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Nice theater setup!<br />
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For over a decade I had a theater in my basement and if I can offer a suggestion that I thought really made a difference in my theater:<br />
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For a "reasonable" price (a few hundred, not thousands), you can buy "acoustically transparent" screen fabric and slap it on a frame yourself. At the time, this company was "the company" who did this: <a href="https://www.seymourav.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Seymour AV | Welcome</a> - The screen is the correct color/reflectiveness for a theater screen and you can place your speakers behind it without affecting the audio. Cleans up the center stage look and gives a more immersive experience.<br />
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Normally I'd recommend a fixed aspect ratio screen (IE: 2.4:1, AKA Cinemascope), but studios have started playing really annoying games. If you'll forgive the rant - when I built my screen I went with a 2.4:1 aspect ratio, which was great at the time because I could zoom the black bars off the screen with my projector to get a constant image height (full top to bottom screen space) and only on lesser aspect ratio movies would the sides be dead white space (which you can just cover with a normal curtain). Unfortunately it's become really F*cking "cute" to mess with aspect ratios in movies. The Dark Knight is a great example of this - bouncing between F*cking IMAX and Cinemascope aspect ratios all damn movie. Some clever assholes also decided that the bottom "black bar" space should be where subtitles go - which isn't correct at all. It may make sense on a tv where the black bars are just something you have to live with, so it's a good use of space, but when you have a projection system, you typically zoom those black bars off screen to get a bigger / fuller image. Well goodbye subtitles when you do this. IMHO there is zero reason why projector users should be looking at black bars (ever), but here we are....
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</blockquote>I am not that fancy, and I run a computer through mine, so I need the full screen size for whatever a computer outputs to. 4:3 or something. I don't know. Full 4k anyways. The computer does all the fancy stuff for me. The horizontal space is always 100% filled no matter the source, and then it has dead black space at the top and bottoms for widescreen movies.<br />
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I actually just watched The Dark knight the other day on it and I didn't mind it bouncing around between the full screen IMAX and the widescreen bits. It all just fit on my screen anyways.<br />
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It would be nifty to up the size slightly of my screen and then throw those speakers behind it, but these speakers are about 20" deep, and I am not sure I want to lose that much depth in the room. A problem for another day. I am perfectly happy with the current setup and don't plan on changing anything for a few years.</div>
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