Personalizing Your Home Theater System
Depending on the type of consumer, home theater systems may vary dramatically.
Some just prefer the bare minimum of what works, while others feel that the latest technology of the moment is the best the industry has to offer.
The following are examples of what either end of the spectrum might be looking for.
The lowest common denominator among TVs is considered to be the box-like projection-style we all owned in the late nineties.
It made use of a dual screw adapter to connect to other devices such as VCRs, indoor antennas, and video game systems.
Much later, at its height, it offered a coaxial cable setup and bypassed the adapter, reducing 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 traditional way to recreate sound as the original producers intended.
Older systems 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 rounded the nineties and beyond, the mainstream format for audio and video became the disc.
CDs and DVDs both fit in the same cases, being physically the same shape and size, and that fact alone made them rise in popularity almost right after each other, just as their players did.
Now, the new mainstream format of sound is multi-channel high definition surround sound, made popular by Dolby.
This newer format allows the audience to experience the sound all around them as though they are directly 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 standard of high-quality video entertainment with its higher definition display to match the currently mainstream HDTV format.
3D may become more welcome if they can somehow eliminate the need for special glasses to get the full experience.
All of these factors come into play when choosing your style among home theater systems.
Some just prefer the bare minimum of what works, while others feel that the latest technology of the moment is the best the industry has to offer.
The following are examples of what either end of the spectrum might be looking for.
The lowest common denominator among TVs is considered to be the box-like projection-style we all owned in the late nineties.
It made use of a dual screw adapter to connect to other devices such as VCRs, indoor antennas, and video game systems.
Much later, at its height, it offered a coaxial cable setup and bypassed the adapter, reducing 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 traditional way to recreate sound as the original producers intended.
Older systems 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 rounded the nineties and beyond, the mainstream format for audio and video became the disc.
CDs and DVDs both fit in the same cases, being physically the same shape and size, and that fact alone made them rise in popularity almost right after each other, just as their players did.
Now, the new mainstream format of sound is multi-channel high definition surround sound, made popular by Dolby.
This newer format allows the audience to experience the sound all around them as though they are directly 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 standard of high-quality video entertainment with its higher definition display to match the currently mainstream HDTV format.
3D may become more welcome if they can somehow eliminate the need for special glasses to get the full experience.
All of these factors come into play when choosing your style among home theater systems.
