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In Reply to: what do you use for home theater lighting ?? posted by defndum on January 19, 2004 at 12:15:20:

Buy a short flourescent fixture and replace the stock bulb with one that puts out as close to 6500 kelvin as possible. I found mine at Home Depot. Then mount this on the wall behind your monitor and turn it on when watching movies. Turn the other room lights off too. This is called "bias lighting". Because the light is behind the screen, there is no glare and because it has a constant output, it does not make your pupils constrict and expand which is what they do when you watch in a dark room. "Home Theater" magazine ran an article on this a couple of years ago. You may be able to find it in the archives on their website. Good luck.

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Re: what do you use for home theater lighting ?? - Jim Cate 05:03:59 01/27/04 (0)
What, approximately, does 6500 kelvin light look like? Is this somewhat cooler or warmer, i.e., toward blue-white or toward orange-white? I'm not sure our local hardware stores will have the specs on their bulbs.
Thanks,
Jim
Re: what do you use for home theater lighting ?? - rico 11:51:44 01/21/04 (0)
I agree with this advice. You can also surround the bulb with a grey
cell to make it as close as possible to the "color" of the ambient light test sample on Video Essentials.

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