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Tips to build the Perfect Home Theatre Room

 

Make Your Home Theater Room the Best Possible Ever

Building a home theater room can often be the true endpoint of home remodeling. Once you have concluded the more utilitarian work of fixing windows and installing floors, it’s time to reach deeper into the bank account and lavish attention on your entertainment needs. After all, who doesn’t need a home movie theater room?

But a home theater room is more than just a sofa and a screen. Certain requirements, like controlling outside light and the ability to cast a large enough picture, should be met in order to call this a proper home movie theater. Requirements apply both to video projectors and screens as well as to large, flat-screen TVs. When there is an exception, it is noted.

Locate the Home Theater Room in a Dedicated Space

A dedicated home theater room is a room solely dedicated to watching videos on a big screen. This means that little else happens in that home theater except for screening-related activities. And today, screening means far more than it ever did: streaming services like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu, BluRay movies, video gaming, and conventional cable TV.  

When the home theater shares space with other activities, the cinematic experience is lessened. When the non-dedicated home theater shares open floor plan space with the kitchen, cooking sounds and smells invade. When the theater is the living room, kids run around and light is difficult to control.

Spare bedrooms work fine, but they do need to be long enough so that viewers can maintain a proper distance from the screen. This is especially important with video projectors. At the extreme end, a projector needs roughly a 14-foot throw distance in order to cast a 150-inch diagonal picture, though short-throw projectors are available.

Control the Ambient Light

Ambient light means light from sources outside of the theater, such as from other rooms or through windows. With most home remodeling, you’re always trying to add more natural light. Home theaters are spaces where you want to ​limit ambient light, whether natural outdoor light or light from other rooms. Light-bleed kills video projection images and it even makes flat-screen viewing less than enjoyable. On the video projector side, you will need a projector with a high lumens rating if you have some ambient light that you cannot control. But the best way to deal with ambient light is simply to stop it before it starts, by choosing a space that already has little light, such a basement. If you cannot do this, limit the light with light-blocking curtains and shades.  
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Tips for choosing the right screen size for your Projector

Project screens are available with various functions in various sizes and shapes, as well as various colors and materials. To choose the right product for your needs, consider the main use of the projector, room size, and ambient lighting.

Choice of basic features: Where is the screen used?

Projection screens have evolved considerably compared to the original image on the blackboard used in classrooms and meeting rooms. Today, you can capture the attention of your audience and put it deeper. That’s why choosing the right features is very important.

The first thing to consider is the main use of your EMS LCD show projector. If the screen is used for meetings or conferences, it is important to select it. At regular work meetings in the same room, you can choose a high-quality electric monitor.

If you want to use your LCD EMS event project at home or in the classroom, check optimal quality. Many people use screens that are stretched or not stretched. Because it’s easy to roll, it’s a simple storage solution. The direct model has a mechanism that prevents them from climbing too fast.

Choose the right size: What is the size of the room?

After you have determined the type of screen you want to buy, select the desired size. This factor is very dependent on the size of the room. It is important to choose a proportional model for this section because it is difficult to visualize the full effect of the presentation. Likewise, a screen that is too large can disturb your audience.

So think about what you want to do with your Ems Event LCD Projector. The screen is offered in three basic formats, and each type has a different value and application. The box model has a ratio of 1: 1 and is often used for standard rendering. This traditional option is perfect for business meetings with PowerPoint presentations. If the screen is large enough, it can be used effectively in large conference rooms or auditoriums. However, the screen has the lowest image quality. Video format templates have 4: 3, which is the standard ratio for TV or computer screens. This works well for full screens and large screens, although it is important to consider the size of the space you are serving. Finally, an HDTV screen is available as a last resort. They have a 16: 9 format and offer the best display quality. Many people choose HDTV for home use, although they can provide extreme clarity in a professional or professional context.

 

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A Critical Home Theater Decision — 16:9 or 2.4?

Choosing the Right Aspect Ratio

What is aspect ratio, you ask? Aspect ratio is the ratio of the width of the screen to the height of the screen. Essentially, it describes the shape of the rectangle. Today the most popular aspect ratio for consumer video display is 16:9, which is the standard HDTV format. The numbers mean that the picture is 16 units wide for every 9 units in height.

Sometimes you will see the 16:9 aspect ratio referred to as 1.78:1, or simply 1.78. Why? Because 16 divided by 9 = 1.78. But it means the same thing. A 1.78 screen is 1.78 units in width for every unit of height.

If you are going to use a flatscreen HDTV for your home theater, you are stuck with the 16:9 format for better or for worse. Though they come in a wide variety of sizes, they are all 16:9 aspect ratio. But if you are planning to use a projector and screen, you have another option, which is 2.4:1, commonly known as the Cinemascope format. This is a wider format than standard 16:9. Many people prefer it because it matches the aspect ratio of a lot of movies being produced today.

Think about the black bars

Here is a simple fact of life: Videos and movies are made in a variety of different aspect ratios. There is no standard. So no matter what aspect ratio your screen is, you will always end up with black bars at the top and bottom of some material, and black pillars at the sides of other material. The only time you don’t get black bars is if you are viewing video or film shot in the format of the screen you are using–either a film done in 1.78 displayed on a 16:9 screen, or a movie shot in 2.4 on a 2.4 Cinemascope screen. In both of those cases, the screen frame will match the picture precisely, and no black bars will exist.

(By the way, we’re assuming you want to see the material you watch in its correct original aspect ratio, as the director created it. If you don’t, there are several ways to stretch, manipulate, or crop video images to get them to fill a 16:9 screen and eliminate the black bars.)

So in choosing between a screen aspect ratio of 1.78 vs. 2.4, you are really deciding how the various film and video formats will appear on your screen. For example, if you select a 16:9 screen, all of your 2.4 format movies will have black bars top and bottom. If you select a 2.4 screen, all of your 16:9 material will be “pillar-boxed” in the center of the screen with black columns on each side.

 

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Tips for setting up a home theatre connection hub

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A home theater requires a centralized connection point — a hub — for the A/V gear. For most people, the hub is the A/V receiver. An A/V receiver should be capable of accepting the connections from every piece of A/V gear in your home theater (with the exception, perhaps, of an HDTV tuner/set-top box) and providing a central connection and control point.

  • The A/V receiver should be the primary connection point in your home theater. If you decide to go with separate components (A/V controller, power amplifier, and radio tuner) instead of an all-in-one A/V receiver, the primary connection point should be the A/V controller.

  • Don’t connect components directly to the TV or display unit. (There are some exceptions to this, however, that are mainly related to HDTV. Refer to your device manuals for more details.) All your audio and video should be routed through the A/V receiver, which then switches — or distributes — these signals to your speakers and display. With this setup, you can switch among these video sources by merely turning a knob on the receiver or pressing a button on the remote.

    Some folks feel that sending any video through the receiver’s video-switching circuitry slightly degrades the quality of this video. However, unless you’re talking about a really high-end HDTV system, you probably won’t see the difference.

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How to get the best picture on setting up your projector

Whether big or small, setting up the projector properly is vital. One of the first things you’ll want to consider is the throw ratio: that’s how far the projector needs to be from the screen to get a particular image size.

You can work this out by looking at your projector’s manual (or, usually, on the manufacturer’s website). It looks like a number, followed by a colon, and then another number. For example, if the number is ‘1.15:1’, then for a one-metre wide picture your projector needs to be 1.15 metres back, for two metres it’s 2.3 metres back, and so on.

While most projectors are ‘long-throw’ – they need to be relatively far from the screen – others are ‘short-throw’ and can be positioned quite close to the wall and still project a large image. Whether you want a short-throw or long-throw projector should be taken into consideration before buying – it’s a lot easier to buy a different projector than it is to buy a new home cinema room!

You’ll also want to consider getting a projector screen. In fact, we’d go so far as to say a screen is vital if you want the best out of your new projector. While you can certainly use a blank wall if you want to, projector screens are specifically designed to be more reflective, so you can get a sharper, more colourful picture using one instead of your standard wall.

Also, having a solid black frame around your video that the screen provides can significantly improve contrast levels.

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