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The Stargate Home Theater by Visual Concepts
This screen in the Stargate Home Theater is 10 feet in diameter and is modeled after the popular Stargate Atlantis TV series and movie.
The homeowner, a huge fan of the Stargate Atlantis TV series and movie, went to Chaney, president of the Louisville division of Visual Concepts, with the idea of recreating the Stargate Atlantis for his theater.
The theater features the iconic round "Stargate" as the frame for the screen that is 10 feet in diameter. There's also dual projectors, with one projecting a round water-filled scene.
"The Stargate took about three weeks to design, and Andrew had it assembled in only three days" says Chaney.
The ceiling has beams that lead to the fiber-optic StarDome from Numinus (six feet in diameter), a ready-to-install ceiling dome with a sky mural and twinkling stars. The StarDome cove light even dims to create a sunset effect.
Other features include: THX Series in-wall Atlantic Technology Audio speakers, two Sony CX777ES 400 disc players, a Blu-ray player and a complete Control4 control system.
"The Control4 automation system controls everything including the lighting effects for the theater which are highlighted by the StarDome cove lights, and the star scape effect created with the fiber-optics we like to set the cove at about 25 percent for a pink-orange sunset glow," says Chaney.
One of the coolest features: air-piston driven pocket doors that open by a hand-swipe motion sensor.
Shane McConnell of The Sound Answer created the acoustic sound panels by replicating the wall panels used on the Atlantis TV series.
"The shooting star catches everyone's attention," Chaney says.
Click here to view the Stargate Home Theater.
Information for this article was provided by Numinus.
Update: We incorrectly reported that Andrew Caldwell is the owner of the theater. The story has been updated -- we apologize for any confusion.
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17 Comments (displayed in order by date/time)
Just saw the post by “Robin.”
Again, me being a perfectionist would never go with that idea. If the Ancients(or Stargate Atlantis design team for that matter) didn’t design it, I won’t take liberties on combining or designing my own.
Well, I take that back, if I made a completely NEW design with new symbols, and maybe a new design of the gate then, that would suffice because combining the two just seems illogical.
I mean the SG-1 gate’s symbols are tied only to the Milky way. As is the Pegasus gate. So combining them makes no sense.
Haha sorry, I am ALL about accuracy if I’m spending thousands of dollars for a Home Theater.
Me, being a perfectionist, would have actually been a bit angry on the design of the room. The Ancient design of the room is really neat and amazing, but what irks me is if he’s a fan of Stargate Atlantis, they should have used a Pegasus gate instead of a light up SG1 gate. Because the Pegasus gate prop design is basically based off of LEDs, this would have been a highly better and more accurate design.