Tips From The Top

We’re talking these days about the evolution of home cinema. What it is, what it can do, and how we’ve seen it transform our clients’ home lives in ways they never imagined possible.

Paradise Theater, one of our premier partners for outstanding private home cinema design, recently reached out to film experts to gather their thoughts on the state of private home cinema. Their findings are pretty incredible. One message loud and clear is how the use of small devices to watch films has diminished the quality of viewership and the overall public perception of what a “home cinema” can do – and it negatively impacts the artists who make films.

We’re on a mission to change that.

Theo Kalomirakis, pioneer in design and development of opulent home theaters, told Paradise Theater about the importance of space to connect the audience with the movie. “The theater was a destination that took them ten million years away. That original experience of a private theater was lost.”

With our clients, we see how that transporting experience can be possible in the privacy and comfort of their own homes.

A number of film artists spoke about the ways in which films are viewed, and how that affects the artists making them. The ultimate experience, they agreed, is in a theater with first-rate visual and sound technology. A handheld device – the way many people watch movies these days – is the bottom of the barrel, so to speak - and cuts at the heart and integrity of the art.

The saving factor may be the private luxury home cinema.

One of our favorite definitions of private home cinema comes from Tim Sinnaeve, director of Barco’s Digital Canvas, who told Paradise Theater that private cinema is simply a dedicated space in a home to experience movies and other forms of storytelling. He defines a luxury private cinema – the kind we make possible for our clients – as a place where technology, architecture, and design come together to crate a movie experience that transports the audience into the storyteller’s world. He goes on to describe the goal is not the equipment or technology per se, but the experience that these elements make possible.

We absolutely agree.

When working with clients, we see again and again how the proper unity of equipment and technology, design and architecture, our clients’ vision and our expertise, bring together all the pieces to make the ultimate private home cinema possible. And while a projector and a screen and acoustics design are vital, it’s ultimately about the final experience of immersing yourself in the world of the film. This is why we love film, and this is what’s possible in home cinema.

To learn more about how you can have the private home cinema of your wildest dreams, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love todiscuss the possibilities.

 

*Image courtesy of Paradise Home Theater