Woochifer
01-24-2005, 08:06 PM
Over the weekend, I caught the Home Theater Workshop on DIY Network, which normally runs a lot of that home decorating porn that makes that onerous WAF even more of a challenge! Anyway, they basically had 2 1/2 hours worth of pointers for building a home theater, setting up a dedicated room, and picking out the various components.
Most of it was really good. The advice on installing video monitors was useful (I learned that the distance to the seating position should be about 1.5x the size of the video screen). And they had some solid pointers on installing acoustical treatments, including a different DIY bass trap (just take a concrete tube form and fill it with sand, then conceal it with cloth).
Some of it was disappointing, like the advice to dedicate 10-15% of the budget to cables, and some HT installer talking about "night and day" differences with a line conditioner. But, overall it's worth viewing if you get the DIY Network on your cable or satellite service.
The show will repeat several times over the next month, and a lot of the advice is linked on their website.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_dhtw
Most of it was really good. The advice on installing video monitors was useful (I learned that the distance to the seating position should be about 1.5x the size of the video screen). And they had some solid pointers on installing acoustical treatments, including a different DIY bass trap (just take a concrete tube form and fill it with sand, then conceal it with cloth).
Some of it was disappointing, like the advice to dedicate 10-15% of the budget to cables, and some HT installer talking about "night and day" differences with a line conditioner. But, overall it's worth viewing if you get the DIY Network on your cable or satellite service.
The show will repeat several times over the next month, and a lot of the advice is linked on their website.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_dhtw