What is Home Theater?
By Mitchell Medford

Home theater is the term used to describe the recent evolution of audio and video systems that offer exceptional quality and superior performance - in essence, it is like having a movie theater in your own living room.

The recreation obtained by the combination of audio and visual components creates the experience of a professional movie theater. The set-up may be as simple as a DVD player fed through a stereo system and a larger television set, or as elaborate as an entire room professionally wired with multiple speakers and a projection screen. A home theater system may even include theater-style chairs and an elevated floor for optimal viewing.
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Home Theater Projector: The Ultimate in Home Entertainment
By Ian Tham

If you have been salivating for a true home theater experience a projector beats any of the new fangled television technologies any time.

Think about it, you can get images up to 120 inches whereas the largest plasmas or rear projection TVs are only 70 inches in diagonal length. Furthermore, these huge televisions cost an exorbitant amount ranging from $5000 to $10,000.

Compare them to budget projector models which sell for less than $1,500. Now's really a good time to consider them. They used to cost many thousands of dollars and prices have since fallen.
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Home Theater Furnishing
By Robert Armstrong

To feel the magic of movies, you have to enjoy the movies. Furnishings and decorations can play a big part on how well you will enjoy your home theater system.

If you have the right room design, not only that you can improve your room's environment and athmosphere but greatly improve your movie experience as well.

To get a good home theater room design, there are several aspects of a room that need special attention. A good home theater room design will greatly affect the appreciation of your home theater system. First of all, you should control the lighting in your room. In most cases, there will be windows in a room and sun tends to enter the room through them. To keep the focus of the room on the screen you should avoid any light coming from the outside washing out the details on the screen. you should consider black or dark colored curtains.
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Buying a Home Theater Receiver
By Kenny Hemphill

Buying a receiver is one of the most important decisions you're going to have to make when building your home theater. The receiver has a number of functions including; connecting and switching audio sources; connecting and switching video sources; decoding surround sound formats; amplifying an audio signal and sending it to your speakers; tuning in to radio stations; and acting as the interface between you and your home theater.

The first thing to think about is whether you want a receiver at all or would you be better off buying a separate decoder, amplifier, and tuner?

Despite being a more expensive route - not to mention the extra space needed - separates do have some advantages. You can pick and choose your own combination of components, can upgrade each component individually and won't lose all the functions if one piece develops a fault.
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Home Theater Lighting
By Robert Armstrong

Home theater lighting is something you should consider once you've got the basics of your home theater set-up, and want to go a bit further and create an atmosphere in your theater.

One of the best ways to create the right atmosphere in any room is by using lighting, and home theater lighting has the added advantage that it actually improves the quality of the image on a screen.

Most of us are used to watching movies in darkness, and its generally agreed that all displays are at their best when the room is dark. So you just switch all the lights off, right? Well, yes and no. You need the lights on to get yourself set-up and operate the remote control before the movie starts, the last thing you want is to have to get up and cross the room to switch the lights off. The answer is to have a remote control home theater lighting system with which you can dim or switch-off the lights from the comfort of your sofa.
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