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Seasons Greetings

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:38:37 +0000

Seasons Greetings from all of us,
Harrogate Home Cinema would like to wish you all the best for the forthcoming holiday season! With many thanks for all your business and support in the past 12 Months we look forward to working with you in the New Year!
2012 is looking very exciting, with some fantastic new products from Meridian on their way, the latest 4K 3D projectors from JVC and much, much more.
Feel like giving the gift of music this christmas? We have stock of Sonos products ready to take away – call ahead and we can wrap it up for you too!
We will be closing over the christmas period to new installation bookings, shutting shop on the 23rd December, and re-opening on the 5th January. If anyone needs to get in touch between these dates, fear not, as our phones will be monitored daily between Boxing Day and New Years Eve.

Christmas and New Year Opening Times

23rd December – 5th January : Closed

6th January – Onwards: Usual Opening Times 9:30-17:00

All The Best,

The Team

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Birthday Donation for Charity

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:41:49 +0000

At Harrogate Home Cinema, we are celebrating our second birthday by giving presents and not receiving any!

To mark our 2nd Birthday, we have donated a hi-tech internet enabled Blu-Ray player and selection of DVD’s to the candlelighters childrens cancer charity.

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Now Showing… iPod Control

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:02:43 +0000

Here at Harrogate Home Cinema, we have been working on a new home control system using touch panel technology allowing an Apple iPad, iPhone or iTouch to become an enhanced home controller. Downloaded as an App on iTunes, a bespoke design can be created to the customers specification, in order to control their AV, lighting, heating and security systems within a single application.

This system will also be available shortly for Android devices.

Utilising either the clients home network, or a bespoke network build, This control system can talk to entertainment technologies wirelessly, either directly via ip (ethernet) or through a number of “modules” making this a thoroughly scalable solution.

The beauty of Apple Products can be utilised in creating a subtle, stylish control system with numerous benefits:

The iPhone, for those who have them, can mean an end to the use of all other remotes, you will never have to search for a remote again.

The iPad, combined with some bespoke user interface design can combat many frustrations with such systems, such as not being able to see or read buttons, or not easily being able to press them reliably due to their small size/spacing.

And with the wealth of Android devices now being added to the portfolio, there now exists an accessible, practical and scalable control system for all aspects of your home life that doesn’t require you to get a new remote

The excuse is there though.

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Sonos – Now Even More Flexible!

andy@audiovogue.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:14:14 +0000

OK, Sonos. Obviously, we’re big fans of Sonos here at Harrogate Home Cinema, but the Sonos S5 all-in-one system has always been a touch limited in my opinion. Yes it goes loud and sounds great, but what about for larger rooms where hard-wiring a ZP120 amplifier in with some large speakers isn’t really an option? Well, they’ve cracked it now by offering a ‘stereo pair’ option for two S5′s! It’s simple. Place one S5 at either end of a room, and link them together to work as one unit. Now we’ve got a pair running together in our home cinema showroom in Harrogate, I can see what Sonos were thinking. They sound fantastic, and will fill even large rooms with powerful, well weighted stereo sound. And, they remain completely portable too! Perfect for taking one up to bed with you on an evening, or laving one by an open door during barbeque season! Well done Sonos!!

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Fit for purpose video distribution

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:57:48 +0000

Alot of home automation companies out there always try to push the latest technologies onto people, causing the end user to pay for the companies’ Research and Development, essentially meaning the client is often left footing the bill for the AV company to experiment on the end-users install.

At Harrogate Home Cinema, we operate a little differently. Although we want to allow users to take full advantage of emerging technologies, we always want to give the client a stable system.

With this in mind, at the pictured site, we decided to wire for all eventualities, running a core infrastructure of multiple Cat5e/Cat6 cables, meaning that as soon as the 3d-tv format is fully stabilised, the client can easily, and cost-effectively upgrade to the stable new platform. However, with this in mind, we explained the full pro’s and con’s of existing HD distribution systems to the client, and through joint agreement, decided that the most realistic way of distributing video while the market finds its feet/stabilises, was to utilise the RF cable infrastructure to temporarily distribute the existing sources via a backfeed system. Although there is an obvious temporary compromise in image quality, the temporary system is only distributing to relatively small screens (no bigger than 22″).

The resulting real lack in quality is barely noticable. This temporary solution is allowing the client a more than adequate viewing experience in their kitchen and bedroom, whilst allowing them to watch the market and ensure they invest in the correct distribution system at the correct time.

Needless to say, At Harrogate Home Cinema, we don’t believe in selling expensive systems with limited future potential.

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Here to Help

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:33:34 +0000

At Harrogate Home Cinema we always put customer satisfaction first. That’s why, when an existing client of ours decided that the speakers they had sampled and loved in our in-store demo facility, and so purchased for their (large, vaulted ceiling) music listening room, were a little inadequate, we were more than happy to replace them with the Canton Chrono SL 520′s, allowing a big full-range sound for the purpose-built listening environment.

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Our News IS Good News!

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:32:25 +0000

Here at Harrogate Home Cinema, we’re back in the news again. This time our local Advertiser has picked up our story, feel free to read the article in full on the harrogate advertiser website

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Rako Online Store

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:59:49 +0000

Harrogate Home Cinema have now launched a rako store to cater to anyone in the uk who want to try their hand at intelligent or mood lighting. Backed off by our staffs excellent knowledge of the Rako lighting system, not only do we offer the full rako mood lighting catalogue, but also the outstanding service and after-sales care that you have come to know and trust from Harrogate Home Cinema

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Sonos Online Store

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:47:57 +0000

The Sonos Multi-Room Music System lets you play all the music you want, all over your house—from the bedroom to the backyard—and control it all from the palm of your hand. It’s the first wireless multi-room music system of its kind and it’s going to change the way you listen to music at home. With a Sonos Controller in hand, your entire music library, Internet radio and online music services are at your fingertips. And with Sonos ZonePlayers in all the rooms where you want music, you can simply pick a room, find a song and touch play.

Click here to visit the site and buy sonos now

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Read All About It!

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:24:43 +0000

Big hits with the big screen

TWO men who bring the big-screen experience into the home are proving a box office hit.
Their business, Harrogate Home Cinema, may be new but it has already done one installation in Nigeria and is working on another in Portugal.

Partners Peter Hudspeth and Andy Wyatt met while working at the same company and after two years decided to go it alone.

They now operate from Bower Road, Harrogate, and between them they have 15 years’ experience in the audio visual and music industries.

read the full article at

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/businessnews/Big-hits-with-the-big.6361809.jp

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