Peterborough Home Cinema
We’ve had a lot of fun installing a very cool 10 seat home cinema in Peterborough, It features a Starscape star ceiling, 127” acoustic screen fed by a Sim2 Domino laser projector with Anthem & Paradigm sound. It looks and sounds amazing!
The equipment installed includes;
✅ Sim2 Domino4H Laser 4k Projector
✅ Anthem MRX1140 Surround Receiver
✅ Paradigm Pro P1 In-Wall Speakers and 2 x Paradigm X12 Subwoofers
✅ Starscape Star Ceiling
✅ Lutron Lighting
✅ RTi T4x Remote Control
✅ Frontrow Home Cinema Seating (10 seats)
✅ Movie Poster System in the Foyer
LED Lighting for the Carpet Nose
Home Cinema with Lights Up.
Testing Out The Frontrow Home Cinema Seats
Home Cinema
Movie Poster system in the Foyer Area
Relaxing Fortress Home Cinema Seating.
The Cinema is really dark, great for watching Films and TV.
Easy To Use RTi T4X Remote Control
To make sure the cinema room is simple to use we installed an RTi T4x remote control - This is the flagship of the award-winning wireless interface lineup from RTI. It features a large high-resolution capacitive touchscreen, essential hard buttons, and is completely customizable. We designed the interface so that the the user will enjoy simple, intuitive control, the T4x sets the standard in wireless control with advanced features including grip sensors, Zigbee, WiFi, dual RF, and more.
The UI features icons to touch for what you’d like to watch, simply enter the room, press the SkyTV button and you will be watching SkyTV within seconds. We have four lighting scenes and all-on or all-off for the Lutron lighting control system. These scenes set the mood up for the room, dimming the lights and controlling the star ceiling.
When the owners finish with their film they simply press the system off button on the top right, this shuts down all of the equipment for them easily.
RTi T4X Remote Control system whilst watching Maverick.
Easy control of the cinema and the environment.
Sim2 Projection System
Sim2 Domino 4H Projector
The projector used in this home cinema is the Sim2 Domino 4H, This projector features a Laser hybrid light source (up to 3,000 ANSI Lumens) and uses a Single-chip DMD 0.66” for the 4k UHD image.
The Domino 4H SuperHybrid sports a perfect white point colour and an expanded colour space, achieving the DCI standard * (the color space of commercial Digital Cinema projectors). This means perfect reproduction of images that look nothing more than “natural”.
Last and best DMD chip - SIM2 has chosen one of the largest and much improved UHD 4K DMD chip released by Texas Instruments for all its home cinema projectors including the new Crystal 4 Sh SuperHybrid. The 0.66” DMD chip allows a higher brightness and much lower dispersed light, compared to the smaller 0,47” chip, thus delivering images with a higher contrast and lower black level: perfect for home cinema applications.
Room Design
We started the room design by drawing the building in Sketchup. Once the room was drawn up we could play with materials, sizes, colours, fabrics to see what would make this cinema look great. The owners wanted 10 seats, so after drawing out options in Sketchup they decided on two chaise longue motorised love seats for the front and two motorised 3 seater recliners for the rear.
The flooring was designed so that you walk in and step up, walk through to the front and step down with LED striplights keeping the area illuminated and the steps safe to use in the dark.
A screen size of 127 inches was decided on, with the front speakers behind the acousticaly transparent screen. A starlight ceiling was designed in and looked great on the renders of the cinema.
Early 3D drawings in Sketchup
Carpet added into the early Sketchup.
Early Renders of the cinema room.
final renders of the cinema room.
Plans for the home theatre up on the wall.
Paradigm Surround Speakers and Subwoofer
The Paradigm speakers featured in this home cinema are Paradigm Pro P1 in-wall and in-ceiling with the front Left, Centre, Right speakers sitting behind the acoustically transparent 127” screen. For the subwoofer action this room features two powerful Paradigm Defiance X12 subwoofers, each of these 12” subwoofers has 650 watts RMS of power.
Paradigm Pro P1 Speaker
Paradigm Pro P1 Speaker
2 x Paradigm X12 Subwoofers
Anthem MRX 1140 Home Cinema Surround Amplifier
The speakers are all powered by one of our favourite home cinema receivers, the Anthem MRX1140. The MRX 1140 is a great way to bring premium audio to any home cinema it features 7 dedicated 8K HDMI inputs that support 8K/60Hz or 4K/120Hz pass-through and 3 dedicated outputs with eARC.
It also features the latest version of ARC Genesis with a redesigned and more accurate calibration microphone, Anthem Room Correction (ARC) is a significant leap forward in room correction, new target curve adjustment options including deep bass and high frequencies; improved algorithms and much more and helps transform the performance of your room whilst retaining the unique rooms unique character.
StarScape Star Ceiling
This star ceiling consists of 8 magnetic 1.2 x 1.2 metre panels (in a 2.4 x 4.8 ceiling space), these each have a bundle of 120 mixed diameter fibres (0.50mm, 0.75mm, 1mm and 1.5mm) distributed as a natural star pattern across the panel. On the rear of the panel this bundle is connected via an optical joint with screwed coupling to a corresponding carrier tail connected to the light source. The light source or light engine feeds the fibres with the light and this lights up the stars for all of the panels. They can be dimmed and they can also be set to Twinkle, we use the Twinkle but program in a slower setting than standard, we think it looks better.
These Fibre Optics fit into the Star Engine to power all the stars..
These Fibre Optic joints connect to each Star Panel.
The Fibre Optic Lighting Feeds.
Star Panels are up with protective plastic on at first.
Acoustics and Fabric
Cinema Build Systems Soft Slab acoustic tiles were used on the walls, they are produced using an open celled acoustic/thermal impregnated polyurethane foam, originally developed as safety critical foam it reaches Class 0 Fire rating.
Acoustic performance is good and absorption coefficients are typical for a cellular material, but unusually high deadening performance is attributable to the high density of approximately 85 kgm3. The high mass also helps to reduce vibration and noise breakout
Cinema Build Systems fabric tracking profiles where used for the room, and their blackest acoustically transparent fabric was used for all the walls to make sure the room was as dark as possible.
Cinema Build Systems soft slab acoustic tiles on the wall.
The cinema room covered in acoustic fabric.
Putting up the acoustic fabric from Cinema Build Systems.
Soft slab acoustic tiles and acoustic wood panel.
Acoustic fabric up on the walls.
Rear of the cinema room looking towards the projector.
Carpet, LED Striplights & Power Sockets
Wiring in the striplights to the Step Nose Edging.
Nose Edging for the carpet.
Power sockets for the motorised frontrow cinema recliners.
We chose a nice charcoal carpet colour and used special nose edging for the carpet steps. This allowed us to build and wire in LED striplights around all of the steps.
With the Lutron lighting system and controlled via the RTi T4x remote the owners can turn on, turn off, dim or set the lights in the carpet steps to their movie room lighting scenes.
Black silicone sealing of the Nose Edging on the carpet step.
This makes the room look quite special and allows the owners to wander around without too much worrying about tripping over the carpet steps.
Power sockets for the motorised frontrow cinema seats are set into the floor under a nice stainless steel recess. This means that the recliners can be moved around the room easily without having to worry about catching the plugs on the seat feet.
At the entrance to the cinema the wood effect flooring from outside the room is continued until the first stepup up to the carpet.
The LED striplights built into the step nose look great lighting up the contrast between plush comfy carpet and the wood effect of the flooring.
Carpets installed in the cinema room.
Front view with the carpet now down in the cinema room.
Movie Poster System
Our Movie Poster system boots up automatically when the TV is turned on, it then shows movie posters in random order each for 30 seconds at a time.
It’s all controlled via a Raspberry Pi, powered through the TV’s USB port It makes for a great talking piece about the films shown and helps build the excitement around watching movies in the cinema. The movie poster system is built into the wall outside the cinema in the foyer.
Movie Poster outside the Cinema Room.
Touching up the paintwork for the Movie Poster.
Random movie posters on 30 second timelines.
Planned from the start of building the room.
Bits & Pieces
It was a great project, the cinema was in a new build house that took a couple of years to complete. Below are some other photos of the project to give you more of a feel for how it went.
Koldlok cable system for keeping cable runs tidy.
Testing out the comfy Frontrow Theatre Seats.
The start of the cinema room.
Ceiling bulkhead finished.
Frame for the ceiling bulkhead.
Projector port hole.
Ceiling up and room painted black.
Special downlighters we used for the mood lighting.
Our projector port hole.
Where the cinema projector hides away.
