Home Cinema & TV's

Building a new home on the Central Coast? Building a new home cinema on the Central Coast? We can help design, supply and install your new home cinema. Simplify your decision and maximise the performance and your enjoyment, with a tailored home theater design.
Our range of home theatre products are below for you to shop online, or visit our East Gosford showroom and see our display home cinema...

Subcategories of Home Cinema & TV's:

	Suggested AV Packages Looking for a high definition Home Cinema Package? Simplify your decision and maximise the performance, and your enjoyment, with a tailored package from Mcleans. Each package includes installation, some conditions apply. Servicing the Central Coast, Newcastle, Sydney and beyond.

	Bose Solutions

	TV Soundbars Custom installed televisions and soundbars need to be serviceable, reliable, and if required, readily integrated with digital audio systems.

	Projectors Enjoy the theatre experience of your own home cinema, Mcleans can show you how.

	Projector Screens

	Power Amplifiers / Surround Processors

	HT Loudspeakers

	Subwoofers

	Blu-ray / Ultra HD / 4K

	Lighting Control

	Surround Receivers Call us for a recommendation...

	Home Cinema Accessories

	Acoustic Treatment/ Isolation

	RTI We offer a full range of RTI remote control products, please contact us with your requirements or enquiry. Products offered will be online here soon.

	Crestron We offer a full range of Crestron products, please contact us with your requirements or enquiry. Products offered will be online here soon.

	Installation and Integration Heres [some of] what you need to know Home cinema's are sometimes seen as the ultimate urban status symbol. Ideally this space has everything going for it: little natural light, away from the rest of the family's activities, and likely a space that gives you studs and cement to play with. It is also generally accepted that building a dedicated home cinema can raise the potential market value of your home - just like a gourmet kitchen... Consider it as more than entertainment - consider it as an investment. First Things First What do you need to think about when you're building a home cinema? First, how big will this room be? Determine the number of people you anticipate using the room for movies most of the time. If this is about to become THE Sunday football destination, you want everyone to be comfortable, right? Next, What Feeling Do You Want Your Room To Create? In my experience, this is an excellent place to involve the ‘CFO' of your home. Decide if this is going to be an intimate room for getting lost in movies, or the multi-purpose gaming, movies and music centre of your home. (In the industry, we call this the media room). Decide this with whoever will be using the room so you can create an experience everyone will enjoy. With that vision in place, you can start laying out the budget. Here's a guide that I recommend: 35 to 40% of the equipment budget to the 5.1-channel home theatre speaker system. Upgrade to 7.1 if you want if you have a large room with tiered seating.    30% to 35% for the high definition video display (rear projection, or front projector and screen, flat-panel plasma or LCD, plus associated controls)    20% to 30% for the electronics (AV receiver or AV processor and amplifiers, Blu-ray player)    5% to 10% for cables, wiring, and miscellaneous materials    Labour for installation and system calibration will be dependant on your unique requirements   . Choose the Correct Room Shape Where possible, avoid square rooms and long narrow rectangular rooms because deep bass sound waves misbehave or "pile up" in square or extra-long rooms. They produce "standing waves," which result in areas with bass peaks where you'll hear way too much bass, and "nulls," where you'll hear virtually no deep bass. Sometimes these areas of too much or too little bass will vary every 30-40cm. This is where an investment in a design for your rooms layout for seating placement, screen size, speaker and subwoofer choices and their placement is money wisely invested...depending on the complexity of design required a typical design ranges from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars... Trying to fix the standing-wave problem after the fact using electronic band-aids like equalization or an AV receiver's auto-EQ program, regardless of claims, is virtually impossible. Instead, opt for a rectangular shaped room where the dimensions (length, width and height) are not evenly divisible by a common denominator. For example, don't choose a room 8 x 4 x 2.4 m.; instead lay out dimensions of 7.5 x 4.3 x 2.4 m. That way, you'll minimize standing waves and the investment required to minimise their impact on your rooms sound quality and therefore enjoyment. Keep the Room Size to Practical Limits How many viewers do you expect to have? Figure out how many seats and what sort of seating you'll need - several rows of real theatre-type seats or a couple of couches plus some recliners? Then choose a room that accommodates the furniture and provides a reasonable viewing distance versus your preferred screen size [see note below]. Note that the larger you make your home theatre, the larger the speakers and more subwoofers you'll require, as well as having to investment more for bigger amplifiers. Allot 50% or More of Your Budget to Speakers and Amplification Don't blow your home theatre budget on a super-expensive video projector, screen and furniture, leaving little for home theatre speakers and amplification. In other words, match your high-definition visual image with a similarly high-quality soundscape from a fine home cinema surround sound system, otherwise you'll only be disappointed at the jarring disconnect of combining a brilliant picture with inadequate sound. If you invest $4000 on an HD front projection system, then consider spending the same amount on a 5.1-channel home theatre speaker setup and another $1200 to $2,000 or more (depending on the room size) on an A/V surround receiver or double that for a more flexible A/V processor and matching amplifiers. Compute the Screen Size and Viewing Distance Your seating distance versus screen size will determine your sense of picture clarity and detail as well as the quality of the viewing experience. If you choose front projection, go to www.projectorcentral.com and use the Home Projector Calculator to figure out the desirable "throw" distance vs. zoom ranges for specific front projectors at various price points. Remember that standard DVDs are only 480i or 480p and no amount of "up-conversion" will magically turn them into high definition. They are NOT high definition, so you must have a reasonable viewing distance to get satisfying image clarity. You can sit much closer for true high definition TV images (720p, 1080i) or those from Blu-ray players (1080p), as close as twice the screen height measurement. If you watch a lot of standard broadcast TV (not HD), then figure on a seating distance at least three or four times the screen height for acceptable image clarity. Most screen manufacturers recommend a minimum of 2 times the screen height to a maximum of 6 times the height...THX specification recommends 3.68 times the height as an ideal seating distance. Can You Live With Front Projection? Can you live without front projection!? A big theatre-like widescreen image has terrific impact, but using a front projector requires a dark room (and I mean totally dark) or the projected image can look washed out. Ambient room light falling on the screen will cause poor blacks and loss of shadow detail. If you are willing to arrange your room so that it can be totally darkened - not too hard in most dedicated home cinemas - then a compact DLP or LCD front projector is affordable and convenient, with quite stunning picture quality. Within limits, a zoom lens lets you adjust the image size to suit the viewing distance and fit the screen. If there is usually ambient light in the room, or you prefer to watch TV and movies with some lights on, consider a projector with high light output or a large plasma or LCD TV - they offer much brighter, higher contrast images than a low specified/priced projector...but again a Cinema like experience demands a BIG picture. *Of course you can use your plasma/LCD for daytime viewing and your projector for night time viewing. Remember to include the Cost of a Screen for Front Projection Using the wall for projection purposes is possible with some special and fairly expensive paints manufactured for the purpose, but a dedicated screen will produce much better contrast and image brightness. If you want the screen to be electrically lowered or raised out of sight, budget at least $1,000 - $2,000 for a retractable screen. Manually raised or lowered or fixed screens can be significantly less. Be sure to experience our ‘Cinemascope' acoustically transparent screen for the ultimate home cinema experience.    Plan on gyprock or wood-paneled walls and a timber or carpeted floor. Avoid poured concrete floors and walls, which may cause boomy and exaggerated bass and degraded sound quality. If the floor is concrete, ideally plan on covering it with a wood sub-floor and carpet to provide some absorbency. Likewise, cement-block walls should be covered with studs and gyprock or wood panels. Isolation of sound, between rooms, has become more easily and cost effectively realised with products from Green Glue and Quietglue products. Consider Your Room Décor as Acoustical Treatment If you consider using a normal mix of absorbent and reflective surfaces--upholstered furniture, carpet or rugs, perhaps some draperies--and some variation in wall surfaces, then you shouldn't need to budget for room "treatments" or absorbers for your home cinema room, unless there are unusual factors at play (walls of glass, inflexible interior design rigidity). Bookcases or similar furniture will do nicely to prevent hard, aggressive reflections that may diminish sound quality. A room that has too many hard surfaces and is too reflective may inhibit dialog clarity and cause some occasional harshness in the treble; one that is too absorbent may diminish the natural sense of spaciousness that speakers can yield when there are some natural side-wall reflections. As a general rule, factor 25% surface treatment for absorption and 25% for diffusion. The goal is to achieve a frequency balance in your room...easier said than done, but worth every effort involved! Again, be sure to experience our showroom dedicated cinema with it's acoustic treatment to fully appreciate the impact it has on your enjoyment of music, HDTV, games and movies. Don't Hide Floorstanding or Bookshelf Speakers Inside Custom Cabinets Speakers already have their own enclosures (cabinets), and are carefully engineered to perform at their best in a freestanding location, unencumbered by special custom cabinets, nooks, custom shelving, or concealed in elaborately constructed cubbyholes behind special grilles. Without following specific design criteria and acoustic treatment this extra cabinetry will degrade and change the neutral transparent tonal balance of the speakers. At the least, deep bass performance will be boomy or hollow-sounding, and the midrange and treble tonal balance may become noticeably nasal or muddy and congested. And, resist the Urge to Use In-Ceiling Speakers! The next time you are in a surround sound cinema, look up at the ceiling. There are no surround speakers on the ceiling. Instead, the surround speakers line each side wall of the theatre (plus a couple of extra surrounds on the rear wall). There are several reasons for this. The first is that Dolby and dts 5.1-channel movie soundtracks are mixed with the surround speakers to each side because human hearing is extra-sensitive to sounds arriving from each side and in front of us (that's why our external ear structures are cupped to collect and focus lateral and front-arriving sound). The effects of surround envelopment and directional cues are much more profound and convincing coming from the side. Our hearing is not as sensitive to spatial cues and sounds arriving from overhead and behind us. If you want to duplicate the cinema experience and hear the surround soundtrack the way the director and audio engineers intended, put your surround speakers on the side and rear walls of your home cinema. Furthermore, multichannel music recordings played with surround speakers are also more convincing with side-mounted surrounds. It's the delay of the lateral-arriving reflected sounds that tell our ears and brain the "size" of the acoustic space we are in, so placing your surround speakers to each side, above ear level about 1.6-1.8 m or so off the floor will best duplicate how we hear ambience in real performance spaces. There you have it! A few simple rules to help you make your home cinema all you want it to be for you, your family and guests. Of-course compromises can, or sometimes, have to be made...knowing which compromises to make is the key to the successful outcome for your home and budget. And the sales pitch? Superior products, experience, knowledge, and the results of it's application, is what you have on your side when you engage Mcleans to be your home cinema provider. To contact Bill Mclean call 1300 995 448 Or email sales@mcleans.info Calibrating the display device in your Home Theatre system optimises your equipment to provide the highest possible level of performance and return on your investment. Why Calibrate? Display devices in Home Theatre Systems are the last link in a carefully managed chain that begins on a Movie Set or TV Production studio. Directors and Cinematographers spend millions getting the ‘look' just right for their final content. Fortunately Movie and TV Production is engineered to standards for Chromaticity,Colour Temperature and Gamma. Unfortunately most consumer displays do not reproduce these standards well without individual adjustment to account for manufacturing variations and the characteristics of your source equipment. Calibrating a display to these standards ensures you see exactly what the director intended. A calibrated display appears natural, lifelike and is ‘easy' to view. Most significantly, the natural appearance greatly improves the immersion effect that you strive for when purchasing a display for your Home Theatre System. How is the Display Calibrated? Display calibration requires specialised equipment. Using the highly regarded Milori Colorfacts Professional system teamed with the GretagMacbeth Spectroradiometer. The spectroradiometer is unique in this field as it is able to accurately calibrate displays of any technology. The instrument is designed for both direct measurements from the screen of a display or reflected light from a projector screen. The basic process for display calibration involves the use of a colour sensor to measure directly from the screen of your display. Various Test Patterns are then shown on the display and adjustments are made in the User and Service Menus to adjust your display to match industry standards and provide the highest level of performance within the capabilities of your display. At the completion of the calibration, a report is created recording the final values and measured performance for your reference. Calibration can also include adjustments to the focus, convergence, black level, gamma characteristics and other factors depending on the type of display. Calibrations are performed by an experienced Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) Certified calibrator who is also an Electronic Engineer who understands the technology behind your display. Benefits   Natural and lifelike image with accurate skin tones    Optimised Black level and Contrast Ratio    Reduced banding and noise in image    Longer life for Plasma, and CRT displays due to correct drive of the phosphors    Improved focus and Convergence for a sharper image  Contact Bill Mclean sales@mcleans.info 1300 995 448

Products

	Acoustically transparent screens...we recommend them, read some facts here: AT screens give you more of that Cinema experience...be sure to experience the superiority of our over 3 metre wide 'scope' AT screen in our Cinema at East Gosford for your self. The article below was originally written for 'installers' Read more >>

	Bose Acoustimass 10 Series V home cinema speaker system High-performance spacious surround sound for larger rooms. Black only. Read more >>

	Bose Lifestyle 600 Home Entertainment System -Black or White $4,949.00 Astonishingly seamless audio experience that melts luxuriously into your room. The glass-topped console is compatible with advanced audio and video sources, and connects the rear speakers and bass wirelessly. Read more >>

	Bose Lifestyle 650 Home Entertainment System -Black or White $6,299.00 Premium 5 speaker home cinema system. Astonishingly seamless audio experience that melts luxuriously into your room. The glass-topped console is compatible with advanced audio and video sources, and connects the rear speakers and bass wirelessly. Read more >>

	Magnepan CC5 Centre Channel Loudspeaker with Australian landed tax and duties paid and 3 year local warranty Curved 2 way Quasi ribbon centre channel to match MMG,MG12,.7,1.6, and MG1.7/1.7i when used in a multi channel system, replaced the CC3 in early 2011 Read more >>

	Row One Cinema Seating Premium Home Cinema Seating with refrigerated cup holders & powered headrests. In your choice of Leather / Split Leather or 100% Leather. Read more >>

	Sonance Loudspeakers A range of custom in-wall and in-ceiling speakers and subwoofers, from basic to premium models. We can specify the correct model for your needs. Read more >>

	Sonos Playbar - Sonos TV Soundbar $898.00 Introducing Playbar by Sonos - The soundbar for music lovers. Complements HD television screens with richly textured HiFi sound. Read more >>

	Sonos Playbase - Black or White $895.00 Widescreen sound and music streaming for TVs on stands and furniture. Add SUB and two PLAY:1 rears for wireless 5.1 surround sound. Read more >>

	Sony VPL-HW45ES Home Cinema Projector $4,299.00 Full HD SXRD Home Cinema Projector with 1,800 lumens brightness - Black or White available. Read more >>