subject: A Fast Look At Entertainment Center Equipment [print this page] Entertainment center equipment is considerably more technologically advanced than it used to be. When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in the late 1800s, sound quality was always mono and low-fidelity. Content was recorded on easily-damaged media. For the home, visual media wouldn't come about until the late 1940s, with low-quality pictures and not a whole lot of choice in programming.
Now, in the twenty-first century, we have many different innovative choices for home entertainment systems. You can now buy high-definition, flat-screen television sets of a size will fit your room and budget. Pictures are close to life-like, and some of the newer television sets are available with 3D technology built-in.
There's content aplenty, via either satellite dish or cable. (Both offer hundreds of channels.) Some new televisions can connect to the Internet, allowing you to receive streaming shows and movies. For prerecorded content, thousands of different titles come on either Blu-Ray disk or DVD.
There's also a good selection of gear for your audio enjoyment. Most newer audio systems use solid-state, surround-sound amplifiers. Speakers could be traditional large, floor models, or they could be more compact units that can either hang on a wall or be set on a bookshelf. If you combine surround-sound audio gear with a late-model television, you can have a movie-going experience almost like that of going out to a regular cinema.
Even though these modern solid-state amplifiers sound pretty good, there are still some dedicated audiophiles who eschew solid-state in favor of tube-type technology. They believe that tubes give a nicer sound, with less distortion than would the transistors in a solid-state amp. Even for these folk, choices abound. Tube-type audio equipment is offered both as factory builds, and in do-it-yourself kits.
Whatever type of entertainment center equipment you may desire, choices abound. A quick search of the World Wide Web will turn up lots more information.
