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New outdoor cinema projector & screen hire packages available from Surrey’s leading sound & lighting hire company

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With garden parties becoming the new festivals this year, another current entertainment trend making headlines is the continuing rise in popularity of outdoor cinemas. From public venues to back gardens, the outdoor silver screen has been making a comeback!

Not ones to sit still, we’ve invested in a range of outdoor screen solutions for those of you looking to hire an outdoor cinema screen. They include large LED screens for larger events and a range of smaller but incredibly powerful cinema projectors. So without further ado, let’s tell you all about them.

Hire an Outdoor Cinema Screen from the Sound & Light Hire Company

As mentioned, we’ve jumped at the opportunity to expand on our existing LED screen hire services to include a fantastic array of new large LED screens, all of which are perfect for hosting an organised event.

In terms of digital screen sizes, we start at 55″ and 85″ with our LED HD TV devices. However, we can go much bigger and bolder than that. For larger public or community events, we can build outdoor LED screens from 2m x 1m right up to an enormous 8m x 6m! Screens this size would be absolutely perfect to hire for your surrey-based drive-in cinema event.

If you’re looking to hire an outdoor cinema screen for your event, you may be wondering which is the best size to go for. We’ll concede that’s a fair enough question considering just how many dimensions we have available! Your size choice will, of course, depend on a myriad of factors relating to your proposed venue. Such as how much space you have for the screen footprint, and whether you need any supporting structure to elevate your screen above your attendees for a better viewing experience.

We always tend to recommend our 5m x 3m LED screen to our clients, mainly because this gives a perfect 16:9 aspect ratio, which is the most common format amongst films and movies. However, we appreciate that that size may not always be the best solution for your specific event and our friendly team will be more than happy to talk you through the options available to you, based on the desired location.

Next, you need to consider the pixel pitch. Without getting too technical, the pixel pitch refers to how close the LED pixels are to each other. The smaller the distance, the higher the resolution of the screen and the crisper the picture. We have two options available in this regard, 3.9mm and 12.5mm.

While it’s correct the 3.9mm pixel pitch LED screen will offer a crisper picture, it’s important to note that it’s not always the best solution for your event. Higher distances between pixels elongate the minimum viewing distance, and helps keep costs down if you’re viewers are not going to be position close to the screen.

For instance, for a popup drive-in cinema event a 12.5mm pixel pitch LED screen might be the better option as when at greater viewing distances, higher pixel density loses its visual advantages and simply increases the cost of the display. By contrast, if you’re hosting a garden party and want to hire a substantial outdoor LED screen, then 3.9mm would be the best option.

But what if you’re not thinking about hiring a sizeable LED screen, and instead you’re looking for an outdoor projector and screen package to wow your family, or impress your guests at your next garden party?

Luckily we’ve got plenty of solutions for you in that regard too!

Outdoor Cinema Projector Hire Surrey

There’s perhaps nothing more appealing than relaxing with a glass of wine, surrounded by your friends and family, settling in for a gripping movie while the sun is setting on a late summer’s evening! As we touched upon above, we’ve been hard at work to create a new line of outdoor cinema packages for you that include a powerful projector, with a range of screen sizes to suit your home’s specific outdoor space.

Our smallest is outdoor cinema hire package comes complete with 6ft x 4ft popup projector screen perfect for a movie night with the children. But if you want to go even larger for your family get-together, you could choose our medium outdoor cinema hire package, complete with 8ft x 6ft projector screen.

Are you hosting a garden party? Then you might want to upgrade to our large outdoor cinema hire package which comes complete with a giant 10ft x 8ft projector screen to make sure everyone can enjoy the view!

Regardless of the size of hire package you choose, our helpful team will show you how to set everything up before you take the equipment home with you, and we will supply you with all of the necessary cables (including HDMI) to ensure that you can easily connect your laptop to the projector.

Once home, set up should take no longer than 20 minutes. You’ll be tucking into your popcorn before you know it! And if the weather lets you down, you can always move these setups indoors and have a cosy evening inside sheltered from the rain.

How Much Does It Cost to Hire an Outdoor Screen?

The short answer is not as much as you might think! Take our small projector and screen hire package, which includes a state-of-the-art projector, all the cables you need, and a popup projector screen for just £80. Even if you want to go large and leave the guests at your summer garden party stunned, you won’t pay more than £200 for a cinema setup capable of wowing 250 guests!

If you’re planning on organising a commercial or community event and wish to hire an outdoor LED screen, then prices start at £25 per panel for 12.5mm pixel pitch and £75 per square metre for the sharper 3.9mm pixel pitch. Don’t forget that you may also need to budget a little extra for items such as delivery and setup up of any associated truss or staging structures to either support or suspend the screen from.

On that note, why not add to your outdoor cinema screen hire to make the experience immersive for your guests with our broad range of complementary equipment hire services?

Sound Equipment Hire Surrey

Of course, going to the cinema is almost as much about experiencing the superior, immersive sound as it about enjoying a much larger screen, which is why you’ll be well served to complement your fantastic outdoor cinema set up with a sound system to match.

Fortunately, we have a vast range of dry hire speaker packages are incredibly popular here at the Sound and Light Hire Company. Regardless of which size of speaker hire package you choose to accompany your outdoor screen, our team will walk you through how to connect the speakers to your laptop (we can always take more time if you need it).

To be honest, all you have to do on top of your existing setup is plug in the speakers to a power source, connect up your film-playing device (such as a laptop) through a 3.5mm jack, and that’s it!

The only issue left is deciding which speaker hire package to choose. If you’re hosting a small garden party, then we have a fantastic starter package with two speakers, two stands, a connection cable and all the power and signal cables starting at just £60! These speakers are designed to perform for gatherings of around 70 people, so plenty of power given current restrictions.

However, given how fluid the situation is, it may not be long before we are allowed to have up to 100 guests at a garden party. In which case, you may jump up a few notches to our medium speaker hire package. You get all of the benefits of our starter package but benefit from more powerful speakers and a state-of-the-art subwoofer that will provide you with that booming bass associated with the cinema experience.

Finally, our outdoor PA hire packages are perfect if you are hosting a larger commercial or community event. Don’t forget; we also have powerful battery-powered speakers for hire for scenarios whereby running power supply cables might not be practical.

With the sound sorted, you may want to go that extra mile and hire a few lighting fixtures to make the experience truly unforgettable.

Lighting Hire for Outdoor Cinema Surrey

Going to the cinema is an act of escapism. For a few hours, you forget about the troubles of the world and focus on the story unfolding in front of you. You can help to create that magical atmosphere in your back garden or at a suitable venue with the help of a few wise lighting choices.

We would strongly recommend one of our wireless LED uplighting packages that can provide a touch of class and professionalism to your event, whether it’s private or public. They can add that so-called “red carpet” feeling to your get-together. The added bonus is that you can light critical areas without the downside of having cables trailing over all your garden, presenting a potential trip hazard.

But don’t forget we can help you to take your cinema experience to the next level by creating a 4D experience. From dancing and jinking lasers and real dry-ice machines to using strobe lights during those high-octane action scenes, you can use lighting to create a totally immersive experience for your guests.

LED Furniture Hire for Outdoor Cinema Parties 

Speaking about immersive experiences, why not set the scene for your guest with an array of LED-lit furniture? These bright pieces will create a talking point and add a touch of pizzazz to your event. We have a range of options available, from LED cubes and LED tables, to a full-blown LED mobile bar!

But the list certainly doesn’t end there. We have an extensive range of LED furniture that includes benches, curved seating, bubble chairs, champagne buckets, stools, and the list goes on! We’re one of the only hire companies in the UK that have such an enormous selection of LED furniture.

They’re versatile too, with a battery life of up to 10 hours, and the choice of several static colours, or an automated program of fading colour patterns.

Hire an Outdoor Cinema Screen with The Sound & Light Hire Company

With cinemas not being the safest environments at this moment in time, what better way to recreate the same atmosphere with a magical outdoor cinema screening? If you’re looking to hire an outdoor screen, then you’re spoilt for choice with us. Whether you want to hire an outdoor projector and screen package, or you want to invest in an impressive LED screen, we’ve got the equipment in stock to make your evening unforgettable.

Of course, we also stock the inventory to make your garden party or outdoor event a genuine spectacle, with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to both sound and lighting hire.

If you would like to talk to a member of our team to receive expert help with constructing your perfect outdoor cinema evening, give us a call or shoot us an email regarding what you have in mind. We look forward to creating a truly memorable experience!

Come and get in touch about your next event, we look forward to hearing from you soon.

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