Some people have built upon the idea, and constructed mobile drive-in theaters that can play movies in metropolitan open spaces. Usually, these call Home Theater Chairs upon a powerful projector, a laptop or DVD player, outdoor speakers and/or an FM transmitter to broadcast the audio to other machine radios.

The elaborating of multi-channel audio systems and laserdisc in the 1980s added latest dimensions for at rest cinema. The first established central cinema system was installed as a sales tool at Kirshmans furniture store in Metairie, Louisiana in 1974. They built a designated complete margin which incorporated the earliest quadraphonic audio systems and modified Sony trinitron televisions for projecting the image.