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About us

Two families of craftspeople, one standard

Boston Home Cinema is the home theater studio of Boston Automations, built on a partnership with CinemaTech, the family-owned theater design and seating company.
Boston Automations

Technology that disappears into beautiful homes

Boston Automations is a full-service smart home and technology company with a design studio at 83 Morse St, Unit 8H in Norwood, Massachusetts. We design, install and support lighting, shades, networking, whole-home audio, automation and home theaters for homeowners, builders and designers across New England.

Our work earned the 2024 Lutron Excellence Award and the 2024 Sonance + James Loudspeaker Project of the Year (Designed to Disappear). We work alongside some of the region's most respected builders and interior designers, and everything we install can be run from a single app.

Boston Home Cinema focuses that experience on one room. Sister studios Boston Golf Simulators and Boston Backup Power do the same for golf simulators and home backup power.

CinemaTech

A family company since 1998

CinemaTech began in 1998 when founder Michael Murphy helped design a theater recliner for his business partner. That seat became the Valentino, still CinemaTech's signature. Today the company is led by his daughter, Alexandria Baker, and remains family-owned.

CinemaTech builds seating in Germany and the USA, designs private cinemas through its Design Services Program, and holds the rights to the patented Acoustic Room System. Its showrooms are in Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami and New York, and its work has been featured by Architectural Digest and The New York Times.

Milestones

How we got here

  1. 1998

    CinemaTech is founded in Dallas, and the first Valentino is sketched by hand in July.

  2. 2000s

    CinemaTech creates the Design Services Program and the Fly-and-Buy Program.

  3. 2005

    CinemaTech acquires the patented Acoustic Room System.

  4. 2018

    CinemaTech marks twenty years of luxury theater design.

  5. 2024

    CinemaTech introduces the three-motor mechanism and motorized chaise. Boston Automations wins the Lutron Excellence Award and the Sonance + James Loudspeaker Project of the Year.

  6. 2026

    Boston Home Cinema brings CinemaTech design and seating to New England homes with Boston Automations.

Original 1998 pencil sketch of the Valentino theater seat

Author of our guides

Adam Zell

Boston Automations

Adam leads Boston Automations and writes the guides on this site. His team has designed and installed home technology for New England homes for years, and he works directly with clients, architects and builders on every theater project.

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A conversation about your theater

Tell us about the room, the way your family watches, and the feeling you want when the lights go down. We will bring CinemaTech's design team, our engineers and a plan.

Or call us at (781) 333-8003