Complete Home Theatre Systems
The layout and set-up of your luxury home theatre is limited only by your imagination. Modern technology today has enabled you to receive a superior level of audio and video for your home entertainment room, whose impact and realism surpasses even the best commercial cinemas. Other advanced audio technology offers options such as specialised acoustics, room sound proofing, curtain and light automation, multi-channel audio, universal remotes, custom theatre-designed carpets, and audio-optimising theatre seating.
"The secret to film is that it's an illusion"
George Lucas
Be able to enjoy a media centre that allows to to have perfected video and audio quality, no matter where you sit. Create an uncluttered and flowing layout with the new concealing techniques for your electronic-components. Projectors can be hidden in custom-made tables or bulkheads, speakers can be mounted flush with walls and ceiling, while projection screens disappear into overhead cavities.
No matter whether you are refitting a spare room, finishing a basement, or building a new home, we will help design a home theatre system to suit your needs. Simply want to upgrade the family room to have surround sound and an LCD television; or trying to create your very own cinema,we will help you to enjoy the authentic theatre experience
Home Theatre Explained
Home cinema or theatre aims to achieve the same quality of video and audio as the cinema, and reproducing it in your home. It is often difficult to differentiate between “home cinema” and a “television and stereo” setup because technically a simple television, DVD and set of speakers arrangement, can be counted as a home cinema. However, in the consumer electronics industry, most people would agree that a “home theatre” is the proper integration of relatively high-quality video output equipment with surround sound.
Designing a complete home cinima
In today's society, “home cinema” usually implies a realistic “cinema experience.” It therefore requires a set of components of higher quality than the average television and stereo system provides. The following list of parts are included in a typical home theatre system:
1. Input Devices: One or more audio/video sources. High quality formats such as HD DVD or Blu-ray are preferred, though they often include a VHS player or Video Game System. Some home theatres now include a home theater PC to act as a library for video and music content.
2. Processing Devices: Input devices are processed by either a standalone AV receiver or a preamplifier and Sound Processor for complex surround sound formats. The user selects the input at this point before it is forwarded to the output.
3. Audio Output: Systems consist of at least 2 speakers, but can have up to 11 with an additional sub-woofer.
4. Video Output: A large HDTV display. Options include Liquid Crystal Display television, video projector, plasma TV, rear-projection TV or a traditional CRT TV.
5. Atmosphere: Comfortable seating and organization to improve the cinematic effect. Higher end home theaters commonly also have sound insulation installed into the room to prevent noise from escaping the room, as well as a specialized coating to ensure correct sound absorption n the room.
Component systems vs. Theater-in-a-Box
There are two options available when it comes to the components used in a home theatre. Often high-quality home cinemas are assembled from separately chosen pieces that provide the best possible integration of sound for the equipments cost. It is possible though to buy theatre-in-a-box kits. These include surround sound speakers, amplifier/tuners for volume adjustment and to select video sources, and sometimes a DVD player; all that you need to add in order to complete this simple home theatre is usually a television and some films. Though these kits are quite inferior when compared to custom-built home cinemas, they are inexpensive and easy to install. Ambiance with Light
You
can create a perfect setting with correctly controlled lighting. With
an integrated system, as well as automatic shades and draperies, you
can adjust the aesthetics to any taste. Instead of simply turning
various lights in the house on and off, this system works together in
any combination to offer preset sequences or set schedules. You can
program different scenes for scenarios such as 'reading', 'cocktail
part', or 'movie viewing.' Imagine when hosting a party being able to
light the interior and exterior of your house in the most attractive
manner, with the press of a button!Lighting
is also very beneficial in improving the security of your home. When
approaching your driveway, from just the inside of your vehicle, you
could turn on your outside flood lights, open the garage door and
light up the hallway from the garage to the kitchen.
A master control
can be placed next to your bed, that controls the whole house's
lighting system. If a sound is heard outside in the middle of the
night, you can easily illuminate your whole exterior. If on vacation,
you can enter a set schedule that turns the lights on and off, and
has the shades open and close regularly, creating a pattern that
suggests someone is in the house, deterring possible burglars. IHE also substantially increases the value of any home.
The preset scenes
and automatic timers save electricity and money, by using the
appropriate amounts of lighting according to the occasion. This
wiring, used for the lighting system can easily be altered to command
lawn sprinkler systems, pool temperatures, automatic garage doors, as
well as your complete home theatre system. Imagine the convenience,
security and benefits that integrated lighting can bring to your
life!
Dedicated home theaters
Some home cinema enthusiasts, go so far as to build a whole room dedicated solely for the theatre and home entertainment systems. These more complex installations often have specialised, sophisticated acoustic elements, such as “room-in-a-room” construction that isolates sound and creates a nearly ideal listening environment. These advanced installations are often referred to “screening rooms” to differentiate them from simpler installations. This concept can go as far as to recreate whole cinema, with a project enclosed in a proper projection booth, specially stylized furniture, curtains in front of the projection screen, popcorn or snack machines, posters and even a piano or theatre organ. Oftentimes though, even real devoted home theaterers, pursue it to a lesser degree of dedication.
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