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There’s nothing quite like watching a favourite or new movie on the big screen; the sheer magnitude of everything that is going on around you means the ensuing few hours are an uninterrupted emersion into whichever world you have chosen to plunge yourself.  Be it battles with dragons, Western shootouts or technology-filled forays into space – the cinema can take you there and back from the comfort of a cinema seat.

Alright, so cinema seats aren’t really that comfortable, especially compared to your sofa at home.  They also don’t have a pause remote balanced on their arm and a kitchen with a supply of tea-bags within easy reach; but watching a film at home isn’t quite the same is it?  Well, that would depend…

What if you had a sophisticated home cinema installation, with a 72” high-definition screen and speakers wired all around the room, surrounding you with perfect quality sound and audio?  Wouldn’t that make staying in for a private cinema experience from the comfort of your own bed or sofa a preferable alternative to dealing with angry teenagers in dirty aprons?  Combined with a stack of your favourite films on DVD or Blu-ray and a fridge next to the sofa and I doubt whether you’d ever leave the house to go to work, let alone the cinema!  Read more...

Anyone who has a love of television and especially movies loves the idea of having a home cinema system.  There is a great selection of systems on the market and because electrical appliances have come down in price so much in recent years there is something to suit every budget.  Once upon a time home cinema was something that you could only consider if you had a lot of money to spare.

The first signs of people using audio and visual technology in this way can be traced right back to the 1960s when home movies were getting to be so commonplace.  There are still many older people with reels of cine film stored away in boxes in a dusty corner of the attic, but is over the last thirty years that such equipment has slowly become so much more popular.

Home cinema really began to take hold in the 1980s with the advent of the Laserdisc.  Sound systems were also beginning to get a lot more high tech.  By the time the 90s came along it was state of the art to have a large rear projection television hooked up to a S-VHS video player or a Laserdisc.   By the time that DVD and Dolby Digital 5.1 channel sound arrived on the scene in the late 1990s things were really getting interesting.  Read more...

In America people have been creating home cinema systems in their homes for many years.  It is not only the rich and famous who do this; it is also done by a large number of ordinary families.  A great deal of them love to sit and watch movies together and it is not at all uncommon for them to have a room that is dedicated to this sole purpose.

Home cinema installation is not as complicated as you might think.  The biggest decision you are going to have to make is how much you are willing to spend on it.  If you enjoy watching films that much then it is probably worth spending that little bit more.  People who get lots of pleasure from movies are going to fully appreciate having a system that is of very high quality.

Once you have established what kind of budget you are working to it will become much clearer as to what items you can or cannot afford.  Plan out exactly what you are thinking about getting; you do not want to overspend on a state of the art television and find that you have not allowed yourself enough to buy a decent set of speakers…  When you are setting up a home cinema system you must remember that video and audio quality is of an equal importance.  Scrimping on one to have a better quality on the other is pointless and you will kick yourself for it afterwards.  Read more...

Audio visual solutions are no longer very expensive to purchase and install. Consumers are slowly being seduced by high-technology living, thanks in part to television shows dedicated to celebrity lifestyles.

There are now so many affordable audio visual solutions available for the home, such as home cinema, audio and video multi room systems, lighting control systems and even intelligent home automation systems that allow you to control all the technology in your home from a wireless touch-screen display.

Multi room allows you to create a flexible and discrete system designed around your home so that different rooms can independently or simultaneously access sources such as sky television, cd players, dvd players, mp3s stored on an ipod or a computer, radio tuners and even CCTV. The beauty of this integration means that you could pause a film in one room and continue to watch it in another, you could distribute the same music to all rooms during a party, you can access the pictures from your CCTV system from any TV in the house, or you can listen to a favourite album in the kitchen whilst different music plays in the bathroom. There are so many possibilities and all this without juggling remote controls as you can control your system either via a wall mounted keypad, a handheld remote, or both.

The home cinema projector market is definitely heating up with growing interest in high definition and larger displays. These days, especially with the onset of luxury city apartment living, the big challenge for manufacturers lies in combining cinematic performance with aesthetic looks.  Read more...