Tribal Screens
2007 July 25
A friend of mine, Kirby Holmes, has started a new company called Tribal Screens. These screens are for home theaters and are quite impressive. The reason Kirby named them Tribal Screens is because he wants them to catalyze community not deconstruct it.
He envisions families and neighbors gathering to watch special events together, creating opportunities for great entertainment and opportunity for personal connection.
As a new business owner that is selling an entertainment technology that has every intention of getting more people in front of the TV, I have a new angle on what the experience means.
I am not intending to deconstruct community by isolating people in front of their televisions, rather, the goal is to construct community and experiences for “your tribe”.
Projection screen viewing is not about having an onslaught of TV on in the background (or foreground) of life. A projector and screen is used for special viewing occasions. When you consider the bulbs burn out after about 3,000 hours and cost around $350 a piece it tends to be used with greater scrutiny for content and environment.
The projector is used for those special moments of Movies – the next Big Championship Game – or for kids, friends and families to interact during Multi-player Gaming sessions (Nintendo’s Wii is another take on building community around video technology.)
Tribal Screens builds community around the immersion experience of front projection video screens.
Kirby Holmes