Welcome to Leica’s ‘Cinema TV’, an ultra-short-throw projector with TV tuners, smart streaming, and a built-in sound system — as the name suggests, it is intended as a complete TV replacement. You can plug in external sources, but the Cine 1 could provide everything you need in one neat and quite gorgeous package. It’s a stunner.
A home theatre projector might seem rather the side-step for Leica Camera AG, global manufacturer of high-end cameras and lenses. But perhaps not so much, if we step back a little in time. Photography has always been a form of home entertainment in itself, and in many 1960s and 1970s homes the biggest available imaging system would have been a projector and a large square screen for showing carousels of 35mm transparencies mounted in slides.
Many was the home where this task was entrusted to a stylish Leica/Leitz Pradovit slide projector, the height of home entertainment in its day. Hence Leica sees the Cine 1 as a return to ‘lean-back’ lounge entertainment, as well as completing a circle for a company which makes high-end cine lenses “designed to accompany cinematographers in the masterful creation of their visions around the world”.
Build & facilities
Leica’s external design is lovely
