Soldato
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I’m looking for some advice or experience from people with a temporary home cinema set up, which boils down to how much of a faff is it all to set up for ‘movie night’.
We don’t have somewhere I can dedicate to a permanent set up, so have been thinking along the lines of a floor-standing screen, projector and soundbar that can all be set up in the main living room when needed and put away when not. The sound bar can fit on the existing TV stand (and probably live there permanently as they are discrete), screen put up in front of the TV and then projector roughly in the middle of the room. We’d be sat behind and to one side of the projector to watch. I’m assuming only a trivial amount of sound lost from the projector screen being in front of the bar.
Image sources are all by the TV already, so just a case of running cables across the floor and not tripping over them.
Is this a workable idea or am I missing something crucial ? Putting a screen up and plugging cables in shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes, but I’ve no idea about the setting up of the projector part such as getting the image to the right size and in focus.
I have a rough budget of £1500 to £2000 to cover the screen, projector, soundbar and assorted spaghetti. Input sources already exist (blu-ray player, virgin TiVO and Amazon Fire with kodi side-loaded). Not looking at 4K or 3D at all. Budget can go up if something really justifies it.
We don’t have somewhere I can dedicate to a permanent set up, so have been thinking along the lines of a floor-standing screen, projector and soundbar that can all be set up in the main living room when needed and put away when not. The sound bar can fit on the existing TV stand (and probably live there permanently as they are discrete), screen put up in front of the TV and then projector roughly in the middle of the room. We’d be sat behind and to one side of the projector to watch. I’m assuming only a trivial amount of sound lost from the projector screen being in front of the bar.
Image sources are all by the TV already, so just a case of running cables across the floor and not tripping over them.
Is this a workable idea or am I missing something crucial ? Putting a screen up and plugging cables in shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes, but I’ve no idea about the setting up of the projector part such as getting the image to the right size and in focus.
I have a rough budget of £1500 to £2000 to cover the screen, projector, soundbar and assorted spaghetti. Input sources already exist (blu-ray player, virgin TiVO and Amazon Fire with kodi side-loaded). Not looking at 4K or 3D at all. Budget can go up if something really justifies it.