OldCooper
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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 HDMI splitter feeding both so the whole family watches the same thing during the Super Bowl. That is a better solve than knocking a wall through and I have not seen many people build it that way.
The splitter is where I would expect the trouble to show up. Two displays with different capabilities hanging off one source means the splitter has to report a single EDID back up the chain, and the usual failure is everything dropping to whatever the weakest sink accepts. Plenty of splitters have a manual EDID switch on the back for precisely this, and it is worth finding before a room full of people is sitting there waiting. Audio is the same story: one format gets negotiated for both paths, so the soundbar side can quietly cap what the theater side is allowed to receive.
On the room, eleven by fourteen is tight but it is a genuine advantage for a projector, since a shorter throw to a modest screen means every lumen is working harder. It is worse for bass. Audyssey will sort timing and levels and will not talk a room mode out of a small rectangle, so if the low end sounds like one note everywhere, move the sub and re-run rather than trusting the second pass.
Anyone running two rooms off one splitter long term? I want to know whether the handshake settles down or whether you are still power cycling boxes a year later.
The splitter is where I would expect the trouble to show up. Two displays with different capabilities hanging off one source means the splitter has to report a single EDID back up the chain, and the usual failure is everything dropping to whatever the weakest sink accepts. Plenty of splitters have a manual EDID switch on the back for precisely this, and it is worth finding before a room full of people is sitting there waiting. Audio is the same story: one format gets negotiated for both paths, so the soundbar side can quietly cap what the theater side is allowed to receive.
On the room, eleven by fourteen is tight but it is a genuine advantage for a projector, since a shorter throw to a modest screen means every lumen is working harder. It is worse for bass. Audyssey will sort timing and levels and will not talk a room mode out of a small rectangle, so if the low end sounds like one note everywhere, move the sub and re-run rather than trusting the second pass.
Anyone running two rooms off one splitter long term? I want to know whether the handshake settles down or whether you are still power cycling boxes a year later.
