foam squares on the front wall. His...

Someone over on HTF is running Jaws in the backyard on a 100 inch screen this week for family and friends, which is a lovely idea and also one of the harder things you can attempt outdoors as a picture. Jaws is mostly dark water. The night scenes, the Orca at anchor, everything happening under...