Village Hall Cinema

[EddyP]

Evening all,

We're trying to install a decent cinema within our village hall, trouble is the first AV company has quoted £22K, anyone here work in an AV field that might be able to advise different kit?

Edited by EddyP on Sunday 5th November 08:32

[B17NNS]

What equipment have they specified?

[chasingracecars]

Drop me a PM as well as Vex I am sure we can both do better then that depending on what kit was recommended on that quote.

[VEX]

Yep, happy to look at it.

Realistically, although you call it a cinema it would be really hard to do properly and well in a typical village hall. Even at £22k

So I would be aiming more for a projector, screen and a pair of good speakers (maybe a sub)

Village halls have such a variety of uses you could not have a projector hanging from the middle of the hall or 5/7/9 speakers on the walls.

V.

[Andehh]

Have you you got any pictures of the hall, dimensions, uses, ceiling construction etc?

All would help in giving you an initial starting point.

Seeing as its likely to be lots of bare walls, floors and no furniture I imagine anything decent will be wasted?

Surely a decent pull down screen, projector boxed on securely at one end, and a standard mid spec 5.1 ceiling solution, with receiver, blu ray etc box & sub in a cupboard is all you need? Keep it a few £1000 and a decent electrician to install it all? How many village folk would notice the difference between £2k and £20k?

/layman views

[B17NNS]

Andehh said:

/layman views

4k Projector
https://www.optoma.co.uk/projectorproduct/uhd550x
£2k

4k Blu-ray player
http://www.oppodigital.co.uk/UDP-203.html
£650

180" screen
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-180-Electric-HD-Proj...
£370

Thats's the visuals done for around £3k.

You'll easily get a decent receiver and speakers for the same.

[hyphen]

Andehh said:

Have you you got any pictures of the hall, dimensions, uses, ceiling construction etc?

All would help in giving you an initial starting point.

Seeing as its likely to be lots of bare walls, floors and no furniture I imagine anything decent will be wasted?

Surely a decent pull down screen, projector boxed on securely at one end, and a standard mid spec 5.1 ceiling solution, with receiver, blu ray etc box & sub in a cupboard is all you need? Keep it a few £1000 and a decent electrician to install it all? How many village folk would notice the difference between £2k and £20k?

/layman views

+1

If other layman are jumping in then I want my turn too

Most likely you will be better off getting a cheap AV receiver and a good power amp.

I think it all depends on what the use is, are you charging a village without a cinema £15 each and likely to be full each week, or will it be just for kids stuff.

I would cheaper on the screen/proj and spend more on speakers side, as you often get terrible audio in these type of venues.

/layman views. Now back to the pro's!

[VEX]

Agree with all the comments.

Although I would go for a high brightness 1080p HD projector than spend it on pseudo 4K (all be it good pseudo)

Village halls don’t usually have brilliant light control and for big screens / long throws you need brightness.

[VEX]

Andehh said:

and a decent electrician to install it all?
/layman views

and while I am posting!

How dare you!!!! Lol

[Red 5]

EddyP said:

Evening all,

We're trying to install a decent cinema within our village hall, trouble is the first AV company has quoted £22K, anyone here work in an AV field that might be able to advise different kit?

Edited by EddyP on Sunday 5th November 08:32

Please show pics of the hall, state maximum budget and type of use.
No need to beat around the bush?

[Andehh]

VEX said:

Andehh said:

and a decent electrician to install it all?
/layman views

and while I am posting!

How dare you!!!! Lol

I know, I know.... my apologies!

Figuring an electrician is the cheapest & simplest way of installing it all, also prevents anything too specialist from being implemented. Its only a matter of time before someone needs to be called out as someone "tried to help" in adjusting the settings/fiddling.

Keep it simple & straight forward.

[Red 5]

In my experience, an electrician is a bad idea for fitting AV equipment!
They aren’t cheap, mostly have no clue about AV, as it’s a different job really.

Even if the kit is simple, correct / ideal implementation is key to getting the
most for your spend.

[VEX]

Andehh said:

I know, I know.... my apologies!

Figuring an electrician is the cheapest & simplest way of installing it all, also prevents anything too specialist from being implemented. Its only a matter of time before someone needs to be called out as someone "tried to help" in adjusting the settings/fiddling.

Keep it simple & straight forward.

With all our projects (and the same for others here) the aim is simple and fixable at least over the phone, the last thing we want is a site visit as it takes time out of our main business focus, installing.

Especially in this requirement, simplicity is the key.


V.

[chasingracecars]

And of course make it simple to use as well. A simple system can be complicated to use so consider a non trained user walking in.

This doesn’t have to cost a lot and can be cheaper then the replacement projector remote 1 year on.