subject: What Is Needed For Your Home Entertainment Viewing? [print this page] There are a handful of things that you need in order to have that perfect home entertainment center that you have always desired. The television is certainly paramount and by far the most imperative aspect of the total set-up. But there are a couple of additional pieces that will make almost as much of a difference and be just as important.
First thing to look at is the component which you're going to enjoy the movies on? Are you going to go with the DVD player that you have been making use of and use the DVDs that you have already been collecting? DVDs do look awesome on an HDTV and will do just fine. Although if you want to take it to the next level, then you may perhaps want to give some thought to stepping up to a new Blu-ray player. Blu-rays deliver the only real HD experience that you can have in your home.
If you pair a Blu-ray player with the correct HDMI cables then your picture and sound will be in true high definition. Of course you can still play all of your old DVDs on the new Blu-ray player so you dont have to get rid of any of them. All Blu-ray players are backwards compatible and will be able to play DVDs and CD formats. But besides what format you decide to play your movies on, you still have to worry about the sound. When it comes to your surround sound system, you do have a few choices. For most people there is no need to go for the most expensive and most intricate system available.
A serviceable system that has enough, but not too much power will be just fine. There are some people out there that will want to build the system on their own and put all of the parts together. Keep in mind, while the system you build will be better than what you can usually buy as a premade unit, it will usually cost you more money. Individual components will almost always cost more than a complete unit that has already been put together.
That is usually true, but there are some top of the line systems that can cost just as much. If you put your own system together, you will need a receiver to run all of the sound through and any other components such as a DVD player and for all the speakers to run through.
