Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from H3 Digital in Phuket!

As we step into 2024, all of us here at H3 Digital would like to take a moment to extend our warmest wishes to you, our valued customers, and to everyone in the vibrant Phuket community. May the new year bring you joy, peace, and many exciting opportunities.

At H3-Digital, we’re dedicated to transforming your living spaces into smart, comfortable, and connected environments. Whether you're looking to elevate your entertainment experience, enhance your home’s functionality, or simply make everyday life a little easier, we’ve got you covered with the latest technology.

Bring Your Home to Life with Home Cinema Rooms

Imagine watching your favourite movies and shows in the comfort of your own home, but with the immersive experience of a theatre.

With our Home Cinema Room solutions, you can turn any room into the perfect spot for a cinematic experience. From stunning projectors and screens to plush seating and ambient lighting, we design custom home theatres tailored to your needs.

Get ready for surround sound and picture quality that will make every viewing unforgettable.

Sonos Sound Systems: Sound Like Never Before

Music lovers, this one’s for you!

Sonos is the ultimate choice for superior sound quality, and we offer complete Sonos Sound System installations that let you enjoy music throughout your home with just a tap of a button.

Whether you're hosting a gathering, relaxing, or creating the perfect atmosphere for any occasion, Sonos delivers crystal-clear sound and seamless integration with your smart devices.

Control4 Lighting & Home Automation

Control your entire home with the touch of a button or a simple voice command.

Our Control4 Lighting and Home Automation solutions are designed to enhance convenience, security, and energy efficiency.

From adjusting the lighting to controlling your temperature, entertainment systems, and more—all from one smart hub—we bring the future of home automation to you. With Control4, you can create the perfect ambiance for every moment, whether you're at home or away.

Your Smart Home Awaits

As we welcome a new year, it’s the perfect time to think about how smart technology can elevate your lifestyle. At H3-Digital, we are committed to providing the best smart home solutions tailored to your needs, and we pride ourselves on our exceptional customer service and expertise.

If you’re ready to take the next step toward a smarter, more connected home in 2025, we’d love to help! Get in touch with us today to learn more about our offerings and how we can help make your home smarter, safer, and more enjoyable.

Here’s to a bright and tech-savvy year ahead!

Warm regards,

H3 Digital Team

Your Smart Home Specialists in Phuket and around Thailand.

Home Cinema Design in Phuket

Cinema design for TV based home cinema here in Phuket.

Lots of our cinemas feature projection, sometimes owners like TV's, in which case OLED TV's generally produce the best picture quality.

This is a room we designed in Sketchup that is being built out in Phuket, Thailand.

SketchUp is a popular 3D modeling software that allows users to create detailed and accurate 3D models of architectural spaces, including home cinema rooms. Here are a few reasons why using SketchUp to design home cinema rooms is a good idea:

1. Visualization: SketchUp allows you to create a 3D model of your home cinema room, which makes it easy to visualize and understand the space. This can help you make better design decisions and communicate your ideas more effectively.

2. Accuracy: SketchUp is known for its accuracy and precision, which is essential when designing home cinema rooms. You can create detailed models that show every aspect of the room, from the dimensions and layout to the placement of speakers and equipment.

3. Flexibility: SketchUp is a flexible software that allows you to experiment with different design options and make changes easily. You can try out different layouts, seating arrangements, and equipment placement until you find the perfect solution for your home cinema room.

4. Collaboration: SketchUp allows you to share your 3D models with other stakeholders, such as builders, contractors, and interior designers. This can help ensure that everyone is on the same page and working towards the same goals.

Overall, using SketchUp to design home cinema rooms is a good idea because it allows you to create accurate and detailed 3D models, experiment with different design options, and collaborate with other stakeholders effectively

It features a fabric front wall, THX Speakers from Klipsch and acoustic panelling to the sides and rear walls.

It's going to look and sound great!

If you'd like to transform space in your home into an amazing cinema room please get in touch, we'd love to speak with you and help make it happen.

Acoustic Treatment

Huge 3D Skyline acoustic diffusor.

The acoustics is possibly one of the the most important parts of a home cinema design.Here spending time and money wisely here can increase the performance of the audio equipment exponentially.

By using a mix of absorption, scattering and diffusion we make the room sound great, speakers and amps sound and work better.

The Bass sounds tighter and fuller. Speech and dialogue sound clearer and easier to hear. Movies and TV are more enjoyable to watch.

Here is a huge 3d Skyline diffusor we built by hand, It took a lot of time and effort but it makes this cinema room sound awesome.

Skyline diffusers use wood columns of different lengths mounted on a wall for a similar purpose to a quadratic diffuser. A skyline diffuser is called that because it looks like a city skyline from the side. .

Samui Home Cinema

Beautiful renders are here for one of our latest home cinemas that we are building over in Samui, Thailand.

Renders let us visualise exactly how the project will look, in terms of all the colours, seats, screens and textures, before it eventually all gets built out.

They give the owner a real feeling of how the room will turn out, its a great time for the homeowner to see how it will fit into his home. The above render shows how the home cinema in Samui will look as the viewers look towards the cinema screen from the middle row of seats.

Next we have a render showing how the cinema seating area looks from the side, textures and colours give a real feeling for how the cinema will turn out.

The final render of the Samui Home Cinema shows how it looks in the dark, the starlight ceiling looks fantastic and the fabric panels work great against the other textures of the room.

Home Cinema Design

We specialise in home cinema, audio and lights for the modern Smart Home.

The first step in the drawings and designing the cinema is our initial 2D design, here we work out throw distances, screen size, seating positions and the acoustics positions and room responses for all of the speakers.

Designing the top down layout allows us to position everything perfectly for the room, so that the end cinema will look and sound great.

Top Down 2D Cinema Design

Forward Facing 2D Cinema Design

Next stage we render the cinema in 3D in Sketchup.

This gives us more freedom to explore the space, colours, seat layout and get a more comprehensive feel of the room.
We can explore what colours work best, what works on the walls and it gives us a real good overview of the viewing experience.

Simple 3D Design in Sketchup

SImple 3D Design in Sketchup

After this stage, once the initial simple design has been finished off some of our clients want a full 3D render so they can get a photo realistic view of what their installation, seating and lights etc… will look like upon completion.

Phuket Villa Sonos Audio Install

Sonos Multiroom Audio and Home Cinema Install In Phuket

H3 Digital are excited to be installing the latest in Smart Home technology into another beautiful Villa here in Phuket. With the worldwide pandemic still ongoing it makes sense to make home life as comfortable and fun as possible and get ready for new guests once it’s all over.

This awesome Phuket Villa Features;

5 zones of Sonos Multiroom Audio, powered by Sonos Amps - These allow you to enjoy stereo sound for shows, films, and video games and are connected to in-ceiling and outdoor speakers.

3 Home Cinema Surround Sound Systems - The Lounge and Two Master Bedrooms are going to be able to watch movies in full surround sound, for the ultimate in film immersion.

All this will be supported by the rock solid Ubiquiti Wifi system. Ubiquiti is the Prosumer system that will mean the homeowner has no patchy wifi reception, dropped calls or

The lucky owner of this Phuket Villa will be able to listen to all his favourite music anywhere in his home (and outside by the swimming pool) and watch movies in his lounge and bedrooms with full surround sound.

Underwater Speakers - The swimming pool also features underwater speakers, you can listen to music under the water, or play whale noises for some cool ambience, its up to you.

If you'd like your villa to feature the latest in Smart Home technology then get in touch with H3-Digital.

Logitech Harmony Discontinued

Logitech announced the discontinuation of the Logitech Harmony line of universal remote controls. Made famous by such models as the Harmony ONE, Harmony Elite, Harmony Touch and Harmony Hub. The harmony hub is though to have sold more than one million units, so for many its come as a surprise. For a remote control hub to have sold do many units they must have been doing something right?

Its though the decision lies in the fact that most TV’s, Amplifiers even Subwoofers now have their own apps or range of apps, as well as the apps from Netflix, Disney+ etc… Less and less equipment is being driven by Infra-Red (IR) signals and most people have a phone in their pocket at all times.

Still it’s a shame, we’ve installed hundreds of logitech harmony remotes over the years and found them to be reliable and fairly cost effective way to give our customers a one-touch experience.

Going forward here in Thailand, we will continue to use the Neeo remote from Control4 for those with a smart home, which we first spotted a few years ago at ISE and have to have a think about what remotes to use for one-off home cinemas and living rooms.

Phuket Villa Install - Wifi, CCTV, Sonos, Audio & Home CInema

Equipment just arrived for an install we have going on in a beautiful villa here in Phuket.

The owners wanted a rock solid internet and wifi experience. We are installing a full Unifi system from Ubiquiti. This consists of 4 wireless access points, a cloud Key, powered ethernet switch. For security they’ve got 7 Ubiquiti Bullet cameras going in.

Outdoors we have Quest speakers with Nuvo in-ceiling speakers going inside. All powered by the latest Sonos Amplifiers so they can listen to all of their music all over their home.

The villa will also feature a bedroom home cinema system, with a motorised drop down screen and full surround sound, ensuring the owners will always have great entertainment options all over their new home.

Home Cinema in the UK

If you are in the UK and looking for a custom home cinema room then you might like to take a look at what our UK based partner company Cinema@Home are up to.

here’s the link - https://cinema-at-home.co.uk/blog/home-cinema-demo-room-week1

Specialising solely in home cinema rooms, they are transforming annexes, garages, conversions, extensions and new build rooms into spectacular feature rooms. This last week they have started the build of their new home cinema demo room.

Home Cinema Room Flooring

Home Cinema Room Soundproofed Floor

Custom Cinema Room Buildout

Home Cinema Room Buildout UK

Starting from the floor upwards, special considerations are being given over to acoustics, sound isolation / insulation and getting it all completely flat and even ready for the next phase. Interior fit-out will follow on shortly with more attention paid to acoustics, reflection points and equipment in later updates.

Home Cinema of the Rich & Famous - Khloé Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian is one of the USA stars of the hit reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She was previously married to basketballer Lamar Odom. Keeping up with the Kardashians is due shortly to air it’s 20th and final season.

At her home in Los Angeles Khloé has a great home cinema room. It’s design has changed slightly over the years and now features a nude modelling photo of Khloé in the background.

What’s key to this room is it’s sense of style and comfort. There are two daybeds and a plush velvet sofa for the family and friends to relax on. It’s neutral colour scheme and lavish soft furnishings offer a soft comfortable ambience.

If you are looking for a Home Cinema feature room then get in touch. If you’re in the UK contact our partner company Cinema@Home for Home Cinema Design & Build.

Home Cinema or Media Room - What's the difference?

So Home Cinema or Media Room, what’s the difference exactly?

You may have seen these terms used when discussing converted rooms with a home that are used for watching movies, tv, playing video games or even zoom and skype video meetings.

Some people feel that they are interchangeable, that they mean the same thing, after all cinema and movies are media. and that’s OK, you can call it what you want but when I’m discussing designing an amazing room for our customers I tend to delineate it like this.

A Home Cinema is a custom room with a projector, projection screen and a minimum of 5.1 Surround sound (more likely 5.2.1 Dolby Atmos - nowadays) and cinema recliners or special cinema seating. The room is likely to be tucked away in a closed/confined space without too many doors or windows so that it can be blacked out to get the best picture possible.

A Media Room is a room that will more likely feature a TV screen (albeit Huge) and either surround sound or a soundbar and subwoofer, this sort of room more often than not features more lounge like layout and furniture/seating. The room will likely be more central to the home, perhaps taking the place of a lounge (or even a 2nd lounge), perhaps with some computer desks or other seating and tables scattered around for people to do other things, rather than just watch movies and TV.

Hua Hin Home Cinema project

We are currently working on a custom home cinema project in Hua Hin, Thailand.

Front Stage of Hua Hin Home Cinema

Very much a work in progress, once our two rows of luxury motorised cinema recliners go in, it’s going to really start to take shape.

This home theatre features 7.1.2 Surround Sound from Klipsch, So that’s three front speakers (left, centre, right), four surround speakers and two Dolby Atmos Height Speakers. It’s powered by a Marantz Surround Receiver and features a Klipsch Subwoofer.

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The 150”Screen provides the visuals in conjunction with an Epson 4k Projector. This is a huge screen and it’s going to look great - Big screens are fine if you can get the viewing distance to it, what you mustn’t have is a screen that more than fills your line of vision, if that’s the case then eyes start to flicker left and right to try to take in the whole field of view which is very uncomfortable.

Before the fitout we made sure to reinforce the corners with Acoustic Bass Traps, carefully designed to absorb excess Bass waves and to help make Bass tighter and more controlled. We also used Cylence which is an acoustic barrier product on the ceiling to tame the acoustics and keep as much noise in as possible.

On the front stage we used an acoustic tile behind the framework to absorb sound waves and keep the front stage imaging tight.

For the sides we used Quadratic Diffusors to scatter sound in a random manner and open up the room and sound-stage, these help to stop direct reflections and literally make a room sound bigger and the sound inside the room less confined.