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Some popular questions on custom home cinema installation

What is custom home cinema installation?A custom home cinema installation involves physically integrating the equipment with your home. So a custom install could be simply a projector, screen and speakers with hidden cabling or it could be multiple components around the whole house for a completely integrated home entertainment, lighting and automation system. Clients may choose to have a discreet install, or a fully dedicated home theatre room. It’s a bespoke home entertainment solution just for you. Usually we will specify and supply the equipment, but the client may have home cinema installation preferences which are, of course, part of the equation.

Who should have a custom home cinema installation? Everyone who would rather not specify and/or install the home theatre themselves. Choosing which equipment is best for your circumstances can be a time consuming process. Finite Solutions as custom installers have the experience to make that decision for you. Performing even the simplest home cinema installation of a wall-mounted plasma screen and speakers may require tricky routing of cables in the wall. If the home cinema installation is to be seamless and ‘family-friendly’ then maybe it’s best to let the professionals take charge.

What are the benefits of a custom home cinema installation? Aside from the obvious benefit of having a hassle-free home cinema installation, we as custom installers can also optimise the home theatre system for you. Since no display is correctly calibrated out of the box and every sound system needs adjusting to your room, this will ensure that you are getting the best performance from your equipment by having a professional set it up for you.

What are the costs of a custom home cinema installation? The cost of home cinema installation varies with the amount of work involved. But what you have to ask yourself is whether the outlay is worth the peace of mind of knowing that you have got the very best home cinema installation for your money. If you have already decided to invest in a home cinema installation, then investing further to ensure you get the right equipment installed and calibrated properly is just a logical extension of the home cinema installation process.

What is the difference between home cinema installation and home theatre installation? Nothing at all, the term home theatre installation is more commonly used in the States. It is exactly the same as home cinema installation. Finite Solutions as home cinema installers will also perform plasma and projector home cinema installation.

What do we mean by future proofing a home cinema installation?Future proofing a home cinema installation means designing the system to take into consideration the possible upgrades that the client my want to add in the future to their smart home. Future proofing a home cinema installation can be complex and exhaustive to cover all upgrade possibilities or it can be as simple as running all of the necessary audio and video cables in a room to allow audio or video systems to be installed at a later date. To effectively future proof a home cinema installation you first need to know what other types of technologies are currently in development. This ensures that you provide the means so that future technologies can integrated into the current home cinema installation at a later date. The key to good future proofing of a home cinema installation is installing all of the relevant cabling and hardware during renovation so that any future addition can be made to the system without the need for further disruption to the home.

Plasma, LCD for a home cinema installation? For your home cinema installation, plasma screens are the most cost effective way of achieving a very good quality 42” picture from a display you can mount on the wall. They provide superbly rich and vibrant colours and smooth motion combined with good depth of field when used with high quality sources and are appropriate for home cinema installation. However the cheap screens costing under a £ 1,800.00 are generally worth avoiding as serious compromises to their picture quality have been made to make them that price. We would not recommend these for home cinema installation. Ultimately LCD technology will overtake plasma for home cinema installation as it has numerous advantages. They last approximately one third longer than plasmas, are lighter, produce less heat and they do not suffer from screen burn, so long term are better for home cinema installation.

What home theatre products do Finite Solutions recommend for home cinema installation? Home Theatre products that we recommend and regularly install for home cinema installation include Pioneer, Fujitsu, Denon, B&W, Marantz, AMX, Anthony Gallo, MJ Acoustics, Rotel, Myryad and Linn.

Where does Finite Solutions perform home cinema installations? Finite Solutions Ltd is a Leeds (West Yorkshire, North of England) based digital consultancy performing custom installs throughout the UK. Recent home cinema installations have been completed in York, Manchester, Blackburn, Sheffield, Wakefield, Halifax, Harrogate and London. Depending on the type of consultancy required, home cinema installation services can be offered internationally.