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Awesome Star Wars: Death Star Home Theatre

dillonworks.com — This is an amazing 10 seat custom home theatre setup.

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  • BaCk1a5h, on 10/12/2007, -28/+12When's the first showing?
  • dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Looks very cool, except the pictures are pretty small. Is that a cardboard 3PO in the center of the picture?
  • haukehaien, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14That is amazing! I find myself wondering
    a) what it cost;
    and
    b) if I could build one myself for less.
  • jonjonblazezany, on 10/12/2007, -54/+2People with money make me sick BLAHHHHHH!!! (wipe,wipe)blahjhhhhh ok im better now
  • Conway, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27If you really want to see an awesome setup, check this out!

    http://theater.stevejenkins.com/gallery/complete/

    He shows how he set it up too. Amazing! It would be nice to have that kind of cash.
    • Ingwenya, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8I have seen that one before. A clear example that money cannot buy you taste. All it would be good for is watching Ben Hur and Gladiator with Charlton Heston and Russel Crowe sitting on yer lap...
    • harmlessinc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5to Ingwenya:

      Have a look at the Chicago theater:
      http://www.theaterorgel.ch/Media/Bilder/Neue%20Bilder%20Joe/BilderUSA/ChicagoTheatreInside.jpg

      The Steve Jenkins home project reminds me a lot of the older style of theaters.
    • n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9there's a fine line between "awesome" and "excessive"
    • master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the best home theatres are the ones that you can walk into and not realize that it is a theater, except for the theater seating of course
    • TylerDurden0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Yeah, that dude picked up his dress and jumped over the line with both feet at the same time. Does he know the meaning of "ostentatious?"
    • zofo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7MY GOD that has to be the ugliest cinema I have ever seen...

      IMPRESSIVE yes, tacky, tasteless and simply kitch? Totally

      *brrrrrrrrrrr*
    • Ingwenya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To harmlessinc: my point exactly.
    • MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But it's not the Death Star...cue Vader's March...
    • SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that guy is nuts :)
      check out the rest of his site.
  • s1lentslayer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This must be post-ANH. It appears the Death Star server was destroyed by Digg.
  • aragon127, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1The acoustics have to be horrible in that thing.

    I'd like to hear what type of equipment he's got in there.
    • gxti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think THX certifies crap, and I imagine the owner didn't skimp on the equipment, either.
  • SoCalDissident, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It does look amazing, but I do wonder about not only the acoustics, but how much light bounced around off the screen. If I went to that much trouble, I would recess the screen a bit into the wall (unless he's doing rear projection).
  • DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Was this actually designed by Doug Chiang or is it just based on his concept drawings?

    This site is loading for crap now.
  • Lord_Mizaru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Looks like the link is dead already, anybody cache it before it went down?
  • scaaven2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1diggfuct
  • darthmorpheus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2small thumbs of the theater:

    http://images.google.com/images?q=starwarstheater&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
  • tmibiker2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1link was dead for me
  • dbarbour, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Why don't more people user Coral Cache?
  • diggydown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1How is it that individuals can create the coolest theaters while Famous Players are, mmm, passable?

    p.s. dillonworks.com is the slowest website I've seen in ages! :(
  • mrshonuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8check out this one - he obviously has been to paris las vegas the casino a few times.

    http://htguys.com/archive/2005/September192005.html
    • Spaztic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My god that is nice. I would love to play my xbox in there!
  • liveinabin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0Why does he need so many seats? It's not like anyone is ever going to come round :)
  • TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1link is dead
  • bristolz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I'll bet this is in a home of a 'softie or ex-'softie.
  • jhub908, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4is it fully operational?

    • matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its operational!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Its a Trap!

  • iiftmlis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5From article: "Each fiber optic star field incorporated 400 individual stars. And they TWINKLED!"

    I wonder if anyone has ever pointed out to them that, in space, stars don't twinkle.
    • DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, it is based on Star Wars, where space ships have wings and space is really noisy.
  • finn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3small note.. 'twinkling stars'? um, stars twinkle because of atmosphere, out in space stars dont twinkle (i know i know, but i just couldn't help myself), then again, its vaccuum in space too, and vaccuum's suck ...argh, sometimes i go too far
    • Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sure there's no atmosphere but you have dust, planets, on/off switches and the passing star ship.
  • edto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1dugg :(

    im sure it was cool though
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Those are some ***** pictures.
  • ZoomBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That Steven Jenkins theatre is somewhat ugly just due to the fixtures. I saw him awhile ago providing a really in-depth view of the XBOX 360 and all its functions, etc and even then I thought his setup was surrounded by really ugly stuff. Oh well to each their own.
  • customgamer, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1ever since this new digg system, the 1st person that leaves a comment on a page almost always gets liek negative diggs
  • luke--, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2yeah..this is pretty nerdy...........
    • ejm508, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1nerdy stuff on digg? really?

      imagine that :p

  • SLIPSTR3AM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not sure why the final screen is in the wrong aspect ratio. The sketches show it for a correct 'epic size' 2.35:1 [most war epics, Star Wars, LOTR, are shown in this ratio], yet the final version is in 1.85:1 [romances, comedies, and smaller films usually shown in this. This is the closer of the two to HDTV]. Anyways, if clearly this was designed for movies, he would have to deal with the 'black bars' on the screen. Oh well, great job regardless. But I gotta pick on it for that flub.
  • OoSvGoO, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0That website is dead...i got lucking with the first picture, looks pretty cool from what i can see. But i wasnt able to see the rest of it
  • JimGardner1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What a ***** website of an awesome set-up.
  • pratman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I'd digg it if the site was working
  • anchorman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can get a directory listing of all the available images if you go to

    http://www.dillonworks.com/portfolio/starwarstheater/images/

  • cwbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I personally like this one better for a sci-fi movie theme:

    "The Bridge"

    http://www.reighn.com/theatermain.html
    • LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh wow I want that....all of it!
  • joxrox22, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Loser with money.
  • sygyzy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The website is terrible. It's super slow and the images are like 300x200 pixels. And there are a total of 5 images and maybe 100 words of text.
  • equusdc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
    Cardboard C-3P0: $9
    THX Soundsystem: $5,000
    Getting a sense of personal accomplishment from paying someone else to bling out your TV and barcaloungers: Priceless.

  • Julz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thats pretty cool!..... some people just have too much money.... i wish i was one of those people!
  • Acill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Shoot try over $100,000! I worked next door to a place in Phoenix called Sounds like Music that did home theatre conversions and most full room ready to go systems started at $100,000 like that.
  • diafel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1No digg because the pictures are so small, and also because the 4 pictures are spread across four meaningless pages.
  • spectrum21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah you would think someone with that much money, could get someone to build them a better website, and take better pictures...
  • Achilles1942, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that is one of the coolest things i have seen. I wish i could have a hometheeatre like that
  • Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.

    • Steele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Impressive quoting... most impressive.
  • richo1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They have experienced "the Digg Effect" Site down as we have all killed their download limit.
  • netwookiee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey! Can somebody get this guy some digg insurance!

  • gunner1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dang digg effect!
  • mroffroad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The worst website navigation ever...
  • wagimin, 10 hr 51 min ago, -0/+0http://buyhometheater.blogspot.com/
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