projector

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...

A v1 build got finished this week with something I rarely see done properly: the screen hangs on hinges at the top of a nook so it swings up out of the way, with gas struts either side taking the weight. The struts are still being sorted. Behind it sits a Denon X1800H, three Klipsch R-5502-W II...

Ran into a build post that did the thing almost nobody does. Instead of stapling panels behind the screen and calling it finished, the whole room got treated: ceiling, walls and floor, in a closed off dedicated 18x14 space. Gear is a BenQ W2720i onto a 120 inch screen, a Denon AVC-A1H running...

Someone finished a basement build this summer and the part that caught me was not the theater itself, it was the room outside it. Eleven by fourteen for the main space with a projector, then an overflow room through the doors with a sectional seating eight and an LG CX with a soundbar, and an...

There is a thread from someone finishing a first build, seating arriving this week, 150-inch screen, asking what to actually play on it. Cyberpunk and Dead Space were the two guesses. I would push back on both, gently. Big projected images reward slow and wide. Driving and flight sims are the...

Someone converting a stereo room into a 5.1.4 scope cinema says the last piece he is waiting on is a madVR to handle aspect ratio switching, after deciding he did not want to keep zooming the projector by hand. He started the conversion on 19 July, which is a quick turnaround for that much work...

Came across a basement build that has the part I keep putting off: an 11x14 room with the projector, and an overflow room right outside the doors with a sectional for eight and an LG CX with a soundbar. Both rooms get fed off an HDMI splitter so everyone is watching the same thing for the Super...

There is a thread going round where someone describes losing hours to the Interstellar IMAX sequences on a flatscreen, and it reminded me of the one argument the TV side wins outright. Those expanded ratio scenes fill a 16:9 panel completely, edge to edge, and the switch in and out is the whole...

There is a UHZ65 in the classifieds at $2,000 or nearest offer. Bought in 2022, roughly 3,000 light-source hours on it, and the seller notes it is rated for up to 20,000, originally sold around $5,000 and still goes for about $4,000 new. On paper that reads as fifteen percent used and a half...

Secrets ran an op-ed defending the trade against the usual charge, that reviewers have become an extension of the marketing department because almost every review reads positive. Two of the arguments hold up fine. Audio taste really is subjective, and describing what a component sounds like...

Someone bought a house that came with a dedicated theater already built in the basement. Dated, but good bones, and he is not looking to spend heavily, just make it usable and reasonably future proof while he replaces pieces. What is in the rack now: a Marantz SR8002 with what sounds like a...

Saw someone asking about converting a two channel room to 5.1.4 with a scope screen and it is a question worth more than a shopping list, because the screen decides most of it before you buy a single speaker. With a 2.35 screen you have two options for the centre and neither is free...

AVPro Global and the ISF have put out the 2026 dates for the calibration workshop at their lab in St. Petersburg, Florida. Four sessions, running March 31 to April 2, June 9 to 11, August 18 to 20, and November 10 to 12. The change this year is that you can now attend the manufacturer days...

Good thread over on the home theater side. Someone finished rebuilding their room, sat down, and realised the white French doors were now the brightest thing in it. Under a hundred dollars of black velvet and Dacron from Amazon, a staple gun, a brad nailer and some door trim from a hardware run...

The spec that actually matters on the BenQ W5850 is not the 2,600 lumens, it is the throw. A 120-inch diagonal from less than nine feet is the number that decides whether a projector works in a real house. Loads of people have the wall for a big screen and nowhere sensible to put a long-throw...