http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/ Engadget Comments for Electronic House crowns 2010 Home of the Year award winners http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
why would you want a home theater on a bus? and do you spend more time at home or on buses?]]>May 4th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/Or we could get their address and rob them blind, your choice.]]>May 4th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
Yeah, really, you grab the 200pound projector and I'll take the 174inch screen. It'll be a cinch.]]>May 4th 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/Sounds like a plan to me. *smiles before putting on balaclava*]]>May 25th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
What?]]>May 4th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/no 3D?]]>May 4th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
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It’s difficult to decide what’s most impressive about this stunning theater.

(Click here for additional photos.)

The 174-inch screen?

The dusk-to-dawn time lapsed constellation-filled sky ceiling?

The 200-pound, ultrahigh-performance projector?

The airtight 350-pound custom door that seals the room like Fort Knox?

The chairs’ frosted glass cupholders that glow with LED lights?

The answer is easy: all of the above. But one factor that Jeffrey Smith of theater designer First Impressions Theme Theatres doesn’t want to understate is how utterly quiet the room is before the sound comes on, and how that impacts the impending home cinema experience.

“The first thing you do is bring guests in and go, ‘Shhh … what do you hear?’ Nothing,” Smith says. “Then we know we’ve done our job. You literally hear your heartbeat — no HVAC, footfall, electronics or projector noise — we really work hard at that.”

As guests are settling in, other aspects feed their anticipation. A walk-in mode programmed into the Crestron control system keeps the room well lit and fills the sky ceiling with daytime blue and “happy clouds,” Smith jokes.

Then show time begins. A programmed 7-minute delay lowers the lights and fades the sky into coral, magenta and finally a midnight blue. Fiber-optic LED constellations appear, and shooting stars streak overhead. When the homeowner presses play on the Crestron touchpanel’s Blu-ray page, the room fades to black and the projector and screen take over. After the film, the homeowner presses a button to trigger the effects in reverse.
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The entry to this theater is certainly not your average door.

To suppress and isolate sound as much as possible, designer First Impressions Theme Theatres installed a 350-pound, 3.5-inch thick door that effectively locks down into a threshold. Its sides and top are pushed against rubber gaskets for sealing, and the door opens and closes automatically after being pushed or pulled. Five cam-lift hinges allow the door to lift slightly out of the threshold and open.]]>May 4th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
Would love to know how they got that ceiling made, the first thing I thought when I saw the pictures was "looks rendered, wonder if it animates?". I guess it does.

I'm guessing rear projector?
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Then you have a field of vision greater than 30 degrees and that cause eye fatique.]]>May 4th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
Either I have superior eyes, or that's bogus.

And even if it did cause strain...I'd take a little to improve the experience. The only time I've gotten strain in my entire life was from my 17in Monitor.]]>May 4th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
The issue is that 1080p isn't good enough. I sit 4 feet away from my 120" screen and can see it all, but there are times when you can see pixels. I would think that at 174", if they were sitting closer, it would be an issue. And if it was 300", you would see individual pixels and it would be distracting. There are some technologies that blur the pixels though.

For some reason, I am the only person that sits in the 2nd or 3rd row at IMAX movies, and I don't get eye strain.
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4 feet away? wow...I think I'm like 10-14 feet away watching a 720p projector and I can't see any pixels.]]>May 4th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
Most of us would rather perceive everything on the screen at once without constant eye movement and strain. For that the accepted standard is a 30 degree field of vision which also does not lose big screen impact.]]>May 4th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
An idiot.

lol]]>May 4th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/TIA :D]]>May 4th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
I was wondering if they subject their poor animal to the dB's...]]>May 4th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
http://www.digitalprojection.com/BrowseProjectors/SeriesList/ProjectorList/ProjectorDetail/tabid/87/ProjectorId/51/MarketTypeId/11/Default.aspx]]>May 4th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/
Well done job really, but honestly I'd almost rather just sit and stare at the sky listening to some pink floyd and get baked. ]]>May 4th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/electronic-house-crowns-2010-home-of-the-year-award-winners/May 4th 2010 5:29PM