InstructorUK
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Well, what can I say? Hello everyone.
After a few years of looking around these forums for advice and reviews on what TV to buy next and the best way to set it up I stumbled upon the Home Cinema section. Looking through page after page of what people had achieved, from the top of the range custom built house to a dedicated cinema room (1 day I will have this), down to a multipurpose living room make over I just knew that I had to do something.
I have spent so many hours looking through different set ups and gathering ideas for when i got the chance to do something. Every so often when I saw something that looked good, I would save the thread in my favourites so I could run the ideas past the wife and also plagiarise little bits from each one.
What started initially as an idea to mount the TV on a false wall has snowballed into a little more as 1 idea seemed to create others. A simple case of lets do this, but in doing so means we will have to/may as well do this and this while we are at it.
I must say a lot of what I have done is thanks to my wife who is totally supportive of almost anything that I mentioned or suggested. In fact, I think I can thank/ blame her for phoning me 1 day from work saying that someone is selling a projector and 92 screen on their works classifieds. It was an Optoma HD65 with a 92 manual Panoview screen for £250. I did some very quick research and managed to secure a deal for £230.
I thought this was a good price to try out the whole cinema idea without having to spend a £1000 on a really good PJ and screen only to find its not for us. Once everything is up and running, Im sure these will be upgraded.
So, now that we had the start of a cinema set up I was ready to put all my time looking around this forum and gathering ideas to good use.
At the time of writing this thread I would say we are about ¾ of the way through to finishing so I thought it was a good time to post on here with what we have achieved so far and place it amongst the many threads of home cinemas that I have enjoyed looking at.
There will be regular updates with what has already been done and I will post them up as soon as I can when I upload the pictures and think of what to write. (Plus I should really be prepping the skirting board for painting.
I hope you enjoy looking and maybe you will see something that looks familiar from your own set up.
This is what we started with.
Panasonic TH-PZ4680B
Onkyo TX_SR506
PS3 320Gb
Xbox 360 Elite Slim
Virgin V+Hd
KEF C20 front speakers
KEF Cresta C centre speaker
Onkyo Sub and rears from the SKS-HT518 set.
This is what it looked like.
This is what I wanted to achieve. (1st attempt at Google Sketchup)
Better go sort the skirting board out now and need to go choose paint and carpet. I will put some more pics up later.
After a few years of looking around these forums for advice and reviews on what TV to buy next and the best way to set it up I stumbled upon the Home Cinema section. Looking through page after page of what people had achieved, from the top of the range custom built house to a dedicated cinema room (1 day I will have this), down to a multipurpose living room make over I just knew that I had to do something.
I have spent so many hours looking through different set ups and gathering ideas for when i got the chance to do something. Every so often when I saw something that looked good, I would save the thread in my favourites so I could run the ideas past the wife and also plagiarise little bits from each one.
What started initially as an idea to mount the TV on a false wall has snowballed into a little more as 1 idea seemed to create others. A simple case of lets do this, but in doing so means we will have to/may as well do this and this while we are at it.
I must say a lot of what I have done is thanks to my wife who is totally supportive of almost anything that I mentioned or suggested. In fact, I think I can thank/ blame her for phoning me 1 day from work saying that someone is selling a projector and 92 screen on their works classifieds. It was an Optoma HD65 with a 92 manual Panoview screen for £250. I did some very quick research and managed to secure a deal for £230.
I thought this was a good price to try out the whole cinema idea without having to spend a £1000 on a really good PJ and screen only to find its not for us. Once everything is up and running, Im sure these will be upgraded.
So, now that we had the start of a cinema set up I was ready to put all my time looking around this forum and gathering ideas to good use.
At the time of writing this thread I would say we are about ¾ of the way through to finishing so I thought it was a good time to post on here with what we have achieved so far and place it amongst the many threads of home cinemas that I have enjoyed looking at.
There will be regular updates with what has already been done and I will post them up as soon as I can when I upload the pictures and think of what to write. (Plus I should really be prepping the skirting board for painting.
I hope you enjoy looking and maybe you will see something that looks familiar from your own set up.
This is what we started with.
Panasonic TH-PZ4680B
Onkyo TX_SR506
PS3 320Gb
Xbox 360 Elite Slim
Virgin V+Hd
KEF C20 front speakers
KEF Cresta C centre speaker
Onkyo Sub and rears from the SKS-HT518 set.
This is what it looked like.
This is what I wanted to achieve. (1st attempt at Google Sketchup)
Better go sort the skirting board out now and need to go choose paint and carpet. I will put some more pics up later.