Six millions freaking dollars ? This is ludicrous ! I worked for a vfx company on a 3D movie, we did have a setup with TWO digital cinema projectors (2K, not 4K, but in this class you pay more for light output than for definition), a much larger screen (30 ft wide) and id didn't cost a tenth of this absurdity. Reading the linked article, I discovered the existence of MUSE-enabled (Hi-Vision, that is the old Japanese HDTV) LD players by Pioneer. For the love of curiosities and dead formats (and because LD was my first experience in real home theater), I wouldn't mind having one.
Professional mastering theaters don't cost this much. Unless he is actually pouring the concrete and making the facility this is pointless.
4k projector is $100k or so retail 1k$ bd player .2k$ hd dvd player 10k$ screen 25' 10k$ cables 2k$ room lighting system 10k$ chairs seats and couches 25k$ room treatment, remodeling the room to make sounds and video pretty. MAYBE 500-1000k for a full on thx theatre setup for a full size theatre. realistically 200k 20k$ controls and intergration 20% profit and installation cost
So in reality this level of set up for a much bigger room would be 450k with a hefty profit on top.
The retard also set up TUBE amps in front of giant woofers. Tubes are vibration sensitive. His setup would be fine with solid state amps just not with tubes.
He spent $$ for the sake of spending it and didn't make the setup as Optimum as it should be for the cash spent.
@Joe: If you look through his website, you'll find that those stands under the tube amps are vibration isolators. but as far as the vibrations that come through the air - yah i dunno how he compensates for that.
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Franssu @ Feb 6th 2008 6:13PM
Six millions freaking dollars ? This is ludicrous !
I worked for a vfx company on a 3D movie, we did have a setup with TWO digital cinema projectors (2K, not 4K, but in this class you pay more for light output than for definition), a much larger screen (30 ft wide) and id didn't cost a tenth of this absurdity.
Reading the linked article, I discovered the existence of MUSE-enabled (Hi-Vision, that is the old Japanese HDTV) LD players by Pioneer. For the love of curiosities and dead formats (and because LD was my first experience in real home theater), I wouldn't mind having one.
Joe @ Feb 6th 2008 8:34PM
Dead on!
Professional mastering theaters don't cost this much. Unless he is actually pouring the concrete and making the facility this is pointless.
4k projector is $100k or so retail
1k$ bd player
.2k$ hd dvd player
10k$ screen 25'
10k$ cables
2k$ room lighting system
10k$ chairs seats and couches
25k$ room treatment, remodeling the room to make sounds and video pretty.
MAYBE 500-1000k for a full on thx theatre setup for a full size theatre.
realistically 200k
20k$ controls and intergration
20% profit and installation cost
So in reality this level of set up for a much bigger room would be 450k with a hefty profit on top.
The retard also set up TUBE amps in front of giant woofers. Tubes are vibration sensitive. His setup would be fine with solid state amps just not with tubes.
He spent $$ for the sake of spending it and didn't make the setup as Optimum as it should be for the cash spent.
Garrett @ Feb 13th 2008 7:04PM
@Joe:
If you look through his website, you'll find that those stands under the tube amps are vibration isolators. but as far as the vibrations that come through the air - yah i dunno how he compensates for that.