A Question About Lighting

[Patrick D Phillips]

I am shortly to purchase a 50” flat screen display for my home theatre
room to replace my Metz Artos 76cm TV. One of the things I have liked
about the Artos is the fluorescent lighting behind it. I can have all
room lights off and just use this light and it gives a very soft effect
behind the TV without interfering with picture viewing. My question is
how to best light my home theatre room with a wall mounted flat screen
and have something similar effect to the Artos? What are others using
for their home theatre lighting?

[Patric]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:09:07 +1100, Patrick D Phillips
<patrickdphillips@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am shortly to purchase a 50” flat screen display for my home theatre
>room to replace my Metz Artos 76cm TV. One of the things I have liked
>about the Artos is the fluorescent lighting behind it. I can have all
>room lights off and just use this light and it gives a very soft effect
>behind the TV without interfering with picture viewing. My question is
>how to best light my home theatre room with a wall mounted flat screen
>and have something similar effect to the Artos? What are others using
>for their home theatre lighting?

For general lighting, single tube 18w flourescents wallmounted end to
endabove and below (behind) pelmets mounted approx 1 metre below
ceiling level. for lighting while watching movies a combination of
dimmer controlled starlight downlighters 20watt(12V) interspersed with
50watt halogen down lighters. 240 or 12 volt. Room is 3 metres
ceiling height, 5 metres long by 3.8 metres wide. 16 halogen
downlighters with the starlight downlighters in the spaces between
Flours are indirect so give faily soft effect, downlighters give great
effects depending on how you mix them and how you set the levels for
each type with the dimmers. worked well with my SO, for whom the"
look" is always more inpotant than the sound!

kind regards
Dr Patric Scully

[thornton melon]

Sounds damn good,can you post some photographs?
Cheers


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thornton melon

[soundman]

thornton melon wrote:
> Sounds damn good,can you post some photographs?
> Cheers
>
>
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> thornton melon


Sorry, I have not any photos now in suitable format for posting. But I
have designed the lighting for the home theatre in the new house along
similar lines in a room of similar size. btw. the flouros don't
photograph very well on film so I will be taking tose pictures on
digital. kind regards
Dr Patric

[thornton melon]

Thanks Dr. Patrick,I'm about to re-do my rumpua room lighting and fresh
ideas will be most helpful.
Cheers


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thornton melon

[tag]

ideally any such "bias" lighting should be behind the display unit, hence
the folly of wall mounting.

also be careful not to use too bright a light.
the smpte recommends a level of less than 10% of the peak white level on the
display device. most professionals use around 5%.

and choose a tube or bulb that is not too far from 6500 deg K, that will
distort your colour perception.

[soundman]

Good one. Why not post room dimensions here l, w, &h and invite
comments


kind regards
Dr Patric