The Home Theater Experience
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Imagine an area of your home decorated with a cinema theme, perhaps with a popcorn machine and concession area setting outside the screening room. Your invited guests gather here for wine and conversation before the movie begins. Five minutes before the movie starts, your lighting control system automatically dims the concession area lights, signaling when you and your guests should move to your theater to enjoy this week’s latest Blu-Ray movie release. When everyone is seated, a single touch to your personalized touch screen controller dims the theater lights to viewing level, activates all your AV equipment and starts the movie.
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The Film Experience
The goal is to create a movie theater atmosphere with high definition images projected to your large film screen. The screen size, its height off the floor and how many rows of seats you have are factors to account for in your theater room design. The key is getting the sight lines right. You want the viewers to be able to see the entire screen without looking side to side or over guests' heads. Modern Media helps by laying out in computer-aided-design (CAD) format all of our dedicated front projection home theaters.
The goal is to create a movie theater atmosphere with high definition images projected to your large film screen. The screen size, its height off the floor and how many rows of seats you have are factors to account for in your theater room design. The key is getting the sight lines right. You want the viewers to be able to see the entire screen without looking side to side or over guests' heads. Modern Media helps by laying out in computer-aided-design (CAD) format all of our dedicated front projection home theaters.
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Room Design
Designing a dedicated home theater room, you should not have to worry about anything other than making things perfect for sight and sound. Modern Media can help develop plans for room size, shape, and other architectural considerations. We not only create the theater design, we build the exact theater as designed on computer and paper. We can help you with screen layout, projector, speaker and component placement. Other important considerations are how it will look and how the room can be treated for acoustics. Many magazines and web sites can give you ideas for the architectural look of your theater. Modern Media also has decorators and designers we work with on theater appointments. |
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Acoustics and Soundproofing
In designing a dedicated home theater, speaker placement is extremely important. The most important track in a film is the dialogue track which is produced through the center channel speaker. No speaker is more important than the center channel. It’s easy to get sound right when there is only one row of home theater seating. But with two or more rows, the location of the center channel becomes critical. We will help you optimize the center channel speaker selection and position.
Front left and front right speakers are installed at about a 45 to 60-degree angle with the main seating position. Use a 45-degree position if the main use of the room is movies; spread the speakers further apart if you will also be enjoying concert videos or audio. The subwoofer(s) can usually be hidden under the screen, against a wall or out of sight. Surround speakers placement can be positioned to your side and on the rear walls. You should have one or more pairs of side speakers and one pair of rear speakers. Their placement will be related to how your seating arrangement works out.
In designing a dedicated home theater, speaker placement is extremely important. The most important track in a film is the dialogue track which is produced through the center channel speaker. No speaker is more important than the center channel. It’s easy to get sound right when there is only one row of home theater seating. But with two or more rows, the location of the center channel becomes critical. We will help you optimize the center channel speaker selection and position.
Front left and front right speakers are installed at about a 45 to 60-degree angle with the main seating position. Use a 45-degree position if the main use of the room is movies; spread the speakers further apart if you will also be enjoying concert videos or audio. The subwoofer(s) can usually be hidden under the screen, against a wall or out of sight. Surround speakers placement can be positioned to your side and on the rear walls. You should have one or more pairs of side speakers and one pair of rear speakers. Their placement will be related to how your seating arrangement works out.
Ventilation - Keeping it CoolMost dedicated home theater rooms, the equipment is housed outside the room to minimize noise. It is critical for the life expectancy of components to have adequate ventilation. Your amplifier or receiver will put out a lot of heat, but the cable box, game console, Blu-Ray player will also radiate a great deal of heat. If you're use an existing cabinet, passive ventilation by drilling holes is not sufficient to exhaust the hot air. Typically, powered ventilation fans are installed in the cabinet to exhaust the hot air. Using a thermostat to control the fan is the best option.
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Controlling it AllIf a control system is difficult to operate, the enjoyment factor will drop. A well thought out remote control can make a huge difference. Reliable options exist so you can hide all your components and get perfect signals. We offer you a wide range of options.
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