Home construction and mounting Projector (Hope: to buy, theater, basement)

[webuser]

I am building home from scratch. I would like to know what should I make in the home construction to mount a projector on ceiling in later stages.

How a projector is mounted on ceiling?

What does it need to have in home construction, so that it wont be a hazel mounting a projector later? I mean what should be in-built in ceiling and walls to mount a projector????

1> Withhold a projector on roof.
2> Power and VCR cable to projector.


Smart people, please advice.

[ComputerConsultingLLC]

Mounting a projector on the cieling is not very hard. I did it in my basement for my home theater.

1) Have your builder run a normal electrical jack to it.
2) HAve the builder run a conduit line - so you can pull wire in the future (this conduit line is in addition to the wires you need him to pull during construction. Basically its a pipe that you can leave empty for now but then pull wire later. Put a string in the conduit line now so its easier later.
3) You want the following wires run.
a) HDMI line
b) 4 COAX cables run. These coax cables can be used for component or composite connectors. Yes you can have them run component cable, but COAX is better and you can have your home theatre guy crimp the ends for you to use whatever connectors you want.
c) run an S-video line - just for grins - you probably wont ever use it, but since your running wire - run it anyways.

As for hanging the projector - they sell universal projector mounts on ebay. But first you need to buy the projector - then you determine the mount. The projector is mounted AFTER the room is complete. The most important thing though is to select the projector before construction. Each projector has a different amount of "throw" and distance it can be away from a wall for optimum viewing. If its too far and you zoom it out - you get whats called "Screen Door Effect".. basically you see large squares on the screen b/c the resolution is too zoomed out. So select your projector - it should tell you the distance range it can go,, figure out where you want it in the room - and then have the builder run the cables to that location (or right behind that location).

Hope this helps.