Hi All,
I am thinking about getting my first PJ and I am trying to decided on the screen size and other factors. I am reading forum and articles to get my bearings but in the meantime I am re-posting (with some extra info about the room) from Epson 9400 thread to reach bigger audience and to stop OT there.
I have figured out SketchUp just enough to make it useful for my needs. Below is my room done to scale, all dimensions are exact.
On the left is 150" 16:9 and on the right is 133" (smaller 16:9 shape is LG Oled 65" for comparison). 150" with smaller than modeled here frame would fit as can be seen in the picture (throw is also about just enough) but my question is: will the beam of projector not hit my head in either of the cases (133 or 150)? The screen would be stretching all the way to the floor and actually C channel would be masking small part of 150" but as I would mostly watch cinema scope formats that does not matter that much as there would be black bars there anyway.
The room is multi-purpose. My home office / audio room and now I tough why not to add PJ . The room has one small window with blackout blind installed (not pictured on the renders, but it is on one of the side walls). All ceiling are painted white and all side walls are very light sky blue shade. Cream thick rug covers most of the floor. At this stage I am not prepared to turn it into bat cave or even paint it dark colours but at the same time I only watch after dark and I live in the middle of nowhere so there is no ambient light getting in after dark. In the future I could easily do acoustic panels but for the moment I do not want to re-paint. I think I will go with Epson 9400.
I have 0 experience with projectors so is covering the wall top to bottom with screen a good idea? I am asking from all perspectives, like eye fatigue, quality of 9400 projection at the distance of 2.85m to the 133-150" etc. everything considered. Please mention even obvious things as I might not think about them as I am that new to whole PJ thing.
I will also model how 140 and 145" would fit but as I can see that 150" could fit I might be interested in squeezing it in , unless advised otherwise. How important is to retain the black velvet frame? Modeled here screens have 12cm black velvet frame (Amazon links in my previous post).
PJ will be hanged centered at the back wall as close to ceiling as possible.
EDIT: The sitting distance to screen would be adjusted based on REW measurements, but ATM I kind of felt that 2.85m would work well purely on gut feeling and what I visually like in the room.
I am thinking about getting my first PJ and I am trying to decided on the screen size and other factors. I am reading forum and articles to get my bearings but in the meantime I am re-posting (with some extra info about the room) from Epson 9400 thread to reach bigger audience and to stop OT there.
I have figured out SketchUp just enough to make it useful for my needs. Below is my room done to scale, all dimensions are exact.
On the left is 150" 16:9 and on the right is 133" (smaller 16:9 shape is LG Oled 65" for comparison). 150" with smaller than modeled here frame would fit as can be seen in the picture (throw is also about just enough) but my question is: will the beam of projector not hit my head in either of the cases (133 or 150)? The screen would be stretching all the way to the floor and actually C channel would be masking small part of 150" but as I would mostly watch cinema scope formats that does not matter that much as there would be black bars there anyway.
The room is multi-purpose. My home office / audio room and now I tough why not to add PJ . The room has one small window with blackout blind installed (not pictured on the renders, but it is on one of the side walls). All ceiling are painted white and all side walls are very light sky blue shade. Cream thick rug covers most of the floor. At this stage I am not prepared to turn it into bat cave or even paint it dark colours but at the same time I only watch after dark and I live in the middle of nowhere so there is no ambient light getting in after dark. In the future I could easily do acoustic panels but for the moment I do not want to re-paint. I think I will go with Epson 9400.
I have 0 experience with projectors so is covering the wall top to bottom with screen a good idea? I am asking from all perspectives, like eye fatigue, quality of 9400 projection at the distance of 2.85m to the 133-150" etc. everything considered. Please mention even obvious things as I might not think about them as I am that new to whole PJ thing.
I will also model how 140 and 145" would fit but as I can see that 150" could fit I might be interested in squeezing it in , unless advised otherwise. How important is to retain the black velvet frame? Modeled here screens have 12cm black velvet frame (Amazon links in my previous post).
PJ will be hanged centered at the back wall as close to ceiling as possible.
EDIT: The sitting distance to screen would be adjusted based on REW measurements, but ATM I kind of felt that 2.85m would work well purely on gut feeling and what I visually like in the room.
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