High end home screening rooms

[Leo Enticknap]

How many people who spend the time and money to build their own screening room actually use them?

You are right in that the ones in the residences of movie industry people tend to be used quite intensively, but some others are little used status symbols.

When the covid lockdowns first happened I did several service calls to high end residence theaters, the owners of which tried to use them for the first time in years and discovered that things didn't work. We found a lot of early SDI media blocks and Series 1 projectors with lost certificates. In particular, I remember one NC800 in a residence theater that was installed in 2011, and which I found in 2020 had 27 hours of card cage time on the clock. It was in the residence of a venture capitalist who, from what I could find out online, had no significant connections to the entertainment industry.

[Dave Macaulay]

We are about to renovate a home theatre with a new SP4K and a lot more. Yes, all speakers are hidden. New Stewart screen going in. Nice setup. It was 35mm changeover with a weird video projector, that was all taken out years ago. CP2020 and DSS200 coming out.

[Allan Barnes]

Oh boy... a DOLBY DSS 200 we should talk.