If you don’t have a TV then what do you point your furniture at?

I’m not going to claim this as my own, but it seems like an apt time to use it.

and a dining room where I have dinner on Sundays

At what time?

and a dining room where I have dinner on Sundays

At what time?

Dinner time. Obviously 😀

….after Tea Time, before Supper Time.

toby1 – Member
If you don’t have a TV then what do you point your furniture at?

Well, the furniture faces each other, clearly. 2 sofas, one either side of a table (in the middle) with an occasional chair at either end and the fire at the other. Think of it like this… no TV, a couple of sofas for folks to sit on and talk to each other by the fireside.
Clearly the Women have the kitchen to go too during such Gentlemanly chats.
Erm, like most Manor Houses I guess 😆

It does look shit having a massive telly in your main living area. We have a projector connected to AppleTV and use a white painted chimney breast as the screen (above the wood burner 😉 ). 720p projector, looks great – cost about £200 second hand and the lamp has only just needed replacing after about two years (£75). Sound is connected to a nice separates hi-fi.

Victorian house here. 32″ TV in the lounge wall mounted in an alcove, along with a Sonos 3 for music. “Media Room” is the middle sitting room. Has 42″ Pioneer plasma above the fire place, Sonos Faber home cinema speaker, rel subwoofer and a drop down 108″ projector screen. To achieve this domestic acceptance, all the AV had to be put inside a desk/cupboard, so that made selection of Onkyo receiver easy (only one that would fit). Cabling runs in conduit above the dado rail.

The high ceiling means that you never really notice the screen, so I have not bothered to cover it up. The room is not very wide, which means projector throw is an issue (as is pixelation – it’s a very old LCD PJ) and the screen comes down lower than the plasma TV, but not as low as I would like. The solid angle for viewing is larger than one might want too. Still the RWC final, F1 and films are great!

Could you not hide your giant tv and plebeian viewing habits behind a secret door in the library?

Wouldn’t the unsightly TV be resolved by hiding it behind a Picasso (or whoever)reproduction?

I still don’t know what a media room is.

A room where the focus is on the “media” (tv/projector/massive speakers) rather than being sociable.

Thats what we did, living room for socialising, drinking, entertaining, “media” room for sitting in near darkness watching films, or playing computer games.
It’s also a handy space for several hundred books.

Thats what we did, living room for socialising, drinking, entertaining, “media” room for sitting in near darkness watching films, or playing computer games.
It’s also a handy space for several hundred books.

Understood.
I feel quite inadequate in our 500m2 of open planned, minimalist palacial contemporary bespoke glass fronted home now.

A room where the focus is on the “media” (tv/projector/massive speakers)

Oh! You mean the Entertarium….

Oh! You mean the Entertarium….

That’d be the, erm, dungeon, wouldn’t it?

That’d be the, erm, dungeon, wouldn’t it?

Noooo…. That’s the Spanktuary. 😯

I can’t see whats wrong with the look of a TV. Getting a 60″ one in a tiny room is a bit daft but otherwise they are fairly unobtrusive compared to fatback TV’s.

It’s a bit pretentious hiding them away I reckon!

We have local actors watch our favorite tv programs and then reenact them in our living room 24 hours later. This way we don’t need a TV but we do have to be careful of social media to avoid spoilers.

Media Room 🙂

Last time I was in a media room, it was full of Dulbecco’s A … bottles of the stuff.

Who was it on here that had an old barn converted to a cinema room (complete with ‘Everyman Cinema-style leather seating) and at the far end he also had a games centre with a triple screen set-up for Call Of Duty?

[Quote=”Captainsausage”]I feel quite inadequate in our 500m2 of open planned, minimalist palacial contemporary bespoke glass fronted home now.[/quote]well, if you will do stupid things like living in the UK, where house prices even make bankers wince, you’ve no one to blame but yourself. 😉

If you don’t have a TV then what do you point your furniture at?

The stove, obvs. 🙂

I wonder if STW would be so judgmental if I’d used the term Home Cinema?

FWIW, the reason for wanting to hide the TV is because the room will also serve as spare room, I was going to say ‘guest bedroom’ but thought better of it. 🙂 It seems daft to dedicate a whole room of the house to guests who may only stay a couple of times a year. Why not make the most of the space for ourselves? We’d rather they don’t feel like they’re camping in a cinema when they do.

Anyhow, I came across this website for TV reviews which looks really useful:
http://www.rtings.com/

I think given our viewing distance, a TV might be a better option. The only way to site a projector screen for an appropriate viewing distance would be above a radiator, which I assume might not be ideal due to thermals moving it. Has anyone done this?

Upstairs media room..

Projector for cinema room, TV’s are big ugly things.
What distance will you be sitting from it?
Do you not have a blank wall to project the image onto?
I used my friends white/cream wall to project a huge 120/140″ picture and it worked really well.
My 42″ TV broke a few months ago, and because I had a small pocket projector (see here)already, I just got a 100″ pull down screen, and I now use that for viewing TV etc…
Despite the size, I do prefer it over having a big TV sitting in the corner all the time as I can just put it away when I not using it.

Gosh this all seems so complicated with many potential etiquette traps to catch the unaware. I have avoided such problems by having ‘a room’. And here the thing…..it’s a multi purpose room. Living room/lounge(am I posh enough for a lounge I wonder)/media room(there is a TV)/play room(kids toys scattered everywhere).

Put a smaller TV in the lounge and convert your observatory into the media/stargazing room

Gosh this all seems so complicated with many potential etiquette traps to catch the unaware

Indeed. Is it “The Home Cinema” or “The Media Room”? Films after lunch, dinner or tea?

Sorry, but LIKE!

(we have lots of books to accommodate).

Yep we use to have this, and then it dawned on us that:

a) any of it was fiction and read = throw/sell/give
b) factual, like encyclopaedia’s etc – Google knows more
c) not a lot left

So gave about a transit’s worth to a local charity, and not missed them one bit – except that we aren’t surrounded by them.

https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/bookdonors

And while we’ve a big telly, we’ve also a big room – so it looks small; proper middle class 🙂

There’s your answer. Right there.

🙂

Lightman: very interested in your projector – does it really do component input (eg from digibox) or is it only hdmi?