subject: Tips To Setting Up A Home Theatre System At An Affordable Price [print this page] A few years ago, the concept of the home theater started becoming popular. However, those days, a 32-inch color TV with a descent sound system was regarded as a home theater. That was the best they could get at that time. Today, a 32-inch TV is something that most of us have at our homes and is nowhere close to the innovative home theaters that are available today. Several years ago, people used to watch the new movie releases on their VCR connected with their so-called Home Theater. But these days, most of us have forgotten the VCR itself. As we all know, with the rapid technological developments, the VCRs were replaced by the DVD players. Today, the Blu-Ray gets its name as the best for watching videos mainly due to its HD clarity. Even the TV sets have undergone several changes in term of size, technology, features etc. All these have made TV viewing more enjoyable and interesting.
Television models
Having said that, there is one more worrying thing that has grown in tandem with the technological developments and it is nothing but the cost of the TV sets. As the price of every TV model has increased immensely the cost of home theater too is getting costlier than ever before. Coming to the technological aspects, there was a time when 1080i was considered as the best in clarity but today almost all the TV services offer HD channels with 1080p which is far ahead of the 1080i picture clarity. If you are looking for convenience, you have the plasma TV models that can hang on the wall without taking any space in your living room while giving you superb audio and video quality. And yeah! You also have the LCDs, LEDs and the 3-Ds; each of them having their own set of advantages.
Audio
These days, you get separate audio systems for a special home theatre effect. You can either buy the full audio set or buy only a set of digital speakers and a disc player. The good thing about the disc player is that it can support CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs in various formats and can also play MP3 player. If you want to save money on your home theatre then you can go for this set up as it functions in several ways and is cost efficient too. However, if you are too particular about the sound system then you may set up a big center speaker and a few rear speakers or a woofer. For the sound effects of a home theater system, the woofer functions much like another central speaker a thus adding up to the digital sound effect .
Computer for home theatre
There are oodles of operating systems in Windows that you can use to pep up your home theatre experience. You can use the audio and video services such as Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix to stream your videos. If you are looking for gaming applications, then you need to look for separate gaming systems that have exclusive gaming applications. For people who are not familiar with any of these, it is good to start off with the media applications of Windows Media Center 10 and you may gradually go for the higher levels.
Simply put, most of the home theatre applications are that ones you already have at home. Just add an array of digital speakers and use the online applications to get an amazing home theatre experience. Thus, a stellar TV set, digital speakers, computer software- is all enough for a complete superb home theatre experience. The enjoyment is going to be awesome whereas the cost involved for the above set up is just going to be minimal; and very much affordable.
