3D Home Theater Features 180-inch Screen

3D Home Theater Features 180-inch Screen - They say the bigger the better when it comes to viewing movies in 3D. The owners of this renovated basement took those words to heart by having their custom electronic (CE) professional install a whopping 180-inch wide screen that shifts shape to accommodate the aspect ratio of any film they happen to be watching. The CE pros at Osbee Industries, Inc., of Harrison, NY, paired the curved, acoustically transparent Screen Research screen with a Digital Projection Titan Reference 1080p 3D video projector, and added an anamorphic lens to the unit so that movies shot in a CinemaScope widescreen could be viewed in their native 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Built to house a crowd of as many as 20 people, the 20-by-30-foot space is used “heavily and equally by everyone in the family,” says Osbee Industries, Inc. president Dave Raines. For this reason, the family invested in 15 active-shutter 3D glasses from Xpand. They also made sure there was room for plenty of seating. In addition to two rows of seats and loungers, there’s room up front to toss in a few bean bag chairs.

Big, immersive video deserves an equally engaging audio experience, so Osbee equipped the space with a JBL Synthesis I system capable of pumping out 4,000 watts of power to 12 speakers and four subwoofers, all of which are hidden behind acoustic wall panels. To prevent the sound from the theater from rattling the floor of the rooms above it, Osbee isolated the newly constructed walls and ceiling from the original structure and packed the ceiling and wall cavities with sound-absorbing materials.