Home Theater Design Tool

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Audio Advice’s free online Home Theater Designer and Projector Throw Distance Calculator are powerful tools allowing you to design your dream theater. These tools produce customized designs according to your room dimensions and AV preferences. Not sure what size screen you need, or where to place your speakers? These invaluable tools take the guesswork out of designing the ideal theater.

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We sit down with Scott Newnam of @Audio Advice to discuss their projector calculator and home theater design tools that can help you design the best listening and viewing space possible. Learn how you can use these invaluable tools to design and optimize the best home theater possible. 1) Projector Calculator: Audio Advice tested the major projectors in their lab and use that data to show projector throw distance, fan noise level, vertical and horizontal offset, etc. Like the Home Theater Design Tool, they've made it super easy for anyone to use. It is already being used by a lot of home theater installation companies who want to quickly figure out where to put the projector. 2) Home Theater Design tool now has front wides and we they made a killer slider that allows designers and users to choose anywhere between optimizing for one seat versus across all seats. This is really super cool to show as you can see how it moves the Atmos and other channels as you slide it. They also have pulled in the projector calculator capabilities from that tool into this one so that if you are designing from scratch it does everything for you.

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Hah... in the 90s I had an Infinity Video Reference projector ( line doubled to 480P) shooting into a 9 1/2 foot screen in our den... with a tower of Sony ES: EP9ES (pre-pro), SL-HF1000 (super Beta), MDP-700 (LD), audio/video switcher, Sony DVD ( forget which, but it was an ES model ), Pioneer LD, PSB 5 channel system, NAD 916 amp, etc, etc, etc... I recall we had to walk around our couch to get in/out of the kitchen.... but it was worth it!

In the mid/late 90s I was working at a place doing video over IP and we got a Panasonic 40" plasma in the lab. We'd all eat our lunch in the lab and watch 480P commercials from our satellite dishes.