My IMAX Home Theater

Filed Under ( , , , ) by Joe Somebody on Thursday, March 3, 2011

I will never have true IMAX video. Thats not my goal. I just want the audio experience. Its just not cost effective in video. Now 1080P is very doable. The cost of HDTV has done down remendously over the past couple years. Even the HD projectors are becoming consumer friendly. You can get an HD projector for as little as $400 USD. That gives you 720P and 1080I. Thats really impressive. Plus they are now introducing LED projectors. The bulb in those are suppose to last from 10-20
years. Compared to a couple thousand hours you get out of the regular lamps that also cost $150-450 USD a pop. LED sounds very promising.

Right now they do not have the lumens (brightness) that you would find in a regular lamp. A couple prosumer LED projectors do exist that have very high lumens. The catch is that they are very expensive. I figure in about a year or two they will have come down in price just like blueray did.

Im thinking I will post pone the video portion of the IMAX project. I can purchase something cheap for now. I want my current Samsung HDTV to be in my room so I dont have to go downstairs to watch TV or play my PS3.

Here are a couple pictures of the base end of my system. Keep in mind that each box weighs over 200 pounds and each speaker adds another 39 each. They are a pain to move up and down stairs. The design is considered a cylinder in a square. This is IMAX or even club quality base.


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20 Responses to “My IMAX Home Theater”

  1. Anonymous on March 3, 2011 at 7:38 AM #

    Those speakers are huge!

  2. pizzafuckyes on March 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM #

    looks powerful, wish I had one of these...

  3. Kan Gebeuren on March 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM #

    How much did everything cost?

  4. Tasos on March 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM #

    Man, that's heavy. But sounds like a good value for money, bargain to me

  5. Unknown on March 3, 2011 at 9:42 AM #

    awesome!

  6. iammyself on March 3, 2011 at 10:01 AM #

    pretty awesome!

  7. Patwa on March 3, 2011 at 10:28 AM #

    wooow , awesome ^^

  8. IanFromLastNight on March 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM #

    Holy shit, why do you need speakers that big!?

  9. Brendan on March 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM #

    wow that looks awesome!

  10. Paranormal Explorer on March 3, 2011 at 12:10 PM #

    Wish I had something like that!

  11. KUSHtunes on March 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM #

    i don't think i need a imax surround sound theater haha. i like my tv just fiiine

  12. Unknown on March 3, 2011 at 1:54 PM #

    Are you compensating for something?

    ;)

  13. Siphil on March 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM #

    Woah, that looks awesome. Also I can't believe how cheap HD projectors are now, that's insane.

  14. LiveTheBoss on March 3, 2011 at 6:07 PM #

    I got an HD projector once and it didn't work out so great. Speakers look huge though...

  15. A on March 3, 2011 at 7:06 PM #

    Holy crap, I can already feel the vibrations from the explosions when you watch Transformers on those things!

  16. Something Concupiscible on March 3, 2011 at 7:31 PM #

    Sounds like it will be awesome. Good work!

  17. Raw on March 4, 2011 at 12:44 AM #

    Wow, those look really nice!

  18. Josh on March 4, 2011 at 1:53 AM #

    Richie rich would have those speakers

  19. Anonymous on March 4, 2011 at 4:26 AM #

    Whoah those look awesome

  20. Patti D. on March 4, 2011 at 5:48 AM #

    that looks insane!!

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