Ambient Lighting Discussion...

[Hillside Trece]

In my current HT room, we have a fancy torch lamp that matches our room's decor in the left front corner by the sub/left main channel and a table lamp on an end table near the couches we sit on, and this table lamp contains an amber-colored night light in the base which also matches our room's colors and decor; the torch lamp additionally contains a "night light" in an amber color, but the light is so weak with this on, it hardly qualifies as a light, illuminating pretty much nothing...

When we watch films in this room, I normally keep the night light of the torch lamp on plus the night light of the table lamp, but during dark sequences, the table lamp's light is pretty distracting, coming from the side of our viewing position and casting a subtle glare on the SXRD screen. I know lighting during serious viewing sessions shouldn't come from the sides of the room like this, for exactly what we're suffering with, glare issues and distraction, but short of getting one of those lights go to behind the TV I don't know what to do in order to create an optimum environment in my viewing room...

I realize there's a sticky about this above, but do I need to invest in a light that comes from behind the screen? For the meantime, should I be leaving the table lamp night light off being that it's so prominent as it's close to us? If I leave that light off, that leaves the night light in the torch lamp, which pretty much leaves the room in total darkness, and thus we get some eye strain...