Home theaters can cost a lot of money to put together, and they are not within the reaches of everyone. Even an equivalent put together using the cheapest parts – a medium-sized TV, a basic DVD player and some cheap speakers – can be a financial stretch for a family. However, if you have the money then a home theater system can be the equivalent of a child’s favorite toy – one with endless add-ons and adaptability. It is not so much a matter of need as […]
More infoThe most complete home theaters will involve more than just the combination of a DVD player, some speakers and a TV screen of any size. What you put into your own home theater is a matter for you and your own preferences. It may contain a great deal of different add-ons, of which one or more might be used for gaming. Although gaming is something that can be enjoyed very easily by one person using a console and a small TV, there can be a benefit to […]
More infoIt is undoubtedly true that people who buy home theater equipment have different needs and different levels of knowledge for the products that they are buying. As with many other things, you can pay for a package deal which only requires you to put the finishing touches in place, or you can go for component parts and put them together yourself. It’s like buying ready made lasagne or the pasta sheets, ground beef, tomatoes, cheese and sauce ingredients. You may be paying for convenience, but what are […]
More infoPutting together a home theater is in many ways a bit like playing with Lego bricks. You start with some bits and pieces, and can add them together, and add to them, in such a way as to make something else. For many people, this is something that constitutes a hobby. Getting the best from your home entertainment system is a subjective matter – what you want from your home theater may be different from what other people would want, so it’s not just about the “best […]
More infoSpending a lot of money on installing a home theater is a way of experiencing new films in the way the director intended them to be enjoyed, but not everybody likes new movies. For the classicist, is there a danger that investing in new technology will take some of the spirit of the older movies they like? Certainly there has been some debate over the remastering of older movies for broadcast on newer technology, and whether this strips away the authenticity of the show – but is […]
More infoMost of us will be young enough to have got much of our youthful enjoyment from watching movies, and old enough to have spent much of that time watching them on video. This has brought about a special kind of nostalgia which yearns for the old movie nights which involved playing a few VHS cassettes of the latest releases and huddling around a TV screen about the size of, or little bigger than, a microwave oven. One of the most common complaints about newer technology is that […]
More infoThe world has been advancing technologically since before most of us were born but it may seem like the concept of advancing technology is a recent thing. The reason for this seems to be the rate of progress. We are scarcely digesting the magic of big-screen high-definition TV and all of a sudden the next big thing is arriving. For fans of technological wizardry the big talking point in the middle of 2014 is the magic of 3D TV. It may seem like a kitschy throwback to […]
More infoSetting up a viable movie complex in your own home is something that may not be within the reach of the average consumer – and something which, to be done properly, may well demand a level of technical knowledge that most people do not have – but it is increasingly an option in the present day. How we go about this is up to us – and the range of options available means that it is something that can be done in a whole plethora of different […]
More infoIf money were no object, what kind of system would you install in your own home for the purposes of entertainment? As time goes on, the restrictions on what we can reproduce in our houses are disappearing, with only the issue of cost to really hold up what we can do. Admittedly that issue is a very real one for the majority of people, but there are more and more options for people below the top income brackets that are getting closer and closer to the point […]
More infoWatching a film on a dedicated home entertainment system is not a new idea, per se. For many years the average family has had the option to watch a film of their choice on their own TV screen, as the commercial market in video technology has grown. But there has always been, and will continue to be a difference, between watching at home and watching in a cinema – unless you have a cinema in your home, of course. What the improvement of home entertainment technology has […]
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