The owners of this renovated basement designed their home theater around their favorite college football team, the University of Maryland Terrapins, commonly referred to as the Terps. The black and red color scheme sets the tone, as do a pair of acoustical panels that each prominently displays a silk screen of the Terrapin mascot.The 20-by-23-foot space looks decidedly more like a theater than a sports bar, but when the Runco projector fires up, the roomy 13-seat theater combines the comfort of a big-screen media experience with the excitement of multiscreen football action.
Not one, but four games can be presented simultaneously on the 123-inch Stewart Filmscreen screen. Making this magic happen is a Savant SmartView Video Tiling system, which was added to the A/V setup by the custom electronics professionals at Gramophone, Timonium, Md.
The owners use a companion Savant app on their iPad to select which games to tune into and how large to display each of them on the screen. For example, they might choose a large window for a Terps game, with the three smaller windows at the side each displaying a different matchup.
By touching the appropriate icon on the iPad, they can change the configuration of the window, perhaps choosing to eat up the entire screen with only a Terps game when the action gets intense. Movies and slideshows of family photos are options, too, by just tapping a Blu-ray or AppleTV button on the iPad.
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It’s a slick way to watch video, says Gramophone’s John Zucchet, one that wasn’t even part of the original design for the space.
“Initially, we had planned to install three separate flat-panel TVs, each with their own cable box,” he explains.
Additional TVs that were installed in other areas of the basement would have also required their own cable box—a setup that could have made controlling the various video options a very complicated process.
“We would have needed a cable box at every TV and multiple remotes,” says Zucchet.
With the Video Tiling system and the app, the owners need only one device to easily direct video from four cable boxes to the projection screen and to any of three flat-panel TVs. Zucchet says the Savant solution cost 25 to 50 percent more than the original design, but the owners felt the simplicity of control justified the extra investment.
Audio is just as easy to manipulate. The owners just touch which “window” they’d like to hear, and the Savant A/V matrix/switcher directs the sound to the theater’s surround-sound speakers, which include a trio of built-in Totem speakers at the front of the room, and four in-ceiling Totem speakers over the seats.
A custom Totem Tribe subwoofer in a signature Terps red completes the package … kind of. During the wiring phase of the project, Gramophone added cabling to support an additional subwoofer and a motorized drapery track at the back of the room, should the owners ever want bigger bass or to close off the bar from the viewing area.
Product List
Apple iPod Touches WIA4000
Apple Tvs
Audioquest Cat6 Cables CAT6B
Audioquest HDMI Cables
Audioquest 14/2 Speaker Wires FLXDB-14/2
B&W Ceiling Speakers CCM362
Chief RPA Elite Custom Projector Mount RPMA186
Chief Extension Pole CMS003
Chief Ceiling Plate CMS115
Furman F1500-UPS Devices with BlueBolt-CV1
Furman Surge Suppressor ELITE-15I with PlugLock-PFP
Integra Receiver DTR-20.4
Key Digital Audio Format Converter KD-DAXAA
Key Digital Receiver KD-CATHD100Rx
Liberty Quad Cable RG6
Lutron lighting
Nad A/V Surround Sound Receiver T757
Niles CAT-5 Stereo Audio Baluns C5-A2
Pakedge Gigabit PoE Power Injector PI-04
Pakedge Access Point W6
Pakedge Compact 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch S8W
Pakedge 24-Port Managed Gigabit Switch SW24-GBM
Pakedge Routers R6V
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Runco Lightstyle Projector LS-HB
Samsung 55” LCD Tv UN55ES6500 with Chief LSA-U bracket
Samsung 46” LCD Tv UN46F6400 with Chief LSA-U bracket
Savant Smartouch Remote SSR1000
Savant In-Wall iPod Platforms IDC-T000
Savant In-Wall Bezel iPods BZW-1IPOD
Savant Matrix Switcher/Controller SSP1200
Savant SmartControl 7 SSC-0007
Savant Output Card VOM-SV02
Savant 4 Source HDMI Card VIM-30D4
Savant 4 Zone HDMI Card VOM-30D4
Savant Host Controller HST4501
Savant 8 Zone Audio Card AOM-016U
Savant Audio Input Card AIM-0A16
Sonance 12Ch Amplifier SONAMP1230RM
Sony 3D Blu-Ray Player BDPS790
Stewart 123” Firehawk G3 Fixed Screen SNDQ123
Totem Tribe In-Wall Speaker TAW8
Totem Ceiling Speakers TAC6.5
Totem Fire Red Subwoofer
California House Bar Stools S8225
California House Game Chairs C8215
California House 48” Venice Game Table
California House Custom Bar
Cinemacoustic Custom Panels
ET2 1-Light “Buttons” Fixtures E22022-33
Murray Feiss 1-Light Vanity VS18201-BS
Murray Feiss 1-Light Pendant P1242AF
Murray Feiss 1-Light Sconces WB1451BS
Prosource Custom Cork Flooring & Carpet
Seagull Accent Disk Lights 9485-12, 9858-12
VIP HT Line, Callaway Seating
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