DIY Projector Screen & Home Theater Setup!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,154 words · ~5 min read
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so when i was a kid i had one of those super cool little tiny crt tvs ugh with
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the built-in vcr and what i would do is whenever my parents were not looking or
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i was sick or whatever is i also had a bunk bed so i would grab an extension
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cord that tv and my super nintendo and some blankets and i'd build myself like
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a a little bunk bed home theater
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so when lg showed me their pro beam projector and wanted to sponsor a
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project i immediately went why don't we bring that concept into the
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21st century so check this out right now it's just an
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ordinary bunk bed but by the end of this video it's gonna be
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a theater
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let's get everything we need for the project together pro beam projector
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and then i want an Intel nook uh do you want the gaming one or the regular one
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gaming one perfect good choice so arguably what i could have done was
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gone on to a projector screen size calculator but that's not the lightest
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tech tips way so what i'm gonna do is i'm just gonna take a sacrificial
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blanket and i'm gonna see how big of a screen we
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need is kind of where you would want to watch like right there okay you got that yeah
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okay little man you gotta uh you got yup there we go
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so we're gonna do a classic haul video here
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we got a shelf uh
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we got a vinyl blind just a pretty cheap
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one 12 millimeter thick though we've got uh some melamine finishing
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tape junk in case we have to make our own shelf
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we've got some brackets in case we have to make our own shelf
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because this one's pretty borderline and we got some plasti-dip to do like a
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black border around it diy projector screen baby so on a
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projector screen what you need to do is you need to have a black frame
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around the image area so because we're just using a cheap
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vinyl blind from the hardware store
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we need to create our own so we've got some straight spray-on
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rubber stuff we've got some masking tape we've got a measuring tape
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and we've got our vinyl blind
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um
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okay
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so that's a problem
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uh sorry honey we're not actually playing hockey right now i'm trying to cut a thing
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and i'm using the nets to hold it up it seems sturdy
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it says to turn it to but this is just like
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cotton wool silk great
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i've never done this before but the instructions make it sound fairly straightforward
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should i just wrap it right around nope that just broke it
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it just broke off self-construction
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done oh i gotta find out if 10 inches is
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actually enough
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oh yeah
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okay okay so we're still waiting for paint to
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dry which means now is as good a time as any to throw in some uh
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we actually got wow this is 32 gigs of RAM
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into our nook and
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i hope this has an os on it already it's
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a 950 pro 512 gig SSD hey
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all right rock on
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automatically prompts for new input and because my ocd requires it we are
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plugged into HDMI one cool
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is that dope is it thick
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is it sweet
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yeah is it straight pimp okay
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so this is like definitely not the most
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professional way to
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mount a projector so let's kind of
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all right all right here okay out
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okay can you take the weight i can't you
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can't
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oh i need the level and now it's stuck here
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oh oh oh oh okay i'll be right back
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okay
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uh no you don't need it for the amount of weight that i'm gonna
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have on here
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okay
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hey hey looking pretty good hey
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there we go so you know what we're just gonna run those down there
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that's not too bad actually
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um okay that's
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better than i thought it might go
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it only takes one bad
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rip right now to completely ruin it though
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this is the moment of reckoning right now
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perfect no functional
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let's find out can you hold this here for a sec
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oh okay i just hit the wall if i stand right in the middle here is
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that better so you can see all four corners
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and if you adjust the projector make sure it's still perpendicular to the wall
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to notch this into i don't really understand
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ah oh shoot
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so i just spent the last 10 minutes
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fighting with my little propped up thing and trying to put stuff under the feet
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because there's only two settings auto keystone on or auto keystone off
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didn't realize that you can fine-tune it
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boom you're done it's perfect
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i'm not gonna lie i did not come up with a more permanent
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mounting solution for these uh audio engine a2 pluses
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because our original speakers didn't end up working and because i really wasn't
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sure if this would end up being that great of a solution
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so i'm like super excited on this right now
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lg's pro beam is a small sleek eye shaped engine powered 1080p projector it
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features 150 000 to 1 contrast ratio wireless screen mirroring bluetooth
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sound web os and four corner keystone for adjusting
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your screen settings and is capable of delivering a clear image up to 120
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inches in size the best part is their illumination system is designed to last
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up to twenty thousand hours the equivalent of watching content 4 hours a
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day for 13 years big announcement lg is giving away one
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of the pro beam projectors that we featured in today's video all you got to
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do is check out the link in the video description and you can have yourself a
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super flexible super compact and not to
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mention pretty freaking sharp in terms of image
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quality looking projector for yourself so go check out that link below and you
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guys will be entered to win
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so there you have it the reviews are in best setup in the world
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