this 120 inch projection setup for the lounge is gonna be freaking awesome oh
no i'm gonna fall like the mount separates from
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back in our old lounge setup we had a super nice 120 inch elan vision tab
tension screen one of the nice things about that screen was that it was 4k
capable that is to say that the finish on it was fine enough that you could
actually resolve those pixels we were gonna just reuse the same one but elon
vision reaches out and they go no you want the new 8k evo reference screen so
what does that even mean i don't know let's flip it open
up oh i don't know if you're supposed to open it that way no i think probably not
that's a new one it's got an allen key in it but it's not bent now if you're a
regular viewer you probably saw our recent video on the
fancy pants epson epic vision laser projection tv setup but there's a couple
of reasons it doesn't quite work for our setup and the biggest one is right over
here our 30 000 lg signature z10 olet
that is what we're going to want a game on the projector screen comes down in
front of the tv as a large format display for movies or gaming with a big
group once we've all got our vaccinations yes get your vaccination
bill gates told me to tell you man these are some chungus brackets so
one thing to consider with this screen is we have 24 inches of black drop
that's on the top of the screen so 59 inches i think it'd probably be like
right there so it's gonna have so many holes in this wall once we figure out
whatever height we want the screen at you can twist the little knob and that sets the like lowest it'll go so when
you click open all the way it stops at that point oh it's pretty heavy Jake you
think we should just put it in with drywall anchors what if you watched our
epic vision video you'll probably remember we couldn't find a stud the
stud fighter said oh there's a stud here oh there's a stud here there's where the
actual stud is this will find the perfect spot in the middle yeah is this
right it just hangs off of these you can mount it directly to the wall you can
mount it directly to the ceiling if you have like brick let's just measure how
far this is so it's nine feet okay so maybe let's do eight feet that way we
have some wiggle room all right let's do it here okay we got a marked center
somehow no three inches seem fine enough yeah minus
just used to three inches what are you trying to do i'm just
finding studs oh ow can you get this off me i quit i haven't
even told you the interesting part yet the problem with steel stud if we're
mounting heavy screen you can't just like put a deck screw into it right so
what do you do oh you gotta get those stupid flangy things yeah oh no and the
problem is steel stud is also not very wide so you got to hit it right on the
spot you excited no the way the toggle
anchor works is you actually twist it like this put the whole thing through
the hole then you can kind of see that you can adjust it so it's
vertical so it aligns with your stud you pull this little plastic tab and it kind
of zips can you see the zip tie teeth there and then it holds it in close to the
drywall so you're actually screwing into this pre-threaded hole that's a strong
material here super cool it looks very weird hey
stand on a chair you say you know this is a rolling chair right
are you trying to kill me you weigh like 110 pounds it's fine sorry i've never
actually used this there's a button on that side yeah you gotta go this way
like the smallest amount oh how about now oh oh oh how about now oh boy how
about now are you drunk i can't see it
hold on now i am barely even touching it okay how
about now about the same but you're on the other side now what
how much do you trust me i mean you did put extra holes in the wall last time
you're not wrong oh that's a stud baby i can see it
okay there we go so yeah we're definitely in the middle of the stud because i can't turn it at all nice
first try so you were saying uh you wanted this to be more challenging and we should throw
stuff at you right how about this oh you pillow
moment of truth oh look at that it's
mint now for the projector itself we reached out to epson this is the epson 605u beam
if we put it next to the dinky little thing we had in the lounge before you
could probably fit four of them inside this it could eat them and a huge part
of why this thing is so big is the lens
it is a proper motorized unit with a
huge range of lens shift which allows the lens to actually shift the projected
image around to accommodate a wider range of mounting options you want your
projector to be mounted right in line with the center of your screen which in
our case that would require the projector to hang like five
six feet down from the ceiling which would suck because you could easily hit
your head on it when you're walking around to combat this most people end up
mounting their projector up high tilting it down to line up with where they want
their screen to be and then using keystone to fix the weird angle and make
the edges perpendicular it's not ideal because keystoning is done digitally
which means the image will no longer be native resolution which can hurt
sharpness and if you're going to spend the money on a 4k projector 4k or 8k
resolution screen the last thing you want to do is go and add keystone to it
but with proper lens shift we can have the projector just a few feet down from
the ceiling and then shift the whole image without distorting it to line up
with our screen now this guy's rated for 2600 lumens with both color and white
output but many reviewers say they saw in excess of 3 000 lumens in the
brighter modes which is sweet another thing that's cool is even though it's 4k
enhanced which means the actual projection chip is 1080p but then it
shifts over a pixel at twice the refresh rate it's not dlp like our old projector
was so instead this one uses epson's own three lcd technology which uses a prism
to split the lamp or the led light into r g and b which is then passed through
three distinct lcd panels to show the image in each given color and then those
are all combined and projected through the lens that means no rainbow effect
and typically better power efficiency we've got an 18 gigabit HDMI 2.0 we've
got serial control lan vga because we've
got a usb power port here that we can use to power our active HDMI cable and
the last noteworthy thing to talk about is mounting this was a pre-loved media
sample so unfortunately it didn't come with a mounting plate fortunately we
have a Jake and a collin and a pretty sick shop and we were able to whip up a
quick design and route out our own aluminum mounting adapter then we just
need to attach that to our benq extendable ceiling mount and boom put
the projector on it that's super upside down whatever it doesn't matter we just
need to make sure we get the distance right and according to epson's projector
calculator our screen not the wall the screen needs to be at least 11.8 feet
away 11.8 feet great dimensions right
11.8 feet but how do you measure 0.8 of a foot so fortunately ceiling grids are
a standard this is two by four so it makes it pretty easy for us to go one
two three four five six twelve now i was originally concerned when i
lined it up here that the light but i think we just put it on this side and
just move the screen over an inch it's 30 pounds so what we're just gonna mount
it to the t-bar no the actual trusses
that support the ceiling if you look at the way that they're designed it's kind
of like a little edge on each side yeah and i
measured it out so i went and bought some two by ten and i was thinking we
just cut it to that size and just looked pretty freaking easy right yeah let's do
that all right so we can worry about safety later you ready here we go let go
now yeah just put your wood in here i've given you my wood it's all in you wow
you're pretty pretty good at handling wood oh yeah i can't see a thing with
that light in my eyes oh wow that's really tight
i ah look at that okay let's see if it's
strong oh my oh no wow that was really dumb
don't worry i got this wait
nobody could have saw that coming
it's really not that heavy so oh shut up okay um
all right now i have it can you reach well look just get off the ladder it's
really heavy if you want to well you told me it wasn't i can't
get it up oh come on come on
ow okay let's try that there's only a 30 000 OLED behind
okay oh no what the power cord's over there and the
plugs over here no it doesn't matter it's going in the ceiling oh it's a good
thing that i didn't remove this in the uk because then it might have breaks it
there we go so how come we didn't go with a gray screen the problem with an
ambient light rejecting screen is that the viewing angles aren't exactly
fantastic always damn daniel how far down does it go
i think that's good that feels pretty good okay so you're on the screen yeah
yeah we're definitely good because i've got 12 feet to here oh nice i think
we'll take the mount plate and like put the rod on it just so we're getting that
corner proper and then sort of mark it and then drill it it works out to be
just about right there so just take the nuts off watch this you'll you're going
to love my nuts
Jake i need you back over here i forgot my nut washer
you got to put that on there because what the hell why did you just let go of
it why did you just i was just trying to tilt it forward what even was that can
you uh grab my tiny nut here twist
what are we doing right now they're parfait so that should oh okay
heavy projector right here do a few reps of that just ah
do we need to access these bolts i mean once it's already in there it's not
going to matter or just leave it for now just like the mount separates from
that's what i was trying to say is you can just pull it right out there's a reason we do the things we do
oh i just realized that the mount location is not necessarily the lens of
the projector oh we should do it on the other side let's do it on the other side
you're moving the thing so much every time should be fine
how's that in your eyes good i love the screen size but the
mounting process is just so tedious and this is even with a drop ceiling this is
your best case scenario
so wait what do i just pop this on there hold on put this on here first
thanks Jake that's really helpful
don't worry i got this
he's a small man on a big ladder small man big ladder episode three will he
drop the projector oh oh god i'll let it fall on me oh god the
water's in the wrong spot really is the ladder in the way oh my god hold on no
no it's it's fine it's fine
is it on i don't know
i think it's on yeah it's on it's on okay wow this is sick oh yeah i'll turn
it on so this is what we're talking about
where if we didn't have lens shift we basically have to go like this but
because we do theoretically
that's so cool i love optics for you home cinnamon nerds this is like um yeah
about every projector in the last 20 years we were getting it all aligned and
dialed in and then i realized this is a 50 foot active optical HDMI cable from
infinite cables and all of that is pretty neat except when you consider
that it is HDMI 2.1 certified so that makes it pretty
freaking baller this projector looks way better than the old one just even on the
patterns boy is this not a light rejecting screen though we're gonna have
to go close those Windows damn daniel this thing pops this is way brighter
than the old projector oh yeah for 100 the old one was 3 000 lumens but this is
definitely way brighter and the colors look way more accurate we haven't even
touched it no no calibration yet at all but they're
super rich every pixel on this thing looks so freaking sharp yeah like damn
can you see that all right here we go everyone quick get yoshi i'm yoshi screw
you you piece i love how every single one of
us has a 60 inch tv see you later buddy i'm ready to get
rubber banded oh thanks for the blue shell jackass
oh that was awesome right before the jump this is freaking awesome this was
totally worth it 100 a few moments later
i just got sniped i hate this game i was in first the entire race very and boom
fifth who's villager oh what
gigi nicole meanwhile sarah actually did end up
beating me in spite of holding her controller
not bad you're not gonna get that same HDR sparkle that you would on like a
q-led but it looks damn good and it's
huge damn this is the best projector i've ever used a lot of the time people
watch our videos about projectors and look why do people even care about projectors you just get a tv the size
it's just totally different oh jesus let me just ruin this for everybody wow
you're that guy in the theater right now yep so big shout out to esporter audio video
infinite cables clips sure they sent the speakers for lounge v1 but we're still
using them they're still awesome and of course epson thanks for sending over the
sweet projector hookup i am so ready for movie nights to continue
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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out the epic vision video that we
did i swear to you guys as much as it looks like a tv it's a projector