The Southern Downs Community Cinema provides an entertainment avenue to the smaller regions of the Southern Downs who do not have access to a commercial cinema. Community groups, organisations, businesses and recreational facilities will now have the opportunity to create memorable outdoor movie experiences that begin as the sun goes down.

Southern Downs Community Cinema can make your next event, community fundraiser or business function extremely unique and successful with complete DIY movie equipment. Whether screening movies old and new, documentaries, film festivals, short film competitions, video game competitions or sporting events our DIY hire service is perfect for outdoor cinema. Terrific for fund-raisers where keeping cost to a minimum is absolutely essential the cinema is not limited to the confines of four walls – it can be enjoyed outdoors, indoors, in the pool, by a lake, in a vineyard or in the park. The 5m movie screen caters for audiences of up to 200 people. The inflatable movie screen is extremely easy to set up and put away at the end of the evening.

The accompanying SmartBox has all the electronics packed together into one compact unit. Everything has been pre-wired so it is as easy as simply plugging in and playing. Now showing movies could not be easier and no technical skills are required. The SmartBox contains the appropriate Optoma projector for the required screen size, a DVD player with built in TV tuner and monitor to cue up the movie and keep an eye on things, an audio mixer to control the powered speakers, a light so you can see what you are doing in the dark and a wireless microphone for the use by the MC.

Behringer powered speakers with stands and all the cables to power and control the speakers are also provided. Speakers are matched to the size of the screen for optimum performance.

Auxiliary video and audio input for other devices like gaming consoles, video cameras, mp3 / iPods etc. A laptop computer can also be connected for screen presentations or promotional PowerPoint slides. 

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