More from work: displays to die for
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:33 pmWell, today was my first day under 10 hrs in three weeks, and tomorrow will be my first day off in that time as well. I'm exhausted.
The job is almost done; programmer is onsite starting to test the rooms, and we're looking good for the initial walk through Monday.
Here's some random pix (from a few days back) of some of the eye candy installed here, seen during preliminary testing with DVDs being played in the master rack room as sources.
Not surprisingly, I've met a lot of techs and programmers over the years who are Rush fans... somebody back there threw on the latest DVD; looks superb on the "small" projectors (NEC GT5000s).
Only audio available right now is through ceiling speakers 20 feet up, but it sounded pretty good. Go Neil!!
One of the Panasonic 65" plasmas in its cubby... we realized to our horror that with the side speakers installed, the thing was too wide- somebody (not us) had spec'd the millwork for a TV without speakers... d'oh!
But we came up with a clever way to mount the speakers sort of behind the plasmas. sounds pretty good despite being mounted "wrong".
the signal is SDI over Cat 5; looks pretty good at a normal distance, but up close one can see the normal plasma-limited quality. Obviously these photos in no way duplicate it properly.
Can you guess the movie (you geeks...)?
In the big room, the giant JVC D-ILA projector is up and running; that Crestron-controlled hideaway screen measures over 200" diagonally, somewhere just shy of 20 feet!! I'm hoping to throw my laptop up there with CFS or something soon, but for now, here's a movie similar to the first... LOL.
The daylight and room lighting was really killing the image; later I hope to get some proper shots of it with the room darkened.
even in this lighting, though, it looks much better than the photo indicates...
There is a massive Meyer 2.1 array behind the screen (which is perforated like any cinema screen)- when the screen is rolled up, one sees only the fabric wall (which is probably not sound-transparency-rated, but who knows?).
Another 65" plasma, against a very nice woven-leather wall tratment. Pretty cool.
The job is almost done; programmer is onsite starting to test the rooms, and we're looking good for the initial walk through Monday.
Here's some random pix (from a few days back) of some of the eye candy installed here, seen during preliminary testing with DVDs being played in the master rack room as sources.
Not surprisingly, I've met a lot of techs and programmers over the years who are Rush fans... somebody back there threw on the latest DVD; looks superb on the "small" projectors (NEC GT5000s).
Only audio available right now is through ceiling speakers 20 feet up, but it sounded pretty good. Go Neil!!
One of the Panasonic 65" plasmas in its cubby... we realized to our horror that with the side speakers installed, the thing was too wide- somebody (not us) had spec'd the millwork for a TV without speakers... d'oh!
But we came up with a clever way to mount the speakers sort of behind the plasmas. sounds pretty good despite being mounted "wrong".
the signal is SDI over Cat 5; looks pretty good at a normal distance, but up close one can see the normal plasma-limited quality. Obviously these photos in no way duplicate it properly.
Can you guess the movie (you geeks...)?
In the big room, the giant JVC D-ILA projector is up and running; that Crestron-controlled hideaway screen measures over 200" diagonally, somewhere just shy of 20 feet!! I'm hoping to throw my laptop up there with CFS or something soon, but for now, here's a movie similar to the first... LOL.
The daylight and room lighting was really killing the image; later I hope to get some proper shots of it with the room darkened.
even in this lighting, though, it looks much better than the photo indicates...
There is a massive Meyer 2.1 array behind the screen (which is perforated like any cinema screen)- when the screen is rolled up, one sees only the fabric wall (which is probably not sound-transparency-rated, but who knows?).
Another 65" plasma, against a very nice woven-leather wall tratment. Pretty cool.
