What you are seeing in the above picture is actually the menu display of movie titles that are displayed when you want to choose something to watch. Here's what the screen looks like with a straight-on shot, with the curtains open: We have had so many people ask about this, we have prepared a new 'how to' article about implementing blackout blinds. A simple modification on the vertical window frame sides with u-channel attached by double sided tape provided a very effective blackout system. Another notable use of our motors was for his blackout blinds on the side windows. You can see the motorized curtain closer/opener system on our curtain and drapery motor kit article. here's a picture with the projector on and the curtains drawn closed: Instead, what happened is the curtains began to part, just like they used to do in a real theater, revealing a huge, high resolution 13' screen as big as the wall itself. He didn't need to roll anything down, because the wall itself was dedicated for screen use. ![]() I was trying to see where the screen would roll down from, but when he fired up the projector and sat in the Captain's chair and pushed a button that started some motors moving, I realized that the entire wall was one gigantic screen. The room and platform lighting is provided by a combination of RollerTrol and Lu-tron dimmer systems and is controlled via RF and IR blaster systems. The Italian leather reclining seats were each big enough to accommodate a small family, and the arrangement included a raised upper level for the overflow crowd. He then opened another door and I was shocked as I gazed into a cavernous room, with full blown luxurious theater seating! The 20 x 24 ft room with the cathedral at the end was 18 ft at its highest point. It is 100% fault tolerant of a single drive failure and is backed up to a DLINK NAS for complete recovery in the event of a disaster. It hosts Movie, MP3, and Photo libraries. It hosts a Servio UPNP media server as well as SMB file system. He explained that it was a 4 core liquid cooled AMD server with 12 sata drive bays, populated with 6 TB expandable to 28 TB running Lime-ware unraid. I got a little bit of a tip-off of what was to come when I realized there was a very large black power server humming away on a shelf. I was surprised when we walked past the living room, through a nondescript hallway door into a small anteroom. When he invited me over to see it, I was expecting to see something similar to my setup, with a screen rolling down with one of our motors in his living room. The CurtainCloser™ kit (pictured right) was to be part of his project. I knew he was building a new setup as he had ordered some of our motors to be used for blackout blinds and closing curtains and other functions in his home theater project. You can read about how a customer built a unit similar to mine in this ' how to build a motorized projector screen' article.īut the other day I discovered that I had been ' out theatered' by our senior production engineer. With Blu-ray at the ready, and Netflix streaming from my laptop, I figured I had something that could be considered high end. I have a pretty nice setup, with my 12 ft motorized remote control screen, my 2800w high power projector with p Epson® engine, and my 300 watt RMS Dolby 7.1 sound system.
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