Personal Sports Bar Outfitted with 3 70-inch TVs
By Lisa Montgomery
The ultimate sports bar for an ultimate fan.

The beauty of a sports bar—besides the awesome hot wings on the menu—is the luxury of being able to watch several games simultaneously. And let’s face it, picture-in-picture on your own set at home doesn’t cut it when you’re a hard-core fantasy football fan.

To recreate the impact and viewing enjoyment of a commercial sports bar, the owner of this renovated game room choose to have three 70-inch Sharp (LC70LE732) mounted on the front wall of his 23-by-20-foot room. “One large 130-inch TV was another option,” says David Huse of Theater Advice, Frisco, Texas, the firm hired to handle the design and installation of the electronic gear, “but the three TVs seemed more authentic.”



Each TV rang up at $3,000, which helped keep the budget in line, too. “TVs of this size are usually much more then $3K, closer to $8,000 each” says Huse. While the budget-friendly TVs have “great brightness and movement control,” says Huse, they lack ISF calibration modes and deep levels of color correction.

Selecting an affordable, good-performing 70-inch flat-panel TV was the easy part; mounting them was another story. Any wall that stretches 23 feet is never going to be completely flat, says Huse. “This one buckled so much it looked like a giant wave pool.”

To get the TVs to lay flush with the wavy surface, Huse carefully shimmed each one by using pieces of rolled cardboard. Behind each Huse attached a Control4 HC-200 Room Controller. This component allows each A/V source to be wired via Category 5 cabling directly to each TV.

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