The Incredibles

We had our first movie showing in the new theater room – what’s it been? 8 months without a real theater setup!? What a big treat it was when we got to sit down and see a movie the way its supposed to be seen.

The Incredibles was a great movie, and even with a really rough image setup and almost no audio setup (other than to plug everything together) it was an awesome experience.

Of course, there is lots more work to do on the home theater (like mount the screen since I was just using a primer white wall to shoot the image on) – but its starting to feel like the wait has been worth it. I’m glad I didn’t sell the CRT 🙂

Mounted

After a frenzy of painting the ceiling and getting things ready to mount the projector, it’s finally up.
Ceiling Mount
With the help of 4 friends to brute force it into position it was quick work to get it up. Not having the factory mount I created one from Unistrut. There is very little worry that it will ever fall down with six 5″ lag bolts into the joists above. I’m working on finishing up a whitepaper of sorts on unistrut mounts and will post that later. [edit: the DIY guide is here in the file section]
You’ll notice the bottom (now it’s the part towards the ceiling) is black. This is Tremclad rust paint, flat black — applied with a brush! It turned out much better than I thought it would, the paint seems to level itself out and finish very smooth. Later I’ll finish the rest, I think it will look really sharp.