Some specialist outdoor home cinema companies are now marketing packages with inflatable movie screens and function built AV systems.
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In the 1950s, home movies became leading in the United States and elsewhere Home Theater Seating as Kodak 8 mm film (Pathé 9.5 mm in France) and camera and projector equipment became affordable
- Projected with a small, portable movie projector onto a portable screen, often without sound, this system became the first practical cabin theater
- They were generally used to show at ease movies of family travels and celebrations but also doubled as a means of showing private stag films
- Dedicated local cinemas were called screening rooms at the date and were outfitted with 16 mm or even 35 mm projectors for showing commercial films
- These were found almost exclusively in the homes of the very wealthy, especially those in the movie industry.