Great video, Steve. I have lately been thinking about some of those considerations.

I remember a time when B&O provided its own solution for both options. Do we remember the interactive page on its website where we could build our own home cinema by selecting various products and options? Now, however, without a replacement for the BeoSystem 4 we no longer have an easy solution for building a projector-based home cinema.

There was a time when I used CINEMA mode with a motorized projector screen quite often. However, that was a time when TV screens were much smaller than they are now. Now I find myself almost exclusively watching movies on my (non-B&O) 75 inch TV. The size of the TV compared to a projector screen just isn't as noticeable as it once was, and the picture quality is superior on the TV. Plus, we don't have to worry about keeping the room dark.

Most significant is B&O's failure in adopting Dolby Atmos sound. I've tried using Beolab 4000s on the ceiling for simulated height channels created by the BeoSystem 4, but I'm really not impressed.

I reckon the ultimate home cinema setup will be a Beovision Eclipse 65", Beolab 90s at the front and Beolab 8000s at the rear. At least I hope so anyway - I'll let you know next Monday evening when the Eclipse has been installed! 😁

As to the ultimate ultimate, If I turned out to be the winner of the 120 million Euros on the the Euro Lottery (I'm not sadly...) then I'd probably be looking to these people for my home cinema - http://www.kharma.com/kharma-projects/room-in-a-room-concept/

When I bought my present home, I decided to create my ultimate home cinema (and hifi) system. For video, this comprises a BeoVision 4-103 with BeoLab 90s as fronts and BeoLab 50s as rears.

AdamS wrote:

I reckon the ultimate home cinema setup will be a Beovision Eclipse 65", Beolab 90s at the front and Beolab 8000s at the rear. At least I hope so anyway - I'll let you know next Monday evening when the Eclipse has been installed!

I guess this is in most cases not a question of either or!

If you go for the cinema room - given you have the space (and can offer the costs for that extra space and the needed rebuilding for it as a cinema room) - and you have the £100k,  you have no living room setup.

Question: could you live with that - do you really want to spend that much time in a dark (Narnia) room?

So if you really want a cinema room, you’d almost have to double the £100k in order to have the living room, that most people need.

And that iwould be another question - it certainly would only be a possibility for few people.

Note: a guy without family would do well with just the cinema, I guess!

Personally I’d go for the B&O setup.....a cinema room is not particularly good for music!

MM

Hi MM,

Yes, that is an interesting point.  Whilst both systems were great for movies, the cinema room could not get close to the Beolab 90/50 setup for music....that is not to say there was anything bad about it, just that the Beolabs were SO good.

I hope to set up a separate cinema room one day in the distant future when the kids grow up and their playroom is spare..... 👍 🤩

Kind regards, Steve.

I don't really understand cinema rooms in homes; that is to say it's not a concept that appeals to me at all. Firstly, it takes away the excitement of visiting the cinema a day/evening out with friends/family, and secondly, it turns my home into more of a commercial dwelling. I see it as a complete waste of time and money. I have just spent c£180k on home improvements, which did not include anymore B&O or a cinema room; in fact not even an extension or a third bedroom. My objective was to make my home cost, warm, and inviting, which I have mostly achieved. I would be interested to know why a separate cinema room does appeal to others and whether or not they feel it takes something away from the family? Is it not just a glorified man's cave? Each to their own of course. Simon.

Before UHD came it would be easy to make a home cinema entirely by B&O products with the exemption of the screen. What I mean is you could get a Beovision/Beosystem preferably one that has 7.1 decoding capabilities (if Beovision is what you would go for). Connect to it a matrix and on the matrix a sony projector. As far as sound is concerned fronts I would go for beolab 9, rears beolab 3, sub beolab 2, surround beolab 3. As center I would use the beovision's speaker or in case I had a beosystem I would get a beolab 10. I think the setup would definitely cost less than 100k.

Now for the UHD version of it I wouldn't buy a beovision. The reason is that they are very expensive and for the last couple of years they tend to change very quickly so I don't want to end up with another black box. So I would definitely buy a beosystem that has 7.1 and UHD. For example it could be a cheap version of a beosystem with 5.1 and UHD without any integrated speaker and a 7.1 and UHD with integrated speaker as a more expensive alternative. DO YOU HEAR ME B&O??????

But there is no Beosystem, so I would go for an AV Amp preferably a Yamaha. As far as the speakers and the projector are concerned I would go for the same ones I picked for the B&O setup. Given that the Yamaha supports Atmos I would go for a couple of Beovox 2-2 or palatial for ceiling installation.

Last but my no means least. I think that a home cinema needs a projector. Even a TV with 130" diagonal doesn't bring the atmosphere a projector has. In other words the projector is kind of the record player of the home cinema. It is bulky, heavy, you have to wait (at least a bit) for it to start, you need to have the drapes closed to watch.....but it adds character...