6 Reasons why you need A smart Home Cinema in Kenya?

A movie is an experience created with a combination of sound and video. A setup that makes the set as actual as possible moves you into the movie. You will be able to understand the context of the movie and enjoy it better. Movies were not created to make you an audience, they are designed to make you part of them, to experience the weather, the mood and anticipation. You need to be immersed in the sound and video to be at the center of the action. This can be made possible by building a dedicated home cinema. While some houses reserve entertainment rooms, others have full terraced rooms for cinema rooms. Cinema rooms can range from professional screens and sound proofing to just a professional audio set up in the entertainment room.

Tommie's Smart Homes is keen to integrate pre-wiring for dedicated cinema room for a professional audio set up. We also automate our cinema rooms such that they are partly smart rooms for easy operation of several devices. Some of the reasons why we believe you need a smart cinema room here in Kenya include:

1. Never miss a thing 

Watching movies and music from our normal mid and large screens we miss a lot of detail. Our living rooms are not designed to deliver the home cinema experience. They are just living spaces whose decor and design maximizes comfort. Home cinema aggressively delivers what a movie was intended to deliver. First Home cinemas reduce reflections to enhance color and detail on the screen. Second and very critical is that sound in Cinema is designed to promote dolby atmos. Dolby atmos sound is designed to deliver sound to the audience in exactly the way producers intended. Some sounds should come from far, some are whispers right into our ears. From loud bangs of bombs to sharp hissing of snakes or faint breeze, home audio cinema ensures you don't miss a detail. 

2. Comfort 

Home cinema designs are inspired by the fact that movies take long and some poses might be tiring or even unhealthy. The Screens height, seat design and position etc. take into account that as you take hours to enjoy your videos, you need to remain comfortable and healthy. The sound quality is also a factor of comfort when watching movies and podcasts. It is important to have an audio set up that allows you to listen to conversation and enjoy sound effects of movie productions. The quality of video you watch i also a critical factor of comfort. Brightness, clarity, size of the screen are among many factors that can change the experience and comfort of gazing at the screen for hours.

2. Get the most 

It is common to find very sophisticated screen and audio equipment used in unfavorable environments and set - ups. Technology in audio and video equipment has advanced so much. We now have 4K HDR screens, some with the ability to play 3D content. Audio equipment with ability to play DTS X and dolby technologies. When set up poorly, owners of these equipment do not enjoy these technologies. They make a very big difference. It is quite sad that we have visited homes here in Kenya that already have very premium sound systems and televisions but do not get to enjoy what these equipment can produce. Mostly this is due to lack of knowledge of existence of these feature and secondly setting them up in a way that does not optimize their functionality.

3. Be a boss 

Home cinema, especially the ones created by the tommies, are small smart houses. Instead of turning off the lights, pulling curtains, turning on the AC, you can do all that with one button. Just pressing once does everything you need. Tommie's has specialized in building smart homes for years and this are technologies we carry into any cinema room we build. Tommie's ensures that all cinema rooms are smart homes with various technologies as motorized curtains, smart lighting and universal remotes.

4. Care for others 

If you love movies, you can agree with me that enough sound is vital to getting immersed in any movie experience. However, loud movies can disturb everyone else in the home. Home cinemas are designed with sound proof panels to ensure sound stays within the room. The soundproofing of home cinema also ensures that sound does not bounce off walls to create an unpleasant sound experience. 

5. Concentration 

Most of the time you find yourself struggling to keep up with a conversation in the room while focusing on learning or listening to a podcast. Video content has become part of our lifestyle, lifelong learning and the way we get informed. Having a dedicated space to concentrate on a podcast will go a long way to secure your concentration on the videos and boost your understanding. 

    6.   Real family and friends experiences 

Have you ever felt that you need a weekly family movie night? The problem is that it does not get authentic enough to be enjoyable.  There will be lights, disruptions, and someone seating in an awkward position. The cinema room ensures that there is a real cinema room experience for authentic family or friends movie night experiences. 

In a modern home, cinema theatres are critical to complement other features of the smart home. I have observed a trend in Nairobi where home owners are becoming more careful with the separation between the living room function as a central point of the home and its overlapping and actually distraction as an infotainment room. Some have opted to have television sets in different rooms while others have created family rooms without these gadgets. Home theaters become the ultimate move in enforcing the essence of the living area. Home theaters ensure family members can enjoy the full potential of online videos, music, gaming, podcasts and movies.