The NFL and College Football seasons are looming. Here are some of our favorite mulitple display media rooms we’d love to spend fall Saturdays and Sundays in.
August 27, 2010 | by Arlen Schweiger
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Game Room
While the 700-square-foot game room was being constructed, Audio Impact laid out its plans. The front wall would feature an arrangement of five Pioneer plasma TVs: one 60-inch display in the middle, flanked by two Elite 42-inchers on either side. Each display would be fed by its own high-def satellite receiver and controlled by the same Control4 touchpanel. It’s cool enough to be able to press one button to turn on five games simultaneously, but installer Ryan Lipkovicius took the cool factor up several notches by enabling the owners to move the images to whichever screen they want—plus operate the room’s lighting and heating and cooling—all through the one touchpanel.
Fantasy Football Paradise
This ideal sports-watching setup consists of nine plasma HDTVs. The biggest screen, a 63-inch Samsung 1080p plasma, is in the center. Above it, there are two 42-inch Samsung 720p plasmas, and below it are two 42-inch Panasonic 1080p plasmas. The remaining Samsung units were mounted to the left and right of the 63-incher.
Billiards and Touchdowns
The plasmas in here are of the Panasonic variety, but if you turn around the room has an even bigger video surprise—a 130-inch Screen Innovations screen that’s fed by a 1080p SIM2 projector. Surround-sound comes via a Klipsch THX Ultra2 7.2 speaker system, with a Denon receiver and B&K Reference amplifier.
6 Screens, 6 Jerseys
Designed and installed by the custom electronics pros at Hi-Tech Home in Clovis, Calif., the wall consists of six individual 42-inch Panasonic flat-panel displays, mounted in two horizontal rows of three. Each TV is connected to its own DirecTV high-def satellite receiver, all of which reside out of sight in an equipment closet.
Gators Guru
This homeowner had included a multiple display setup in a previous home theater. He doesn’t use his season tickets to the Swamp as much these days, so multiple displays to watch the Gators and other big SEC games and more college and pro football became a priority.
3 Screen Paradise
For this ex-college football player homeowner, a Stewart Filmscreen screen in the main theater area receives images from a Runco CL-810 single-chip DLP projector and is flanked by two 26-inch Sony Bravia 720p LCDs, while two more of the Sony LCDs hang by the bar area. The bar TVs are visible from both the billiards and card-playing areas, which flank that space.
Hockey Night in Canada
OK, so this Canadian hangout is better for hockey viewing … but there’s always the Calgary Stampeders, right? A 120-inch Da-Lite screen takes center stage in this theater as you sit below a mini jumbotron that itself features three screens.
All-in-One Man Wall
For starters, this ultimate sports fan’s fantasy features a 52-inch Vizio LCD as the centerpiece eye candy, surrounded by three more smaller Vizios. On the audio side, you get a 5-disc 1080p upconverting DVD player, iPod docking station and 1,200-watt Panasonic 5.1 theater system and a pair of wireless surround speakers. All of the cabling is completely hidden.
Game and Sports Room
Spiro Razatos’ theater area includes a large game room with 16 networked Xbox 360s and LCD monitors for real fun and games with all of his friends. It also includes personal touches like favorite football memorabilia.
LCDs, when Screen Goes Up
Busy sports Saturdays and Sundays are no problem to follow when you can tag-team the games with multiple screens—like the four high-def LCDs from Planar. They’re on the same wall as the projection screen, and easy to control in the Crestron video distribution system. And that’s when the 8-foot projection screen is retracted.
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