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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...

JVC's free firmware for the DLA-NZ900 and NZ800, which the RS4200 and RS3200 get through distribution, is one of the more substantial no-cost updates I have seen land on a projector. The headline is a new picture mode called Frame Adapt HDR Vivid, alongside a Highlight Color Control setting with...

Valerion has pushed its Anti-RBE processing out to the rest of the premium long-throw range, so VisionMaster Pro, Pro 2, StreamMaster Plus and Plus 2 all get it at no cost. It needs the latest Android software plus a DLP software upgrade underneath, so it is not a one-tap thing. The feature...

ProjectorCentral has a case study on Batbox, a baseball XR venue that puts real bats and balls against projected pitchers with live ball tracking. They opened their flagship in Dallas, they are aiming at weekly installs and 100 simulators inside a year, and they standardised on the BenQ LK935 4K...

There is a garage conversion build doing the rounds on r/hometheater that is worth a read for the construction detail alone. It is a room within a room: 100mm RW3 in the cavities, Soundbloc plasterboard, two layers on isolation rails for the two exterior walls. Then on top of the shell, four...

Someone on r/hometheater posted their travel rig this week and it landed closer to home than most build threads do. The problem they were solving was not picture quality, it was luggage. They took a projector on a work trip once, loved having a real screen in a place that had no TV or only a...

ZDNET refreshed its big-screen TV roundup this week and the framing has shifted in a way worth noticing. It is no longer 85 inches at the top of the chart. There are 98-inch classes from several brands, 115-inch sets, and reference to 130-inch panels existing. The cinema-sized television is now...