Wall mounting and projector advice

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I notice the image doesn't fill the full available space on the screen, do you not have enough zoom to fill the screen at that distance?

Also, what screen is it you're using as its got quite a bit of top black which is nice.

EDIT: seen its a sapphire screen

Yep, it gives me something like an 89.8" image on a 92" screen. The throw ratio of the projector isn't quite 100% to what I could achieve but at the same time I'm not going to argue over 2 inches (I'm no woman ) haha. When the lights are off you can't tell anyway.

Screen is a Sapphire SEWS200RWSF-A

Now you just need to hide that wire

Great job dude

Indeed, thats early next years plans, along with cabling in general for all the AV stuff.

 

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Your cat looks massive!

He is somewhat of a monster

Very cuddly though

 

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Very cool Phate

I wish i was still allowed large speakers, i had to sell my floorstanders in favour of baby and GF friendly Kef eggs which are utter garbage

Cheers! and that's a shame! My boss is in the same predicament! I love my floorstanders. Am tempted to upgrade next year but the sound these give are outstanding. Impressive for 10 year old speakers now. However the amp will help and thats only a couple of years old

He really looks it, and I'm used to big cats, I've got a Maine Coo n!

He weighs about 5.5kg and most of that is fluff. If anyone visits I tell them to wear light clothing...dark clothing and one cuddle with him and it's all over

To summarise, the setup is:

Optoma HD30
Sapphire SEWS200RWSF-A
Panasonic UT50
Pioneer VSX-921
HDMI Output splitter
Acoustic Energy Aegis Evo 1 Floorstanders
Acoustic Energy Aegis Evo 3 Bookshelfs
Acoustic Energy Radiance Centre (that thing is a beast)
Subwoofer is on long term loan from Raymond, will be buying a BLK next year.
Xbox One
Wii
VM Tivo
HTPC
Netgear ReadyNas 104
Far too many cables
Logitech Harmony

Total Cost - £About double what I've told my family & friends

I think there is about £3.5-£4k's worth of kit there. It's been built up over years though.

I want to upgrade the floorstanders to AE Radiance 3's as I'm that impressed with the centre.

 

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I am in the process of speaking with the planning dept about some building work on our house, as part of this i think i am going to convert one of our detached garages into a dedicated movie room. Our son will love it when he is a bit older as i could kit it out properly and we could make as much noise in there as we wanted (thinking mega subwoofers and things )

I can then clear the projector and the crap kef eggs out of the house altogether and have a nice square straight on setup again.

Would wall integrated speakers help?

My living room has become my dedicated movie room All I need is a beer fridge within reaching distance now and I'm set

 

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5.5KG is pretty heavy for a regular cat!

He is part rag doll, and they are between 5-9 (eeek as standard! So he's technically a 'light-weight' although the vets refuse to believe me.

Oh, nice set up too!

I'm in the process of doing something similar, I've got pretty much everything now bar the projector screen. After seeing StevenG's fixed screen using composite aluminium paneling, I've decided that I'm going for that over keeping my TV there with a drop down screen.

I've been building my parts up over a while as well, the last thing I did was upgrade my HTPC, and it's become extremely overkill, but oh well!

Cheers!

My HTPC annoys me. It's great but being a typical machine it needs the occasional reboot and I really can't be bothered. I'm trying to use the xbox as much as possible for streaming these days. Although I am tempted to run a VM off my iMac and use that. Will see.

 

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Mine's about 7-8KG! Most of that is also fluff and her big paws.

Awww I want a Maine ****!

I actually find I rarely have to do anything for my HTPC, I just leave it on and it does its thing. Before I upgraded it about 5-6 days ago, it had had uptimes in the months, as does my media/file server too, thinking about it. I think my media server has got close to a year of continuous uptime.

Mine's doubling as a secondary games PC too though, which goes to justifying (a bit) its overkill specs.

It's something to do with the way the amp handles the HDMI throughput. Like if I plug it directly in and skip the amp it's fine. But the graphics drivers were never the best for it so it glitches out.

Might rebuild it and spend an actual night configuring it properly to try and improve reliability.

 

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Nice J, I always said I'd get a PJ when I got my own place. Bet it feels like a sense of occasion every time the screen comes down.

I've borrowed a PJ from work a couple of times and luckily, my flat walls are matt white so it does work well.

I'd love a Harmony, still using my old Yamaha receiver (pre-HDMI) so it means I have to mess about with several remotes depending on the source. Not an issue for me but my girlfriend can't figure out how to turn anything on... despite me offering to show her.

Did you have to make the Harmony 'learn' the IR codes from the other remotes or is the in built library pretty extensive? The only thing I'd change if it was me, is to start the screen before powering on the PJ... I bet it'd look a little 'neater'

Still, not knocking your work at all. Looks great

The library is very extensive and everything I added to it it had so that wasn't a problem. I'm amazed by the thing. I was using 5-6 remotes before, now its the Harmony and the mini keyboard for the HTPC. Although I think if I get a small bluetooth receiver for the HTPC then the Harmony could control that as well! So might be able to get rid of that as well!

TBH As the projector triggers the screen I hadn't thought about seeing if I can add the screen separately till the other day actually. If so then the screen would come down much sooner. I'll take a look into it at some point No doubt it can do it, it's all just IR based.

The harmony took around half an hour once I'd decided my functions and the buttons to put them on.

It has 3 buttons along the top, you can assign 2 'functions' to each, giving you 6 options effectively.

So a quick press from left to right will give you either Xbox, Virgin media or HTPC on the TV

Holding down any of those will give you the same on the Projector. Simples!