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I descided to put some plants in my home theater room to possisbly reduce a metalic sound to my highs. I picked this over diy sound panels to improve the wife approval factor, it was alot easier and cheaper too. I replaced the light bulbs in the cieling fans and lamps with Philips Agro-Lite 50w bulbs instead of letting in sun light which would have affected my picture quality. To my suprise these bulbs give pleanty enough light for the room. When left on they actualy reduce the glare on my glasses and increased the picture quality, colors seem more natutral and crisper as well. I have been watching movies in the lowest light level possible for so long that it's realy nice to see agian and I'm spilling my beer less too!what do you do for lighting , placement , watts, or any other things you could recommend
defndum (and has seen the light)
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Sadly my home theater room is also my living room. But I still wanted to be able for it to have the feel of a real theater. When you go into your local theater you will notice all the very soft glowing lighting in the ceiling. I installed 4 inch low voltage remodel recess cans. There is 8 in the ceiling. The trim is the a fully adjustable Nora utilizing the MR-16 EXN Whitestar 6500K lamp. Each of these trims also has a soft focus lens installed. This is all controlled from Lutrons Radio RA lighting scene system and I can dim these lights down to perfect theater feel. One can still see with even proper light throughout without sacrificing screen viewing.
Betats post seems right to me. When I run the sconces on the wall behind the projector screen my eyes feel better. No sudden light to darkness. Luckily I had read up on what he mentioned prior to building my room. Putting an actual light directly behind as he said is what I read about as well. My sconces are not directly what they recommend but I think the effect (no direct light at all but a constant light behind the screen) is fine.
Any lighting seems to "wash out" the picture on the Front projector too much. I may try putting lights behind the screen but that does not solve the problem of sufficient lighting to let me read the TV guide (or whatever) while watching an FP picture.
Buy a short flourescent fixture and replace the stock bulb with one that puts out as close to 6500 kelvin as possible. I found mine at Home Depot. Then mount this on the wall behind your monitor and turn it on when watching movies. Turn the other room lights off too. This is called "bias lighting". Because the light is behind the screen, there is no glare and because it has a constant output, it does not make your pupils constrict and expand which is what they do when you watch in a dark room. "Home Theater" magazine ran an article on this a couple of years ago. You may be able to find it in the archives on their website. Good luck.
What, approximately, does 6500 kelvin light look like? Is this somewhat cooler or warmer, i.e., toward blue-white or toward orange-white? I'm not sure our local hardware stores will have the specs on their bulbs.
Thanks,
Jim
I agree with this advice. You can also surround the bulb with a grey
cell to make it as close as possible to the "color" of the ambient light test sample on Video Essentials.
The Video Essentials Disc suggests that the light should be at a level that is about the same level as the screen. They even suggest some "backlight" around the TV. I turn off the lights over the TV and leave them on where we sit. Seems to work OK.
You guys are all too young to remember Sylvania's "Halo-light." This was a 2 inch or so border of some translucent plastic material covering what I recall as a flourescent lamp or neon tube which wrapped around the edge of the black-and-white picture tube as a border or frame. It did seem to make the picture easier to watch.
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Antonio Melo Ribeiro
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