Tech Bedroom Theater

Actually its not easy to do at all When I wired my house for ethernet I discovered that the outside walls are foam filled, I had to use a pointy stick and 2hrs just to bore a hole though it 2 feet off the floor down under the house so I could run the RJ-45 up. I'll never be able to do it for a 9ft run from the bottom of the wall to the top

Or get a roto-zip or similar - cut down to just the thickness of the drywall or a bit less and cut a groove from floor to floor. Run your cable and spackle over the groove. Bad part is if you goof and need to take the wire out (broken conductor) - be one hell of job to get it out.

Foam filled, probably Urethane?

Easy - Cut a series of small holes vertically plumb to the wall, dig out a small cross-section of foam, take a superhot ball bearing and drop it in the uppermost hole and see if it cuts through the next hole (if it get trapped, it won't appear in the next hole (you know roughly that the ball is somewhere between two sets of holes - no joke, instant conduit.

Though this won't work if you have the higher density foam - there it just gets hung up after sinking in a few inches, but still hot enough to cause the foam to soften around it and you end up with a void behind a panel or tends to run in a funky pattern instead of straight down.

If you burn your house down - it not my fault.

If it was pretty easy I would do it Obviously your defintion of pretty easy and mine are quite different

wait, is black the only option...?

i have my room painted a nice blue.. i think it still would'nt be that bad

Hey barns question here. We are considering a projector for our living room. Which one of these two are better and do they rate as well as yours if not better?



EDIT: I was able to find this link.
Optoma - http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/prod...FEED->PRODUCTS&cm_ite=1 PRODUCT&cm_keycode=57

LoL thats more then I want to know and Im sure you get the big picture at your bed LOL...

Those are day after thanksgiving sale ads. Retail is like double on both projectors.

Click on the link that I posted. The optoma one says HDTV-compatible. Im a n00b to projectors but doesnt that mean its an hdtv projector?

Optoma kicks ass, I say go with the Optoma, also it has a 4000:1 contrast ratio which is double mine.

Good point, if you can't mount on the ceiling it is kind of a pain in the but, But the specs on are it still good. DVD is only 480p, the new HD-DVD will be higher but still 480p looks awesome on 120" from 10 - 15ft away.

compatible just means it can down sample the HDTV feeds to 480p. 480p is still far better then standard television resolution so it's still awesome. I have a 480p projector and its fantastic, you can get a 720p projector but its going to cost twice or three times as much and a 1080p projector is going to be 3+ grand.

BAH we arent lookin to spend more than 1grand so Im guessing that optoma is best bet. Also comes with free 92" screen which we probably wont use so Ill sell it on ebay.

yea im probaby getting a projector myself in a couple days or in like 2 weeks its goin in my room...then im taking it with me to my apartment for school in Arizona....your setup looks awesome...good job

Yeah Pannies kick ass, however your statement on standard television (NTSC) being 480i is wrong, NTSC broadcasts are 352x240 and that is a hell of a lot less resolution then 640x480 which 480p is. And as far as 480p looking like crap stretched out? I lay in a bed 12 feet from my 120" screen and it does not look pixelated even in the slightest. So I don't really know where your comming from, I do agree with you on 720p looking better, I mean its 1280x720 which is awesome. But for the price difference it might not be worth it to some, I'll certainly be getting a 720p panny in the new year but standard DVD movies are only 480p anyways so unless your updating your entire collection to HD-DVD or BLURAY or have a badass expensive hardware video scaler I would think a 480p projector is just fine. Oh, I've seen the AX100U in operation and its freaking amazing, however my friends has a slight convergence problem with the 3 LCD screens, but thats probably pretty common to LCD technology sine they use 3 pannels.

Yup price difference is what we are talking about here. We dont watch that many movies and all of our current tvs are from the early 90s LMAO. I think any projector would be a huge scale up then what we have now. 480p will do for now. Once blu-ray is more developed then we will see. BTW just to let you guys know we dont own many dvds (probably like 10 max). We will deff be getting a netflix subscription though.

There are a few upconverting dvd players on sale on black friday. A zenith one I think that does it to 1080p for like $50 at best buy.

Just wanted to post some updated pics of how the project is going. I just finished doing the trim peices

Here is the 2" wide trim I cut using a miterbox, you can see the velcro I attached on the back


Here is the velcro on the wall to hold the pieces in place

Test fit the pieces to the wall to make sure we got the perfect 4:3


Here they are after a few coats of Charcoal Black paint


Here is the finished product!


Few more pictures of the finished product (some are blury because i could not get my camera to Auto Focus right)

Hey barns I found another for sale at a different store on black friday. I think this one is better. I tried to find out the model number on how they advertised it. I believe it is the EP709 because they said it weighs 4.4 lbs. Let me know how it compares with the DV10 please. I know that this one has more lumens which I asume are better. I dont know if it is HD or not and Im pretty sure it isnt.

What do you mean? Black is kind of (absense of light) The projector looks fantastic in the cark the pictures where the screen looks washed out were taken with every light on.

So is the E709 better or the DV10 Movietime better?

Hmm I just realized I didnt put in the picture. Here we are a little late lol

I'm not sure, hit up www.projectorcentral.com