How to Take a Home Theatre Anywhere

Customers itching for an al fresco home theatre experience might soon have a solution with Hitch Theatres-- a line of portable projector screens and stands allowing one to take the theatre nearly anywhere.

Hitch TheatresThe idea of portable home theatres came to company founder Joe Livingstone on a date, unsurprisingly enough. Apparently he once took a date stargazing out of town, where decided to watch a movie under the stars on a laptop. From there he started wondering about creating a portable drive in theatre.

Hitch Theatre proposes three flavours of portable home theatre-- True Drive-In Theatre (allows one to project a movie across the bed of a truck), Group Date (adds a tall projector stand with removable DVD and sound shelf) and Movie Night (a freestanding portable projector screen complete with tall stand, removable DVD and sound shelf). The screen is 122-inch, while the rooftop stand is around 30cm tall.

With all 3 versions the company claims the entire kit (frame, guylines, screen, etc) folds in a bag around the size of a large foldable camping chair, making it fit in the trunk of a car.

Currently the Hitch Theatre exists only in prototype form, but the maker is currently taking preorders on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform.

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