When it comes to choosing an entertainment system for your home, knowing exactly how they work and what goes into creating a system befitting of certain room sizes and configurations is important.
A company like Home Theater Group can see to it that you get all the right components and quality products to help you in your quest for proper home entertainment – but that doesn’t automatically mean you can make the most of it, without knowing exactly what you need.
Display or Projector?
It’s the lynchpin in many an entertainment system, and for a good reason – your choice of display is very, very important when building a proper home theater and for obvious reasons. In that department, your two main categories are always the TV and the projector. Which is more comfortable for you? Which is more cost-effective? Which do you prefer for clearer or larger images? And don’t forget the aspect ratio, as per Home Theater Review.
High-end projectors today can offer an unparalleled level of entertainment, but they also come at an extreme cost. On the other end, a flat-screen TV is much more affordable, but even there the quality and prices vary immensely.
How Many Speakers?
A common configuration is to have 5.1 channels for speakers – that means five speakers and a subwoofer, in a 3-and-2 configuration around the seating arrangement.
The role that speakers play in entertainment is equally large to that of the display – where a display lets the eyes feast on entertainment, a home theater is nothing without engaging the ears as well. The home theater, as per How Stuff Works, is the alternative to the actual theater – so it has to hold up.
Matching Electronics with Source Components
The brains and body of a theater system are the electronics dedicated to playing and perceiving data for the peripherals to translate into entertainment. Basically, this is your DVD player and the console dedicated to communicating between the DVD player, the TV, the stereo system and anything else you’ve got hooked up to it all.
