Drive-in cinema in your own backyard

Jun 1, 2006 07:00 GMT  ·  By

Have you always been fascinated by the drive-in cinemas, and you'd like to have one in your own backyard? Well, a good solution would be to move your wide-screen TV there, but this operation could pose certain dangers (especially for the TV), so you should try a safer one, as, for example, the inflatable home theater screen.

As we can gather from its name, the device is wide (2.44 meters x 2.13 meters) and can be inflated in just 4 minutes, using the attached electrical pump, and also deflated and stored away quite easily. Moreover, the screen has 2 amplified speakers, which offer a very good quality sound (at least according to the manufacturers, although it's quite hard to get even remotely close to the level of a surround system), and are especially protected against various weather conditions.

In fact, the entire Inflatable Screen is weatherproof, as it is manufactured out of water-resisting PVC and also has 2 nylon rope tie-downs, in order to prevent any kind of problems caused by bad weather. The Inflatable Screen costs 1000 dollars, the projector not being included, but it's not that much for installing a cinema in your own backyard.

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