2 AV Solutions You Need for the Ultimate Home Cinema Experience

When our team takes on a home theater project in the Newport Beach, CA area, we commit ourselves to delivering the most immersive and high-quality movie-viewing experience possible. Achieving this goal requires many steps, from getting to know our clients and their needs to proper room design to selecting the best AV products and more.

While home theater design is integral to creating an entertainment experience that rivals the commercial cinema, the products that make up your home theater system are just as important. In this blog, we explore two class-leading AV solutions that will take your movie nights to the next level.

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Barco CinemaScope Projector

Most films today are created in the ultrawide cinematic 2.4:1 aspect ratio rather than the once-popular 16:9 aspect ratio. However, because today’s popular home theater projectors have a native aspect ratio of 16:9, they display cinematic films in a letterbox format, with black bars around the image.

To eliminate these black bars, movie-watchers might enlarge the content using a zoom feature on their projector. However, zooming disrupts the viewing experience by eliminating resolution and light output. Plus, you’ll have to zoom back out when you want to watch anything in the 16:9 aspect ratio.

Another solution homeowners may consider is adding an externally mounted anamorphic lens to their projector, which stretches the image to fit the screen. While anamorphic lenses are a better option for someone who wants to preserve picture quality, they are difficult to install and can be unreliable.

Barco CinemaScope projectors offer a smarter approach to displaying cinematic content the way the director intended by using simulation-grade scaling technology to scale the image so that it fits your 2.4:1 ultrawide screen without taking away picture resolution or light output. Plus, if you ever need to switch aspect ratios for 16:9 content, your Barco projector will adjust on its own.

Barco home theater projectors bring the pinnacle of image technology to your home theater. Their CinemaScope models offer constant light output, greater resolution, instant switching between aspect ratios, and trouble-free integration with your home theater system.

 

Bowers & Wilkins CT800 Series Speakers

Honored with a 5-star rating by the What Hi-Fi? experts, the luxury CT800 Series by Bowers & Wilkins is arguably the best home cinema sound system you can put in your theater. This flagship series has been meticulously developed to deliver the ultimate in sound quality and bring your films to life.

Choose from a selection of high-performance speaker models to build a surround sound system that’s perfect for your private theater. The CT800 Series is complete with LCR speakers, a dedicated center-channel speaker, surrounds, and a subwoofer—all which become invisible once installed in your walls.

CT800 speakers feature highly advanced designs and proprietary technology to create the room-shaking roar of a jet engine to the delicate crack of a twig in jaw-dropping three-dimensional detail. Plus, they can be custom-fitted to suit your unique theater room and entertainment needs.

As an elite home theater designer and installer, our team can help create your dream private cinema featuring the latest and greatest audiovisual solutions. We work with Barco, Bowers & Wilkins, Sonus faber, CinemaTech, Sony, Pro Audio Technology, and many more class-leading AV brands. Plus, our team is HTA certified, which celebrates our unrelenting commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

To learn more or start your home theater project, schedule a free consultation by contacting us here or sending us a message in the chat box below!