Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Making The Connection

Putting 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 […]

Do Old Movies Look Right On New Technology?

Spending 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 […]

Does A Home Theater Take The Soul Out Of Entertainment?

Most 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 […]

How 3D TV Fits In A Home Theater

The 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 […]

Building Your Home Theater

Setting 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 […]

Your Home Entertainment System

If 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 […]

Why A Bigger Screen Makes A Movie Better

Watching 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 […]

Home Entertainment In The Present Day

There was a time – and it is not in the far-distant past, either – when if you wanted to see a film you would have to go to the cinema to enjoy it. As time went on, the possibility of watching a film of your choice was extended into the home by the development […]