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The basement HT project is looking mighty fine Randy!

I'll go ahead and get the popcorn ready. May want to give me a couple of days worth of advance notice, that's a long drive out to Iowa from my place.

thanks Rick, from Florida that would be a nice drive

Speaking of Florida, last month when I was at a conference in Orlando, I was talking to a Floridian gal, she said "Oh yeah, Iowa, I know where that is, isn't that the place that grows Potatoes"

I'm really concerned about these kids that are our future. I said yep "I just jump in my horse and buggy and drive down to the General Store after stopping and seeing the Ingles family"

Dude...that is sick. Hurry up and finish it! I wanna see it in all its glory - I also want to see all those fancy flashing leds and lcds on the avrack

thanks Adam

Today was my first experience hanging a prehung door, was not as easy as I thought it was going to be..

Randy,
That's going to be a fantastic home theatre! I am envious as hell! Very nice job.
Cheers,
Shaun

Very nice looking room Randy. I look forward to seeing it finished soon. Keep up the tremendous work. Good call on hiring out the mudding. I did exactly the same as you the whole way. It took me about 3 months to hang the drywall for our entire basement, and after that dusty mess I didn't wan't the mudding/sanding to be the same. Hired out it was all done in 1 week.

Please post more pics as you go. I want to see the lens mount.

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Quote by freesey: "Dude...that is sick. Hurry up and finish it! I wanna see it in all its glory - I also want to see all those fancy flashing leds and lcds on the avrack"

I was happy to get to this point too. But soon after you find yourself turning off all LED lights you can on your equipment and using black electrical tape to cover the rest. With front projection, you want all the black level you can get in the room.

Thanks guys, I'll try to post a new pic asap. I hope to put the finish paint coat on the DIY board I'm mounting the Z2 and lens to tonight.

Randy, that is beautiful and inspiring work. Thank you very much for sharing it with the rest of us. I particularly like your elegant and ingenious QS8 mounts. It all looks just fantastic to me. I'm going to Iowa! Okay, not right away, but I'm sure more motivated now than I was before.

Thanks Tom, I appreciate the your comments. I'm going to try to get a few pics of the new mount, including the Prismasonic lens installed. Who knows, I may try to get a pic of a movie in all of its glory, 2.35. My camera is not the greatest but I'll give it a shot

ps: If you build it, they will come...:) Iowa, home of the Field of Dreams

Here are some new pics from tonight, sorry if the pictures are not that good of quality, this digital camera is like 5yrs old.

1st two shots of are my new mount, including the Prismasonic lens.






This shot is from Napoleon Dynamite, the movie is in a 1.85 aspect ratio but being displayed on my 2.35 screen. I turn the knobs on the lens to Pass Through mode so it would look just like if I had the lens removed. I don't have any masking curtains up yet for the sides, but normally I would draw them in to mask the sides, so you don't see the rest of the 2.35 AR screen.



And finally, here is a pic from Star Wars II, right before Yoda shows that age does not matter against Count Duku. This is a 2.35 AR movie, so again the height is constant, I just turn the Stretch knobs on the lens to fill the full width of my 2.35 10ft wide screen.




Randy