Several years ago I took advantage of digital fabric printing services to create functional and attractive sound-absorbing acoustic panels with movie poster art, suitable for home theater installations. Getting a hold of high-quality digital sources for movie posters sometimes presented a problem, particularly for fans of older movies. This is a great resource, and I'm already plotting on a few new pieces to make!
The total cost of the 4 posters in the OP shown there was $80 - these things aren't expensive to build!
I recently moved to a new place and we don't have a dedicated HT space any longer, which is mostly due to lack of use. Our viewing habits have changed and these days I get more value out of a dedicated VR space than we would out of a theater.
Having said that, sound-absorbing panels are useful in all sorts of living spaces and I still intend to hang my existing panels and add a few new ones should the right poster art come along.
You've piqued my interest about your VR space. What sort of dedicated VR space do you have? What kind of VR content do you watch mostly - is it traditional 2D movies or 3D/VR movies?
Well that's the thing with a VR space - the only requirement is square footage and a fast computer, so it's nothing much to look at from the outside. As far as content, we don't tend to "watch" much of anything as the real fun in VR is in interactive content.
We still watch traditional movies, but do so now in our living room on a regular flat-panel television and are none the worse off for it. My 92" projection screen is hanging on my call without a projector, and nobody is in a hurry to get it running here in the new space.
When I was s little kid in 1977 or thereabouts I wrote a letter to 20th century fox and asked if they could please send me a Star Wars poster and they mailed back this poster like in this page http://www.my-sf.com/2015/08/21/star-wars-film-review/ it was very exciting.
I am confused, are we looking at the same page? This seems like a perfectly ordinary web page when I view it. There is a photo gallery in the middle that is probably JavaScript-based, but that's working fine for me too. I clicked the zoom button and used the right and left arrows to browse through it (or swiped on my phone). I viewed it both on my phone and on my portrait mode 4K monitor, looks great on both.
I'm not disputing what you saw, just puzzled that we seem to be seeing two different things.
I wonder if the URL was changed or something? This is the one I'm looking at:
Apologies. I should have been more clearer, totally my bad. As mackwerk pointed out, it's the click-through to the actual gallery at which my comment was aimed, not the blog on which it was announced.
All museums do this; it's an understandable inability to relinquish control. If they actually just wanted people to have access to the images, they could just make a torrent. They would spring up on 100 different sites in at least 4 different ways (modern internet, you know), and people with a deeper interest could download the lot and examine them in their viewers of choice at their leisure.
People would also completely forget the source, and the museum would get very little credit for the effort put into digitizing them. Sharing this data is not naturally profitable and can't be made profitable without some form of DRM, and a terrible interface is de facto DRM. This is a typical place where the state should intervene, where huge value for the many (the sum of small value for hundreds of millions of people) is sadly outweighed by infinitesimal costs to a few (the sum of the massive labor of half a dozen people.)
Here's a build thread on how to make your own: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/19-dedicated-theater-design-co...