Cinema Design GOLD Award

Scott Rogan and his team at Rogue Home Cinema first worked on this project in Western Australia a number of years ago, expanding an existing DIY cinema into this grander room which filled a space formerly occupied by a twin car port. A 180-inch screen heads up this dedicated home cinema, with nice touches including a drinks cabinet with lights that fade as the movie starts, and equipment cupboards on the back wall hidden behind movie posters. Ten seats plus a daybed lounge at the front means plenty of room to entertain. And with Parasound amplification and Atlantic Technology speakers throughout, it surely sounds as good as it looks.

This year Scott’s team has returned to the project, to update the specifications.

“Yes, it’s time for this room to go 4K”, Scott confirmed when we featured the room in our September issue. “When this cinema was created, 4K simply wasn’t delivering value — the content wasn’t readily available, 4K projectors were very expensive and no projector back then had HDR or wide colour gamut. Since then, 4K video has increased in performance and value a great deal, so the plan this year is to take advantage of new video technology, also to upgrade their control system for a slicker user experience.”

The upgrade will allow Control4 automation over all AV and lighting, while delivering the full 4K upgrade by bringing in a Sony native 4K projector, along with UHD sources — a Panasonic UB9000 4K Blu-ray player and an AppleTV 4K media player.

More info: roguehomecinema.com.au

“This helps increase overall clarity and envelopment once acoustic treatments are added in critical locations,” says Jono.

A Sony VPL-VW760ES 4K projector receives its image via a Lumagen video processor (see previous pages) to illuminate a 157-inch 2.35:1 microperforated Stewart Filmscreen Studiotek 130 projection screen. The overall effect? “Sublime performance — articulate yet powerful,” says Jono Dorset.

More info: www.lenwallisaudio.com