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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

Trackback — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:10:31 EDT

Our friends from Apartment Therapy will be the first people to remind us that not everyone has room for an enormous 100-inch plasma in their living room.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

Collins1 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:38:32 EDT

@dle5: Because if you projected onto the wall, where would you put your bookshelves?!

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

TVGenius — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:36:23 EDT

Hey, it's a more usable and functional (and feasible) design than a lot of the other crap 'designers' come up with...

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

dle5 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:30:12 EDT

Ummm, why not just project on the wall? That's what I do. I don't have any screens to hide.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

axiomatic — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:49:10 EDT

Great idea...

...if you don't have kids.

My monkeys (kids) would be swinging from this thing the very second I left the room after installing it.

axiomatic

Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

Collins1 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:28:44 EDT

I think you'll find that once something is used as a shelf for books, it actually IS a bookshelf.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

banmojo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:27:06 EDT

I think it looks great, not to mention practical. What else could we hang on the wall, storing screens surreptitiously?

Ahhh, I'm going to wait 'til the nanobot technology is available to create a perfect screen on any surface :^)

banmojo

Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

jermjerm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:17:21 EDT

@Colonel35: CURSES, you beat me to it while I was doing the math. =(

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

jermjerm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:10:33 EDT

It comes out to about a 76 in wide screen television, so it is a big screen experience. It's just not that big for a projector screen.

We'll probably see this in someone's bedroom on cribs. Not big enough for their home theater but big enough for a movie/sports star's bedroom tv.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

Colonel35 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:07:57 EDT

66.9 inches across yields a diagonal of about 76 inches (given a 16:9 ratio), which isn't huge, but is more than respectable in the kind of environment I'd imagine this bookshelf would be installed (i.e. apartment). For large, dedicated "media" rooms, you wouldn't bother with this in the first place.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

paulruby — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:56:30 EDT

76" diag is not much of a big-screen experience? Geeze. That would be awesome for reasonable sized rooms. Great idea!

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

ibelli — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:52:42 EDT

Not a horrible idea.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

xenobread — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:50:27 EDT

The Italians love to hand their book shelves such that the books touch the ceiling. If they don't, it is considered extremely uneducated and rude to the guest.

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

atomx — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:48:18 EDT

I think it's genius, assuming of course they come in larger sizes. Looks pretty good too. Keep your DVDs on the shelf!

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Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf

s017jrs — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:39:50 EDT

I don't have any wall mount book shelves mounted high enough for a projector screen.
Maybe I'm just short?

s017jrs