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I have to really work to get my kids to want to go to the cinema - they aren't (yet) wow'd by a movie being out 'sooner' than we can see it on netflix or simila
by ljf 3y ago
I have to really work to get my kids to want to go to the cinema - they aren't (yet) wow'd by a movie being out 'sooner' than we can see it on netflix or similar, and the experience for them is just better at home. I love a great cinema trip, but we barely go once as year, as our at home set up scratches the itch.
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I have a purely 'ok' set up at home - more involved than some peoples, but nothing fancy:
In my living room I have a 120" diagonal screen (£30 from amazon) that we manually pull down the 12 to 24 times a year we use it. I have a schools short throw hd projector that was £70 delivered from ebay and then a set of £15 (2nd hand) pc speakers that are a sub and 2 speakers - all running off a 1st gen chromecast.
In my shed I have a marginally better set up of a mechanised screen (£70), then a more recent chromecast running to an hdmi splitter with optical audio out, which goes into a year 2007 5.1 sony amp (£30), with another schools projector (£130) - this set up came to about £250 all in.
If you have the room to keep the bits, I highly recommend a similar cheap set up - you can obviously spend loads more, but our cheapo living room set up does us proud and the audio is more than good enough for kids films. Means we enjoy loads of films as a family.
- cjrp 3y agoOut of interest, what sort of distance do you need from projector to screen in order to get a decently sized/focused picture?
- ljf 3y agoBarely anything, just measured the BENQ projector in the shed - the front of the projector is 65cm from the screen, and the rear (where the mirror is) is 91cm from the screen. In the shed it is ceiling mounted so just the mirror is visible as I have it built into the roof (with some fans for cooling). In the living room the similar projector just sits on the floor a similar distance. We sit at the other end of the room, so further away from the fan noise (not that there is much, esp in eco mode.)
- atlasunshrugged 3y agoThat sounds fantastic, have you looked into how to actually get access to new films though? I'd love to also set up some community theater and mainly do cinema classics, but it would be cool to also be able to show the less popular (ie not Avengers 6 or Fast and Furious 12) movies that are in theaters too, but I couldn't figure out how to get into the theatrical distribution after half a day of googling