Designing Your Home Theater System
Relying on the type of consumer, home theater systems may vary a great deal. Some just want the bare minimum of what works, while others think that the newest technology of the moment is the best the industry has to offer. The following are scenarios of what either end of the spectrum might be seeking.
The least popular today among TVs is thought to be the box-like projection-style we all had in the late nineties. It used a dual screw adapter to connect to other devices such as VCRs, indoor antennas, and video game systems. Later on, at its peak, it offered a coaxial cable setup and bypassed the adapter, decreasing the number of steps in the connection of higher quality devices.
Today, flat-screen HDTVs are the norm, with high-end versions run up in the sixty inch and higher sizes with plasma and LED displays, and improved 3D technology requiring a special kind of glasses to achieve the most effective picture. Still others have large rooms equipped with old-style theater projectors and a silver fabric screen, much like the die-hard professional movie theaters.
Stereo is the usual way to recreate sound as the original producers intended. Older schemes are simple cassette players that may or may not come with the frill of an AM/FM radio and a telescoping wire antenna. As we fast forward to the nineties and beyond, the mainstream format for audio and video became the disc. CDs and DVDs both fit in the same cases, being constructed the same shape and size, and that feature alone made them rise in popularity almost right after each other, just as their players did.
Presently, the highly craved format of sound is multi-channel high definition surround sound, made popular by Dolby. This brand-new format allows the audience to experience the sound all around them as though they are centered in the middle of the music or movie.
The earliest format still possibly available to movie fanatics is the VHS tape, or video-cassette. It was playable for only a limited amount of time before the players, known as VCRs, began running wrong and rendering them junk by messing up the integrity of the tape. These problems became obsolete when DVDs hit the mainstream, thanks in part to the introduction of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 video game systems, which utilized the format for their games and forced regular DVD players to be more affordable to the consumer in order to compete with them.
Today, Blu Ray has become the central proponent of high-quality video entertainment with its higher definition display to compliment the currently available HDTV format. 3D may become more widely used if they can somehow do away with the requirement for special glasses to obtain the full experience.
These parts all come into consideration when choosing your design among these home theater systems.
The least popular today among TVs is thought to be the box-like projection-style we all had in the late nineties. It used a dual screw adapter to connect to other devices such as VCRs, indoor antennas, and video game systems. Later on, at its peak, it offered a coaxial cable setup and bypassed the adapter, decreasing the number of steps in the connection of higher quality devices.
Today, flat-screen HDTVs are the norm, with high-end versions run up in the sixty inch and higher sizes with plasma and LED displays, and improved 3D technology requiring a special kind of glasses to achieve the most effective picture. Still others have large rooms equipped with old-style theater projectors and a silver fabric screen, much like the die-hard professional movie theaters.
Stereo is the usual way to recreate sound as the original producers intended. Older schemes are simple cassette players that may or may not come with the frill of an AM/FM radio and a telescoping wire antenna. As we fast forward to the nineties and beyond, the mainstream format for audio and video became the disc. CDs and DVDs both fit in the same cases, being constructed the same shape and size, and that feature alone made them rise in popularity almost right after each other, just as their players did.
Presently, the highly craved format of sound is multi-channel high definition surround sound, made popular by Dolby. This brand-new format allows the audience to experience the sound all around them as though they are centered in the middle of the music or movie.
The earliest format still possibly available to movie fanatics is the VHS tape, or video-cassette. It was playable for only a limited amount of time before the players, known as VCRs, began running wrong and rendering them junk by messing up the integrity of the tape. These problems became obsolete when DVDs hit the mainstream, thanks in part to the introduction of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 video game systems, which utilized the format for their games and forced regular DVD players to be more affordable to the consumer in order to compete with them.
Today, Blu Ray has become the central proponent of high-quality video entertainment with its higher definition display to compliment the currently available HDTV format. 3D may become more widely used if they can somehow do away with the requirement for special glasses to obtain the full experience.
These parts all come into consideration when choosing your design among these home theater systems.
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