Phuket Home Theatre - 100" Home Cinema Screen
Our latest install has us installing a 100" Home Cinema screen in this Phuket villa, the projector is a Sony SXRD one of our favourite projectors.
The projector system at the heart of the VPL-HW45ES is based on Sony’s SXRD technology. delivering Full HD resolution.
Sony has managed to up the VPL-HW45ES’s brightness to 1,800 lumens from the 1,700 lumens of its predecessor. Sony have completely redesigned the internals to deliver improved colour performance and reduced noise levels on this model. There is a new alignment layer element within Sony’s SXRD chipset that improves contrast and black-level depth by retaining greater light focus and efficiency.
Why you need to control light in a projector based Home Cinema
I was doing an install up in Hua Hin, Thailand recently and had to do most of the cinema setup during the day, it's a dedicated home theatre room so it was easy to keep the curtains closed. At one point during the install whilst I was tweaking the on screen image someone opened the curtains momentarily.
It served as a reminder as to why you need to control light, I decided to take the following photos of the screen showing exactly the same image, 1st with the curtains closed and 2nd one with a curtain open. The screen completely washed out, I couldn't discern any image whatsoever. This is a bright-ish projector on a Gray screen.
Projection Home Cinema with curtains closed
Projection Home Cinema with curtains open
Top 3 Reasons for owning a Home Cinema
Top 3 Reasons for owning a (proper) Home Cinema.
- It's seriously cool, wow neighbours and amaze friends with all the best movies on a big screen.
- Your family are going to love you, family movie night will never be the same again.
- It gives you an excuse to watch all those old films again. Watch them in HD as the Director intended.