my home theater "build" log

[Anubis]

i cant see the pics at work but im gonna guess its the FIOS converter box

 

[purbeast0]

What is that Verizon box thing on the wall? I ask because we just bought a house about 5 months ago and we had the same thing in the laundry room. We have Comcast so I am completely lost on why there is a mysterious Verizon thing installed in the laundry room.

it is the battery backup for fios so that if you lose your power, your land phoneline will still work.

 

[purbeast0]

i've now kind of started looking into being able to control my lights from whatever tablet i end up getting, but don't know much about it. been looking at this.

http://www.amazon.com/Smarthome-2412...ref=pd_cp_hi_0

and then getting 2 of these to replace my current dimmer switches...

http://www.amazon.com/Smarthome-2477...ref=pd_cp_hi_2

i just don't know anything about remote controlling lights and if that is all i need. anyone have any experience with that stuff? the only way i would do something like this is if i don't have to run any other wires, and from the looks of this it looks like no wires are needed for this to work remotely.

 

[Durvelle27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cXuN5_RpM&feature=youtu.be

 

[Ketchup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cXuN5_RpM&feature=youtu.be

I'm sure it looked great when it wasn't blocked.

 

[Durvelle27]

I'm sure it looked great when it wasn't blocked.

it shouldn't be blocked now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cXuN5_RpM

 

[Ketchup]

it shouldn't be blocked now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cXuN5_RpM

"This video contains content from FOX, paramount_vfp, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures Movies & Shows, one or more of whom have blocked it on copyright grounds."

 

[Durvelle27]

"This video contains content from FOX, paramount_vfp, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures Movies & Shows, one or more of whom have blocked it on copyright grounds."

Video Fixed

 

[Durvelle27]

Video now working

 

[purbeast0]

finished the sanding of the patched holes last night. just not having much time after work + the gym + dinner. it was like 9:30 by the time i was done with all that. then i had to watch some shows and stuff.

and holy shit sanding the ceiling blows. definitely going to get an electric sander at some point. although, sanding on the wall was not hard at all.

tonight i'm just going to clean up downstairs and the bathroom, and hopefully this weekend i can begin painting everything. when it is all said and done i'll post some pics. really nothing special to take pics of right now since it is just a mess down there.

 

[Durvelle27]

New video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE6TVzIMqkE

 

[purbeast0]

New video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE6TVzIMqkE

not trying to be a dick or anything, but i'm not sure why you keep posting pics/vids of your setup in my build log thread. if you wanna show progress on your setup you could always start your own thread

 

[Durvelle27]

not trying to be a dick or anything, but i'm not sure why you keep posting pics/vids of your setup in my build log thread. if you wanna show progress on your setup you could always start your own thread

Oh sorry dude. will do that

:thumbsup:

 

[purbeast0]

Oh sorry dude. will do that

:thumbsup:

yea it's cool. i mean if you wanna post some here to compare that is cool too, but at least give some kind of description or something .

the video you took it is really hard to tell what is going on though. like that could be a 32" tv for all i know just because of how the video is filmed. taking videos of video also just doesn't come out as good as most of us wish it would, cause it always looks better in person. just looks extremely washed out and not very crisp in the video posted though, but again, probably due to artifacts of taking videos of videos.

 

[Durvelle27]

yea it's cool. i mean if you wanna post some here to compare that is cool too, but at least give some kind of description or something .

the video you took it is really hard to tell what is going on though. like that could be a 32" tv for all i know just because of how the video is filmed. taking videos of video also just doesn't come out as good as most of us wish it would, cause it always looks better in person. just looks extremely washed out and not very crisp in the video posted though, but again, probably due to artifacts of taking videos of videos.

yea that's true as when i took pictures it didn't look like how the movie itself looked.

which video are you referring to the first or second as the second looks small because it was hard to film and play at the same time so most of the left side and the bottom of the screen were cut off.


Edit: Videos were recorded with a iPhone 4 720p

 

[purbeast0]

just in the second one there is no frame of reference so you have no clue how big it is.

 

[Durvelle27]

just in the second one there is no frame of reference so you have no clue how big it is.

oh yea the image was projected directly on a wall as i haven't completely finished the frame yet

The screen material is Black Out cloth and the frame is made from 1x4 Poplar Wood and its 110' Diagonal

 

[purbeast0]

minor update.

cleaned up the basement today and cleaned the walls of all the drywall spackle dust, as well as the floor. so happy to see my basement finally CLEAN again!

the walls are patched and ready to be painted. going to start that saturday as i have stuff to do tomorrow night.

snapped some photos since it's clean, so here's the current state.

http://i.imgur.com/LdCcP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ifFjm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Mk6Ba.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Z9c2Y.jpg

 

[Anubis]

i like those stools

do you have a build thread over at AVS?

 

[Anubis]

also not sure if you are still looking for surrounds but ive seen like 3 pairs of T8s go up for sale recently on AVS

 

[purbeast0]

i like those stools

do you have a build thread over at AVS?

those are actually my brothers stools he brought over to watch some football for extra seats. gotta give them back to him hah. and yea i have a build thread over there in the general media room area.

i've seen 2 pairs of t8's for sale but haven't been able to come to any deal with the guys as they won't ship them out and i don't have the time right now on the weekends to drive 4 hours to ny one way to pick them up. i really shouldn't buy any speakers right now too just $$$ wise since i'm going on vacation next month. i will most likely wait until after that to buy them.

 

[Durvelle27]

@purbeast0

Here is the final finished frame. I completed it earlier today just did a final coat of black paint on it and attached the screen material

 

[purbeast0]

last night i started painting some patched walls before i went out. i got the bathroom and the holes along the beam finished last night.

http://i.imgur.com/cNakP1D.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N8WedG6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zllCECw.jpg

the yellow along the beam came out great, can't notice a thing at all. in the bathroom it was tough to sand down there so you can see a little bit that it is patched, but only if you look hard enough. it's in a corner so it isn't like people will be paying attention to detail down there.

additionally, and you can kind of see this in the picture, i am not 100% sure if the blue matches perfectly. so check this shit out...

i went to paint the blue last night, from a gallon of paint that they left, that was probably 99% full. i mean it felt brand new, but you could see paint lines down the side so they obviously used it. so i used that paint and after it was dry, it kind of didn't match 100%. like i could tell it was a bit lighter in color. so i went to the closet in the garage with all the paint and i found ANOTHER blue paint bucket, that had like 5% of the paint left in it. it looked identical to the other paint though.

so i took it inside to compare the paint codes. so the paint codes are NOT identical, they are BARELY different. here is a pic of the paint codes on the top of the can.

http://i.imgur.com/IrD5lJZ.jpg

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? it is like the previous owners trolled the shit out of me! so i tried putting a coat of that paint on, since it was 99% empty which means they obviously used it. so that is what is on there now. it seems like a better match, but STILL it does not seem 100%. i think though it might just be the edge that i can see. but like you cannot see it unless you are looking for it.

and i also won't recommend glidden paint to anyone ever again. if i could do it all over again i would not have gotten the red glidden paint, but either behr or benjamin moore. the blue paint is behr and the yellow one is benjamin moore, and you really only need 1 coating of it on to make it look nice. i did put 2 on though just because. you can just tell how much thicker the paint is than the glidden, especially benjamin moore.

here is a pic of the first coat of the red on the ceiling.

http://i.imgur.com/3DGoyji.jpg

you can see how thin the paint is. gonna need at least 2 more coats, if not 3 or 4. pain in the ass!

 

[mazeroth]

Why not a flat black ceiling?

 

[purbeast0]

Why not a flat black ceiling?

cause it would look ugly and don't want 4 colors on walls down there. also the wife didn't want that lol. i iniitially contemplated painting the whole red area black but she was not for it. and in hindsight i'm glad i didn't cause i like the dark red color.