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That's awesome thanks
and flat black nah was thinking a semi gloss or silk and there are no windows so no light besides ceiling

Don't forget that the display is a large light source.

no lights in the room is ok, but i'm not talking about that;
i'm talking about corrupting the shadows on the screen and diminishing contrast in the images.

Explanations and examples:
Supposition 1: your wall on the side is a shiny white.
when you project an image on the screen, light will spill to the wall on the side; as the side wall is very shiny, that light will reflect back to the screen and will degrade contrast and give an overall haze effect to the image. same thing as if you were to put a light on in the room.

Supposition 2: your wall on the side is a nice green.
when you project an image on the screen, light will spill to the wall on the side; it will be strongly tainted by the green color of the wall and then will be reflected back to the screen.
you will then perceive that your images on the screen will have a distinct green overcast, in spite of the fact that your projector has been calibrated by an expert. shadows will now be green too, and not very dark.

my recommendation:
paint both side walls a neutral gray, not very light and not very dark and also the ceiling.
you only have to paint those surfaces starting a couple of inches back from the screen, right up to where you're sitting.
the paint must be matte or nearly so, to absorb the light even more.

the gray should be very acceptable - remember it was the fashion some years ago to have gray painted walls, and i think it looked very good.

if you do that, i can guarantee you will have images on your screen as good as the projector is well calibrated, the room will have no bad effect on the quality of the images.

hope this helps. :-)

We could probably change the 16 to either 15 or 17. The 8 for height is a rough guess, as we have 9 foot ceilings in the basement unfinished but will lose some when we finish. If we put the room where we think we will at the moment, the 10 across is about as wide as we can go due to the steps to the basement being in the middle of the basement.

The link is to a layout of what I'm working with, but the picture is really small. You should be able to zoom and make it bigger, but blurrier too....hopefully it helps a little.

Basement layout

your link is a sign-in page for Windows Live/Hotmail.

I had a feeling that might happen. It was working for me after I logged out of hotmail, so it was hard to tell. Unfortunately, I don't have somewhere to post it so it can be viewed and I can't attach it directly.

Just give us your password and we'll root around for it.

They'll be divisible by 1, too, no matter what. I thought they meant none of the dimensions should be the same number or have any of them being divisible (or, conversely, a multiple) of one of the dimensions.

I thought they meant that none of the walls can share a common denominator. Other than of course 1.
not quite sure about that ratio thing though ?
the 1,1.4,1.25 works, just doesn't seem right

I get if the ceiling is 7.5' then the ends of the room are 7.5x 1.4 = 10.5' so then the lenght would be 13.5'

The picture won't help much anyway now....I am reconfiguring and I think the new room is roughly 18x12 (I can modify slightly to get rid of the divisible by 2 issue) however the 12 direction takes it up to where a metal support post is holding up a beam. There is another 6 feet available past that, with a window on that wall. I'm not sure what to do about that. Possibly make the room face the other way and have the beam equal with the back row of seating, but then the window is in the back which my wife didn't like the idea of (I don't like the idea of a window at all, but I can get blackout shades or something of the sort.

We have to look at it more tonight. The media room was moved mostly so the playroom would be the first thing at the bottom of the steps, which makes more sense.