I'm mid way through a renovation project on our new sitting room, I've had agreement that I can have a home cinema and pool table (was amazed on the latter!) however this will not be a bat cave, in fact I've had to try hard to hide as much stuff as possible, flush mounted screen etc. I've designed things around a 160" (350cm wide) 16:9 tensioned screen to hang above the fireplace with the original plan of going for an Epson 9400 but that may change once the reviews on the LS12000 are out.
The room is 5.2m wide and 10m long plus a stick out bit, vaulted ceiling 6m high, the projector will hang off a roof A-frame 6.5m away from the screen just missing that chandelier. using a throw calculator it tells me i'll get 96nits using a 1.0 gain screen but only 77nits for a 0.8gain screen which most ALR screens tend to be.
as you'll see from the photos there is one large outside window which will have thick curtains with blackout liner so the room will be fairly dark, the walls are natural stone and so I'm not sure how reflective these will be. One of the images is a pano to get the whole room in which explains the distortion.
fyi, i more than likely will run an HTPC as source, i did this many many years ago for when home cinema was just beginning. (i've still got the old NEC DLP Projector!)
i know a few here are running the Epson 9400 on similar sized screens and so your comments and advice would be appreciated. ALR for this environment?
The room is 5.2m wide and 10m long plus a stick out bit, vaulted ceiling 6m high, the projector will hang off a roof A-frame 6.5m away from the screen just missing that chandelier. using a throw calculator it tells me i'll get 96nits using a 1.0 gain screen but only 77nits for a 0.8gain screen which most ALR screens tend to be.
as you'll see from the photos there is one large outside window which will have thick curtains with blackout liner so the room will be fairly dark, the walls are natural stone and so I'm not sure how reflective these will be. One of the images is a pano to get the whole room in which explains the distortion.
fyi, i more than likely will run an HTPC as source, i did this many many years ago for when home cinema was just beginning. (i've still got the old NEC DLP Projector!)
i know a few here are running the Epson 9400 on similar sized screens and so your comments and advice would be appreciated. ALR for this environment?