[Closed] Show me your media rooms

So you don't want a big telly in your lounge and you don't want a big telly in your 'media' room. But you do want two lounges is that right?

Thanks for your input 🙄

I've not got a clue what you're asking, are you asking about the downstairs lounge or the bedroom lounge/media room?
Is it you who doesn't know what they want or your wife?
Do you want a big TV or not?
Make yourself clear man!
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Thread of the weekend.

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Best bet is to buy a house with two living rooms. Having to go upstairs to watch the TV in a bedroom is more teenager than posh.

we're a bit concerned about it looking like a 'media centre'

But it's a media room. What do you expect?

Just put the telly in the lounge!

we're a bit concerned about it looking like a 'media centre' to the extent we are looking at options for hiding the TV when not in use

Brilliant! Stacking your walls floor to ceiling with books and pretending that you're well read won't fool anyone. You're "working class" at heart; embrace it. Remember to stick some movie posters (Fight Club/Pulp Fiction/Lock Stock) up on the wall to make it more authentic.

WTF is a media room when it's at home?

Is that a thing? To middle class to not have a television in the lounge?

Here you go! You can fool all your friends and your boss when you invite him round to dinner about how frightfully middle class you are, so much so that of an evening you gather around the old piano and perform the classics of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Media room. Get in the **** sea.

Jeez, guess I should have anticipated this typically STW response.

Media room ..............you know what to do !

Jeez, guess I should have anticipated this typically STW response.

Do you want some Chamomile tea?

Were it me, I'd have a 40'ish inch tv in the lounge and a full blown dedicated media room with a massive screen and an awesome sound system if I had the cash/space. Why hide the tv when you aren't watching it - surely, it's just you and the mrs who will see it?

Jeez, guess I should have anticipated this typically STW response.

WTF did you expect ?

Is that a thing? To middle class to not have a television in the lounge?

Only hoi polloi have "lounges", my dear. I'm sure it's only footballists who are legally permitted to have a "media room" as well.

Thats what the swingers grotto/ dungeon is for surely?

OP in all seriousness if you want a cinema it will look like a cinema, if you want a lounge then you will have to compromise on the TV in terms of seating arrangements. Personally I'd have the books and TV separate as you can usually do one or the other but not both. Also as far as I know projectors ain't all they're cracked up to be and need expensive relamping after a few years.

I get where you are going with this, personally Id be sodding off over to avforums or such for adult advice. Good luck.

Jeez, guess I should have anticipated this typically STW response.

I've no interest in home cinema, but I would love to have a separate music room. Is that overly middle class too?

Why don't you create an 'iceberg' house, dig down 2 or 3 stories and then you can have a proper cinema, gym and a swimming pool.

I would love to have a separate music room.

For playing - U
For listening - Non-U

HTH.

You can get short (and ultra-short) throw projectors now which can look a lot neater - some can be right up against the surface they're projecting on to.

Speakers in modern TVs are terrible as they're so thin. So you'll be needing separate speakers anyway.

How do you anticipate using these two rooms? I'm as confused as everyone else. I'd be happy with a comfy library-type lounge, then a dedicated home cinema room elsewhere.

Only hoi polloi have "lounges", my dear. I'm sure it's only footballists who are legally permitted to have a "media room" as well.

Double SNEER with added mini latent sneers. Good going!

Footballerists surely have Cinema Rooms?

Surely a media room/library is a...

Media study?

I reckon they have media suite

I wish you all the luck in the world having a room dedicated to watching tv/films whilst making it look like you dont watch tv/films in this room

For playing - U

What about one of these and you can keep your spare bedroom?

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There's normally some magazines by the bog.
Does that count?

Record a video of some bookshelves and play it on loop on your telly?

too low tech
3D holographic projection of a library

Does anyone really want a

3D holographic projection

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*adopts plum in gob voice*.....Oh dahhling, do let me show you ahh media rooom, for it's ebsolyutely...adohrable...'

Sod off you tit, It's where the telly is.

We had a "media" room. It looked like a media room. Cable conduit all round the edge of the ceiling, bloody great speakers, projector and screen. And one wall full of books/DVDs/blurays. And a massive sofa. 7 seater I think.

No idea why you'd want it to not look like a media room though. Much of the kit is too big to hide and any stuff that is easy to hide is very often form over function (Bose?), so you may as well put it in the living room. And most/much of the time you are in there, it's dark.

We have a telly in the living room too.

Our projector is a fairly basic 720 one picture quality is good unless your decide to sit a metre from it, at normal viewing distance it's as good as the HD TV we have, it'll probably need a new lamp next year, 165 quid IIRC. Considering we've already had 6 years out of it for £499 plus the screen. I don't think that's too bad, we bought it as an equivalent TV (99" 720p) was about a million quid. 😉

Might even upgrade.

Oh, our living room is upstairs, the media room was downstairs.

I say was, we did a major refit a couple of years ago. We have a play room now :/

My house is going to make my head explode in a fine red mist of class confusion when I go home tonight thank to this thread....

I have a lounge with no TV.... and a dining room where I have dinner on Sundays and at Christmas. It has a piano in it.

However, I've got a living room with an electric fire and a massive TV and a "back room" with a table and 6 chairs and a sideboard. That's where I have my tea of an evening.

I have an office and a dressing room......but I've also got a doonstairs lavvy.

I'm so confused. Am I a middle class scumbag .... or am I a posh chav?
I'm a class war refugee. Please give generously. Only £3 a month would buy me a glass of Pimms / Buckfast.

No media room though. 😳

I have a lounge with no TV

So, you live in a huge old country estate and you get your groundsmen to chase off trespassers should they manage to get past the 18 foot high brick walls and massive gates that protect your massive grounds

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So, you live in a huge old country estate and you get your groundsmen to chase off trespassers should they manage to get past the 18 foot high brick walls and massive gates that protect your massive grounds

They'd better be bloody quick about it. They need to have the ballroom floor waxed before the Duchess arrives... 😉

That's where I have my tea

There's your answer. Right there.

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

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?
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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.

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?

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 🙂

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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.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?

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..
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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 ([url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/outdoor-home-cinema#post-7140753 ]see here[/url])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.

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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

Sorry, but LIKE!

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[i] (we have lots of books to accommodate). [/i]

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.

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