Bargain Basement Movie Room!

indyjase

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Looking through to the pool room

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Due to the horrid layout of the rear of the room the back surrounds are very close together

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The AV unit I built myself as I couldn't find anything that I like that was decently priced and exactly what I wanted. I hate looking at cables and thought that If I was going to build something that would hide the PC I might as well hide everything.

Here is the entrance to the Movie Room complete with Star Wars Pics, film cells and Yoda Puppet

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I'll take a few more pics as I have two level seating which is nice. The whole project was done on a budget of what I can find laying around in sheds and barns around the farm and stuff I'd collected and forgot about.

Equiptment wise I run a 9.2 (7.2 at any given time just whether I use front heights or back surrounds)

TV is a 46" 1080p Sharp

Reciever : Pioneer VSX-31 Elite

Bluray : Samsung BDP-1400

Speakers Polk R-300 main Fronts, Center Polk CSR, Front Height Polk RM Sats, Rears Polk OWM 3 and the subs are Paradigm Servo 15 v.1 and a custom Cerwin Vega

Mostly everything is run through my HTPC which runs 2.5TB, 10gb Ram, 6 core AMD Processor, ATI 68500 GPU and a few fans to keep it as close to silent as possible

All lighting is remote controlled (nothing fancy, cheap RF system from walmart that lets you add extra modules to it for the price of 2 pints lol!!!) Everthing is controlled with a Harmony 300 remote as there are only a couple of things to control so no need to go mad lol!!!

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My aim was to make a media room which was both cheap and fun with the bonus of being functionable at the same time.

For a budget system it rocks and most imprtantly gives me hours of fun tinkering about with stuff down there lol!!!

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions Cheers Jase.

Can someone please tell me if the pics came out as I can't see them on the save here but if you cant see them have a look on http://www.flickr.com/photos/indyjase/

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Can't see them - I think you're probably pointing the links to the wrong places - you need to ensure the link you paste into the Image URL box ends with .jpg otherwise you're just linking a web page and this won't work.
 
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Does anyone have a magnifying glass please......
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indyjase

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For some reason if I import a pic it is getting very blurry (as well as incredibly frustrating!!!) I tried 400 and it looked like a pic from a digital camera circa 1998. Any thoughts on why its doing this. I will not be beaten lol!!!! :wall:
 

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There's one :)

Click on the picture. Click on medium. Right click on the picture and copy url

When you click on insert picture on WHF,ONLY use the url. Forget assigning a size, the website will sort it out.

Looks nice btw :)
 

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This is the entrance to the movie room

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I angle the centre speaker up at the weekend and you can hear so much more on the second row now!

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Moved the side rears back another 4ft as well to give a bit more depth.

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The pool room which leads on from the movie room
 

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hahaha I was hoping no-one would notice that lol! The ceiling is a temp fix until later in the year when I can soundproof it and redo the lighting and update speaker cables and reroute everything. I built this room with a budget of shirt buttons and belly fluff, basically whatever I could find around the house and shed. In total I spent under thousand quid for everything including the gaming PC, TV,receiver, speakers ect...thank god for craigslist! I was lucky and the pool table was already here when we moved in but the space that it's in would be better for a movie room but the reason it was left is because it weighs more than the moon and would be a nightmare to shift the bloody thing. I will say that the harsh camera lighting does make it look worse, in regular viewing it looks a little less harsh on the eyes. It's a work in progress and I enjoy tinkering with it as well so it keeps me out of the misses hair! I think it'll take me 2 years before it's totally finished as there is also a gym and shower room down there as well to be sorted out in total just over 1200sq feet so it's going to be a task. When I started it was just an empty open basement with a pool table over to one side

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As you can see false walls and a complete move around since this was taken!

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I've not even started on the gym area (although to be fair the only workout I get from it is dusting it once in a while before sitting down and watching another movie lol!)

As I do more work and change things I'll post more pics.

I was thinking about adding a projector later this year but it means I'll have to make another False wall with a unit built in as I have an air con duct above the TV taking up 10 inches of ceiling space which will limit the screen size to 84 inches with a screen in front of the TV....Now if I could find 6 really strong blokes to help me move the pool table to where the movie room is and do a swap I could add a 120inch screen and turn the wood room behind it into a bar and place to house all the hi-fi equiptment.....
 

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I think I've got it lol!!! Yes it's a real dog although the misses wishes it was stuffed as he never leaves my side lol!!!!

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I'll take a few more pics tonight ! As you can see having a dedicated room is nice as the WAF has gone out the window!
 

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here are a couple of pics of previous intalls I built. The first one was the orginal layout downstairs but after that they go back a while.

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I built the rack for this one as it was a temp fix before I built the red unit over the fireplace that is the top pic

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This was a conversion of an old upstairs bedroom Part 1

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this is part 2 of the same conversion

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I then decided to cut a bloody great hole in the wall and mount everything flush to tidy it up.

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This was how it finally looked but as you can see from the pics it did take time to evolve.

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The the finished room! It seems everytime I finish an install it's either time to renovate that room or move house lol! As you can see each install gets a little better as I pretty much had to teach myself all sorts of new things as I am not a natural DIY person I just tend to have a vision and somehow make it work by trial and error

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This was an open room to start with not even walls just bare wood beams. I even had to make the clapperboard coffee table and light!

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Wall of movies!

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Well I hope some of my older installs gave a few of you a few giggles. Not the high end of installs, but a lot of fun to build and learn from building on a tight budget.....
 

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Thankyou. It just goes to show that you don't have to spend a fortune to get a great place to watch movies.

One thing I didn't really mention is how much more this latest install is PC driven as opposed to the earlier installs which started off with dvd, then HD-DVD then bluray standalone players, to now using the PC for a major part of watching movies. I tend to rip blurays to the hard drive now to save on loading times as much as anything and use Boxee for PC for anything that is not a full bluray. For blurays I use classic media player with plugins to get dts-ma and use KM player for SACD's and DVD audio's which were all put on the hard drives. Everything is streamed to various PC's around the house. Even though I am now based in the states I still can stream the terrestrial UK channels so's not to miss top gear lol! I run a second feed (component and spdif out) from the HD cable box upstairs to the back of the pioneer receiver and have a magic eye type thing so I can change channels (or I can change them via the cable companies website but that really winds the kids up changing from dora to prem footie on a saturday morning lol!!!!) The receiver is networked although I don't really use that feature as I have the PC connected.
 

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