Home Cinema Insight | CEDIA
AVXcellence has used TCD on no less than 20 projects already
Excel with The CEDIA Designer Anand Lulla from Pune-based CEDIA Member AVXellence explains how The CEDIA Designer (TCD) software has transformed the way his company does business. We subscribed to the TCD software quite soon after its launch in June 2016. TCD is a cloud-based, interactive, standards-driven online tool. We thought that it could significantly help our business, and we’ve been proved right. Preparing design quotes has always been very time consuming and since it is just a proposal, there is a chance that we do not land the project. The TCD tool reduces this time drastically and enables our design proposals to look very professional. Using TCD, we can produce a complete 30+ page cinema design proposal including audio and video calibration reports, aesthetic renders accurately reflecting the finished room, and 3D CAD drawings of the room. It brings the entire cinema design process into one place: we can enter in the dimensions of the room and then work methodically through the entire cinema design. TCD specifies the precise location of the loudspeakers, screen,
seating, projector, provides amplification and processor requirements, calculates the RT60 value, and much more. TCD improves our company image as the client is always impressed with our efforts. We use TCD only for dedicated cinema rooms and have used it for approximately 20 proposals so far. In one particular project we used TCD to design a highperformance theatre room that a client wanted to create in the basement of his villa. The total area was around 10m x 9m, but the client was unsure if he wanted a dedicated home theatre, created by splitting the area into two to create a cinema space and a separate entertainment area, or if he wanted a multi-purpose open plan entertainment room. After much discussion, the family decided they wanted an open, large multipurpose entertainment room which included a home theatre system.
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