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You might call it a home cinema, you might call it a media room – it’s certainly a unique space, combining two projection systems on the one screen – and a successful one. But the project, part of a larger home renovation, was not without its challenges. “The primary goal was the cinema,” the owner tells Sound+Image. “I wanted a great cinema experience from the projector and the screen, and obviously on the audio side of things as well. But a secondary benefit was what I call an ‘art wall’ – something I thought would really enhance the space, if it was technically possible.”

Picture those allegedly 4D rides you’ve been on in amusement parks, where the seats throw you around like a mechanical bull. Now forget them entirely, because they are nothing like the incredible, immersive D-Box motion chairs you can have installed in your home cinema, according to local expert installer David Moseley. “As soon as you talk about ‘motion’, people go…

Wavetrain Cinemas joined with David Leisk Electronics to effect this transformation from humble basement to state-of-the-art cinema. How many homes have an unused room? A ‘spare’ room, used for storage, or a kids’ rumpus room for kids that have grown and left home? Here’s a fine example of what can be achieved in such a space — this unused storage…

It was all change at the CEDIA Awards this year — entries for the finest custom installation projects in Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific region were all submitted through the U.S. head office of CEDIA, where they were judged by a committee of U.S. luminaries before the winners were announced at a local CEDIA event in Melbourne, held…

Enter the Matrix. The owners of this home cinema are big  sci-fi fans, and chose to  reference The Matrix and  Cube in this impressive eight-seater Wavetrain design. Before he opens the door to this home cinema, the owner uses the Control4 app on his smartphone to select a specific lighting scene inside. Visitors enter to walls of Matrix-style digital rain,…