The Canadian company D-Box is known for the motion coding technology used in home theatre seating, and now commercial movie theatres. The company introduced a gaming chair a few years back, but the price tag was too steep for the average consumer.

At CEDIA Expo, the tradeshow aimed at custom installers and home theatre specialists that concluded during the second week of September in Atlanta, GA, D-Box debuted its GPH-120 "entry-level" model, a hybrid chair that can be used for both playing compatible games and watching D-Box encoded films.

At $4,100 it's hardly an impulse buy, but certainly heading in the right direction when you consider the $13,000 asking price of the next model up!

The GPH-120 employs dual actuators that supply motion in sync with compatible games and movies. Finished in bright orange and black, the chair comes with a platform for mounting a steering wheel, and a small side table for placing a mouse (typically used in fighter games).

Currently, D-Box motion coding is embedded into 12 PC games (there is no gaming console support yet), but the company expects to add 20 more by mid 2010.

Hundreds of movie titles already feature D-Box motion coding.

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