Red Carpet Home cinema. Day & Date movies

[JSTRONG]

I see chowmain just launched the awesome driver but is anyone going to pay the $1500 ++ for each movie that only allow to watch it twice in a 36 hour period?

I've been waiting for this to come to Kaleidescape, but at a reasonable pricepoint ($300+) and of course owning the 4K movie when it does become available

 

[alanchow]

8 minutes ago, Cartnj said:

I see chowmain just launched the awesome driver but is anyone going to pay the $1500 ++ for each movie that only allow to watch it twice in a 36 hour period?

I've been waiting for this to come to Kaleidescape, but at a reasonable pricepoint ($300+) and of course owning the 4K movie when it does become available

 

You (and i) are probably not the intented market for this service.  Alot of integrators install systems into the social elite and incredibly wealthy.  The kind of people who probably wouldn't want to be disturbed in a normal cinema on a night out in town but still want to watch movies.

[eggzlot]

21 minutes ago, Cartnj said:

I see chowmain just launched the awesome driver but is anyone going to pay the $1500 ++ for each movie that only allow to watch it twice in a 36 hour period?

I've been waiting for this to come to Kaleidescape, but at a reasonable pricepoint ($300+) and of course owning the 4K movie when it does become available

 

Yep to what Alan said.  Their CEO has a lot of history in the movie industry with a lot of ties and they have a few big contracts with a few major studios already signed so it actually may work.  I read about this and though it seems totally off the wall; I personally know someone of extreme wealth and they would not bat an eyelash to have some friends over to have a new release play in their house.  they have spent millions on the house, home theater to rival a movie theater, so dropping $1500 for a night to see a movie isn’t a big deal.  It’s for the people who order a $3,000 bottle of wine and think nothing of it.  5 cups of liquid and it is gone but its on the menu at high end restaurants - there is a very small market for it.

Nothing against Alan/C4, I just assumed most of those integrations at that level use Crestron or other highly customized platforms for automation. I’d be curious how many C4 installs use this platform.  More power to you and hope you move a bunch of them because it is a unique idea.  Remember when the first plasma TVs were $10,000+ (the ones we could get at retail, not odd prototypes).  Now they are $500 (well LCD/LED).  Maybe one day its $15 to watch a movie at home, not $1500 - so good luck to the trailblazers!

[JSTRONG]

I know about those expensive plasma tv's.. I  just bought a house at the jersey shore and almost every room has a fujistu plasma. It pains me to do it but they gotta go. Not even an HDMI port. 

 

[alanchow]

9 minutes ago, eggzlot said:

Nothing against Alan/C4, I just assumed most of those integrations at that level use Crestron or other highly customized platforms for automation.

To be honest we're writing drivers for multiple platforms for this including Crestron. We just got out Control4 and ELAN first as our other systems have a bigger backlog.