AIM Inc. has been installing home theaters since 1984 using state of the art front projectors and electronic components. Our clients receive the benefit of AIM Inc. having been trained by the best and brightest in the industry.
AIM Inc. can take an empty room and transform it into a home theater that would rival some of the best movie theaters you have been in, both in terms of picture and sound quality. We specialize in widescreen technology which allows the picture to fill the entire screen with no gaps at the top and bottom, thus eliminating that "Letterbox" effect. This is achieved by either utilsing a device called a PANAMORPH lens, which is placed in front of the projector's lens, or using the "lens memory" function that some models have built in. To ensure the highest quality picture possible, AIM Inc. only installs SONY and JVC laser projectors utilizing a technology known as LCoS. This ensures a brighter, more detailed picture with a better contrast ratio than other projectors in the same price range.
For the sound equipment, AIM Inc. uses the latest available components, such as THX licensed equipment, a standard set forth by Lucasfilm which ensures that the sound you hear will be the same as that heard in a movie theater. This includes the surround sound receiver (or pre-amp/amplifier), all the speakers and the subwoofer.
Room treatment is essential in a well designed home theater. Strategically placing sound deadening material (usually in the form of panels) in order to control errant sound reflections makes a huge difference in the sound quality of any room.
No good home theater is complete without an easy to use universal remote control. What's the use of sitting down with the family to watch a movie and not being able to turn it on because you don't know what remote to use? AIM Inc.'s universal remotes are programmed so simply, even a guest could pick one up and know how to turn everything on.
The secret is what's known as a Macro. This is a series of commands that the remote sends to the equipment in a predetermined sequence. For example, if you wanted to watch a movie on Netflix the old fashioned way, you would need a minimum of four remote controls: one to turn on the projector, one to turn on the sound, one to turn on the streaming device and one to turn off the lights. You would then have to know which input to put the receiver on and how to navigate to the Netflix screen. Macro commands do that all for you with one button push which turns the projector on, turns the receiver on, goes to the streaming device input, goes to the Netflix screen and then turn the lights down.
Universal remotes come in all types: Black and white, color, push button, touchscreen and of course the latest in universal remotes: your own smartphone or tablet. Another advantage of using a universal remote is that you are able to install your equipment anywhere you want. This is because, unlike an IR (Infra Red) remote that normally comes with the equipment, universal remotes use RF (Radio Frequency) technology. With IR remotes, you have to point the remote directly at the equipment, whereas with RF remotes you do not.
Whatever you need in a home theater, AIM Inc. can provide it for you.
THE HISTORY of HOME THEATER
Today's home theaters had their humble beginnings in the early '70s when both foreign and domestic manufacturers developed heavy, suitcase sized front projectors that had three large lenses in front with a red, green and blue CRT tube behind each one. They were primarily used in boardrooms as computer displays and also in airplanes. In the early '80s a few entrepreneurs, most notably Sam Runco (RUNCO) and Sammy Mohr (PULSAR) envisioned a use for them in residential homes and modified them so that they could be used with the newly introduced VCRs and cable boxes. (Henry Kloss's NOVABEAM was designed specifically for home use.)
In 1984, while attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I came across a display of the PULSAR. I was so captivated by the bright 8 foot wide image that I signed up to become a dealer, installed one in my basement and invited prospective clients to experience this exciting new technology for themselves. As a result, I was soon installing front projectors in homes and Sports Bars using the name "Media Room Design".
The missing component in these rudimentary home theaters was great sound. Most good movie theaters now had surround sound, but there was nothing available for the home that duplicated that sound. This all changed in 1985 when Jim Fosgate (head of the team that created Dolby Pro Logic II) introduced the FOSGATE DSM 3601 for the consumer market. This Dolby Surround Sound Decoder now allowed for the connection of not just two (left and right) but five speakers: three in the front (left, center, right) and two in the rear (left and right surrounds). If you added a subwoofer for those low bass sounds, it duplicated that distinct sound that you had heard at the movie theater, and with the addition of a Laserdisc player (introduced in Atlanta at the end of 1979) which produced a much clearer and sharper picture and far better (digital) sound than a VCR. you had the makings of a true home theater. (Incidentally, the first movie with true Dolby Surround Sound was 1979's Apocalypse Now).
All those cumbersome front projectors had one big problem: they had to constantly be "converged". This meant that all three lenses had to be lined up one on top of the other at the screen, using built-in adjustment screws, otherwise the picture would appear blurry. Consequently in 1989, when Sharp introduced their carry-on sized SHARPVISION XV-100, which utilized a bright lamp shining through a single LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) panel and lens, it was considered a totally revolutionary product, and as it turns out, was the forerunner of all modern projectors. It also had a much brighter and sharper picture than anything previously produced.
That same year, while attending another CES show, I joined a group of people who, like me, were doing custom home installations and we founded the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association. Starting out with less than 100 members, CEDIA has now grown to over 100,000 members wordwide and has its own trade show dedicated to the custom home integration market. liaising with manufacturers, CEDIA has become influential in shaping products to suit the home theater market.
Another breakthrough in home theater technology came about that same year when George Lucas's company, Lucasfilm, developed a standard called THX specifically for the home theater market. Up until then, THX had been developed exclusively for movie theaters to ensure that the audience heard the same great sound no matter where they attended a movie. Now a consumer could purchase a THX branded piece of equipment and be assured that it conformed to the strict standards set by the THX committee.
About the same time, huge developments were taking place in the Broadcasting Industry with the beginnings of what ultimately was to become HDTV (High Definition Television). When the developers of digital HDTV leapfrogged over analog HDTV, it was clear that TV as we knew it was to change forever. No longer would we have to squint at a fuzzy TV screen to try and make out writing or faces in a crowd. Now, for better or worse, we could see every whisker on an unshaven chin.
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