Home Cinema Hertfordshire
THE BRIEF
The client was a huge movie fan and wanted the experience of a commercial cinema in their own home. After they visited our demo facility, we started discussing ideas of what was feasible in their space in terms of speaker layout, lighting design and specification, screen sizes and automation.
THE SOLUTION
After our initial consultation we settled on a 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos configuration which meant the client would have three speakers at the front, which would be hidden behind the screen, two at the rear, one on each side of the room, four in the ceiling and two subwoofers. The AV receiver was hidden outside of the room along with the video sources so no devices were visible
Lighting control was installed in the space which meant the client had the ability to quickly set the lighting mood with a single press of a button. There was also one button to turn the Apple TV on which also turned on the projector, the AV receiver and selected the correct video source, the rest was pure entertainment.
When the movie finished, the ‘All Off’ button on the light switch turned off all the AV devices including the lights and the blinds so where previously multiples actions were required, this was now a single button press!
To keep things simple for the client we installed a Control4 system which tied everything together, the lights, blinds, projector, video sources and the sounds system, which also meant we could have a single remote control for everything in addition to using the mobile app.
