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Now and then a new piece of kit arrives that makes you wonder why you hadn't seen something like it before. Samsung's The Freestyle (p52) is such a gizmo – a flexible projector that doubles as a smart light. Lighting has been on my mind a lot recently, partly because I've had plenty of fun experimenting with and enjoying Nanoleaf's Lines modular system (p62), but more because I've been gobsmacked by the lighting design of this issue's Dream Theatre install (p34). Here's a cinema room with such imaginative illumination that I'm not sure, if I owned it, I'd ever want to dim the lights for a movie. Sympathetic mood lighting can add that all-important wow factor to any AV room (and bias lighting can have performance benefits too), but why…
