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The Next Generation of Star Trek Home Theaters
Push that red-alert button, step through the motion-activated air-lock doors and be transported to this spectacular home theater, bar and lounge.
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The bridge is the focal point of this impressive home theater, which CEDIA named its top theme theater in 2007.
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November 06, 2007 | by Rachel Cericola

Source gear as well as the A/V distribution stuff is located in an adjacent room. This is also where you will find what Hoover claims is “one of the largest Kaleidescape hard-drive based storage systems that I’ve ever heard of in a residential installation.” How big exactly? Think big bang, baby—at last count, there were eight servers with 3,816 DVDs.

The equipment list is extremely impressive—and it’s got even got award to prove it. In 2007, CEDIA (the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) chose this room as its top theme theater. However, they weren’t the only ones that were impressed with the outcome. “The homeowner was, to quote him directly, ‘blown away’,” says Hoover.

The theater experience may be out of this world, but it’s the little slice of sci-fi that gets our pointy ears tingling with delight. “The client has amassed a very large collection of original props, models and drawings from “Star Trek,” TV series and other sci-fi movies,” says Hoover. Highlights include motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects. There’s even a “Red Alert” button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller to turn all of the LEDs bright red and flashing, along with the actual sounds from “Star Trek” blaring. “If you don’t know it’s coming it scares the pants off guests.”

You may argue about our “Next Generation” proclamation, but there’s certainly no denying that this theater is a sci-fi spectacular. Hoover says that the homeowner is already plotting his next project; there are no details, but something tells us it’s going to be out of this world.



Rachel Cericola - Contributing Writer
Over the past 15 years, Rachel Cericola has covered entertainment, web and technology trends. Check her out at www.rachelcericola.com.


Equipment List
    Display
  • Gefen CAB-HDTV-30MM HDTV DVI Exreme Fiber Optic Cable (30 ft.)
  • Sony Q004R1 Qualia 004 SXRD Front Projector
  • Sony VPLLZP550 Long Throw Lens for Qualia 004
  • Stewart BRIC Masking Screen Control Interface
  • Stewart EMSNH135H 135-inch Horizontal Masking Screen w/Micrpoerf
    • Control System
  • Crestron C2ENET-2 Dual Port Ethernet Card
  • Crestron PRO2 Professional Dual Bus Control System
  • Crestron TPMC-10-DS Docking Station/Charger
  • Crestron TPMC-10 Isys i/O WiFi Touchpanel
    • Audio/Video Sources
  • Crestron CNXRMC Room Solution Box
  • DirecTv HR10-250 HD Satellite Receiver w/ TiVo
  • GuiFX Game Server Computer Gaming System (Custom)
  • JVC SR-VS30U Mini-DV / VHS Combo Player
  • Kaleidescape KPLAYER-2500 Kaleidescape Digital Movie Player
  • Marantz DV9600 Progressive Scan Universal DVD Player
  • Mitsubishi HSU748 VCR, S-VHS
  • Pioneer DVL-909 DVD/LD Player
    • Processing/Amplification
  • Algolith Mosquito HDMI 3D MPEG Noise Reducer
  • Gefen EXT-HD-441 4 HDMI x1 DVI HD Switcher
  • Key Digital KD-MSW8x3 Component & RGBHV Matrix Switcher
  • JBL S100IC Synthesis Interconnect Kits (2)
  • JBL S800 2-Channel THX Powered Amplifiers (9)
  • JBL SDEC2500A THX Digital EQ/Crossover
  • JBL SDP-40 THX Digital Surround Processor/System Controller
  • JBL Synthesis K2 Synthesis Hercules System
    • Speakers
  • JBL K2S1000DG 3-way Dual 10-inch Hercules Center
  • JBL K2S9800DG 3-way 15-inch Hercules Floorstanding (2)
  • JBL S1A Dual 8-inch Dipole Ambient THX Surrounds (4)
  • JBL S1S-EX 18-inch THX Subwoofers (4)
    • Power Conditioning/Surge Protection/Battery Back-up
  • Panamax M1500-UPS Battery Back-up/Surge Protectors (2)
  • Panamax MAX4400 Rack Mountable Surge Protectors, 20A (9)
  • Richard Gray RGPC1200 Power conditioner
    • Miscellaneous
  • Middle Atlantic ERK-4425 44-Space 25-inch Deep Stand-Alone Rack
  • Middle Atlantic RRF-45 45-Space Rack Rails, pair (2)
  • Moto-Fab Aluminum Seating Frame for D-Box (Custom)
  • Odyssey 340c D-BOX Series 3 Controller
  • Odyssey 4600p D-BOX XL-series Actuator Set
  • Pacific Digital MF-810SW 8x10 Memory Frames (2)

CONTACT
System Design & Installation
Audio Advisors
West Palm Beach, FL
www.audioadvisors.com

Design & Fabrication
Acoustic Innovations
Boca Raton, FL
www.acousticinnovations.com



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Comments (10) Most recent displayed first.
Posted by Dan  on  04/11/09  at  10:13 AM

How much this thing cost? I want one!!!!!!!

Posted by Joe  on  06/04/08  at  08:29 AM

Home theater looks amazing. I wish to have one.

Posted by Chuck McKenney  on  11/27/07  at  03:27 PM

For those who doubted the authenticity of the theater, here’s our new interview with the installer/designer along with pictures proving this theater exists.

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_home_theater_is_the_real_deal/

Posted by Ron  on  11/24/07  at  11:45 PM

I do 3D graphics professionally and I must say the pictures do look like untextured renders. Contrary to previous comments, it would not take a good 3D artist long at all to model such a room - indeed there are many who do so practising their 3D skills. If this room does indeed exist, it is a shocking and obscene monument to avarice. Something is horribly wrong where riches maty be wasted on this sort of self-aggrandizement while there are homeless and hungry children and ill veterans wandering the streets of our country. Shame on all involved.

Posted by Cindy Davis  on  11/20/07  at  06:34 PM

I know Jeff Hoover personally and he is a person of great integrity. He is a past president of CEDIA and runs a very well established business in Florida called Audio Advisors. Jeff would not risk his reputation to put forth a scam. As noted in the article this installation won a “Best Themed Theater” in the CEDIA Lifestyle Awards. CEDIA would not allow a fictional installation as an entry. The thing that puzzles me about your question is: Why on earth, or any other planet or galaxy would he arrange a scam in Photoshop? Why would anyone? It would be an awful lot of work for what gain? I don’t know if the photographer did any “smoothing out” in Photoshop, but I can assure you that this room exists. I talked to Jeff about it.

We post these themed home theaters for reader enjoyment. Our readers tell us they like them, so when we see one that we feel is interesting we take the time to research and write about it.

You have given me a thought however. I think it would be great fun to see fantasy home theaters that were put together entirely in Photoshop. Honestly—I think it would be cool to see what people would come up with.

With both feet firmly planted in reality,

Cindy Davis
Editor-in-Chief
Electronic House


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