Home Theaters Give You an Escape From Reality
There’s nothing quite as satisfying as being able to immerse yourself in total darkness before seeing a crystal clear studio logo pop onto the big screen while a blast of 5.1 digital surround sound overtakes your senses and rumbles beneath you. You are experiencing the rush of watching a movie in a theater. But not just any theater, it’s your home theater.
That’s right. No one kicking the seat behind you, throwing candy at your head or talking on the phone during the best scenes; if they do you can kick them out yourself!
In many ways the home theater experience far surpasses the big screens of movie theater chains. Not only the annoyances listed previously, but there’s also the factors of cost and convenience.
With the price of a movie ticket running somewhere around $10, plus the cost of snacks, you could easily afford your own home theater just by skipping those evenings out for a year or two. Depending on how expensive your tastes are possibly even sooner than that. And there’s no need to wait for the 7 o’clock showing or stand in line; you can start, stop and schedule your movie showings whenever it’s convenient for you.
As true home theater enthusiasts we’d been designing our perfect escape since before we bought our house. We were just looking for the perfect house to fit our dreams. We found it a few years ago and proceeded to design our dream theater with gusto. We had most of our cinema equipment (just needing a few finishing touches like the 5.1 digital surround and more monster cables) so we dug into planning everything from seating arrangement and style, to carpet color and decor, to the large hinged wall with secret escape route (doesn’t every kid want one?)
By doing most of it ourselves we saved thousands of dollars but it also took about a year to “finish.” Well, it’s finished enough for us to enjoy, we are always working on the little touches here and there. Many people hire professionals to design and build their theater’s, which saves a lot of time (but not always money.)
After a long hard day at work, or an evening of frustrating parenting, the need to escape reality can become overwhelming. Being able to drop ourselves into complete darkness and seclusion and then immerse ourselves in a full senses banquet of sights and sounds from Hollywood we can quickly forget our own headaches and get wrapped up in the big screen. Those two hours are sanity savers without ever needing to leave the house (or get candy thrown at our heads).
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How To Choose The Right Home Theater Seating
Have you just bought a wonderful surround-sound home entertainment system but no decent home theater seating to sit on to watch the latest rented DVD? Do you always have to squeeze next to the cat and your daughter who likes to hog the old sofa like it was her bed whenever she watches anything on the screen?
Do you have to constantly pause the DVD to get your tomato juice from the kitchen benchtop because there is no place to put your drink without fear of spilling it on your white carpet? And does your back suffer terribly even only after 30 minutes of watching your favorite sitcom?
Home theater systems and home theater seating - the suburban preoccupation of the decade
If you’ve answered yes to any of the questions above, then despair no more. In the past five years or so, home theater seats have surpassed the comfort and support provided by the traditional movie theater seat.
Home theater seating can range from actual movie theater seats with beverage holders to more plush reclining club chairs and home theater loungers with footrests and built in wireless bass audio.
But how do you choose a good home theater seating? Below are some tips on how to choose a home theater seating that is just right for you.
Tips on how to choose the right home theater seating
1. The first thing to ask yourself is how many will you normally seat?
- If you prefer your home viewing to be strictly limited to yourself and your only daughter, then you will only need a seating for a small group of three.
- If you are planning to invite the whole neighborhood, then you may need to create one or more rows of grouped seating just like in a real theater. You can choose to have single seats carefully placed in your home entertainment or rumpus room or build a group of 2, 3 or 4 chairs.
2. The second and equally important question is will your current home entertainment or rumpus room have space enough for your home theater seating plan? It would be wise to allocate a room or part of a room that is spacious enough for your home entertainment area. Or if you have the budget and the inclination - you may want to add a special room for this specific purpose.
3. A very important priority in any home theater seating is comfort as you may need to be seated for an average of 90 to 120 minutes for a full length feature movie. Answering the following questions may help you to judge whether the home theater seating you are choosing will give you the level of comfort that you need.
- Does the footrest extend before the backrest reclines? This is important so that your body remains supported and your movie viewing and line of sight is kept intact.
- Are the armrests wide enough to rest your arms and provide the right balance?
- Does the seat and back offer both firmness and flexibility? Does the seat provide high density foam cushions to provide both comfort and back support?
- Does it provide full support from head to toe?
4. What style of home theater seating will fit your decor? After all, theater seats should be part of the home theater and should enhance its overall decor. Do you want an upholstered home theater seating or do you want to see some of the timber’s natural woodgrain enlivened by an oil finish?
Do you want supple, luxurious leather or the warm caress of velvet? What colors complement your decor - the girly-cute pink of custard; the regal low-maintenance ruby of pomegranate or the uptown classy brown of biscuit?
5. Was the home theater seating constucted using techniques that have been proven to result in stronger and more durable loungers and seats that can withstand everyday use, such as using kiln-dried hardwood base frames and cushions made of high density 2-lb foam.
6. Last but not least, how much do you want to spend for your home theater seating? Whatever your budget, there seems to be a home theater seating for everyone’s fancy:
- whether its the $4,700 three-seater Rodeo Leather Lounge with built in wireless bass shaker, recliner, footrest and wide armrest rolls for the ultimate in home theater experience,
- a vintage movie theater seat which had its previous home from a local movie house and which you’ve just bid successfully on ebay for $99,
- or somewhere in between.
Flor Buenaventura is a writer who has a great interest in furnishings for the home and garden. To see a fantastic collection of resources related to home theater seating, please visit her Home Theater Seating and Home Theater Furniture
Hdtv Home Theater Explained
How To Install a HDTV Home Theater in No Time
By the time you finish reading this article, another new home appliance would have made its debut in the market. I don’t mean to surprise you. I’m only trying to hint at the astounding number of comfy goods that are pushing each other to make way into your home. Sure, you have a hectic life as you try to juggle between your job and your family. You have no time for much indulgences maybe. You want to go to the movie theater but wonder that it might waste your precious time. For all your worries I can assure that you can have a wonderful time by bringing home your own fantastic home theater.
A home theater can give your home a much needed facelift. It is not very difficult to set it up either. First of all I would like to recommend to you the option of going in for a high definition television or HDTV. Take my word; HDTV is the future of television. So you don’t have to hesitate or think hard. The market is teeming with this new age TVs, all set to entertain you. As I said earlier the home theater installation is not a very hard task.
All you need is enough space to set up a large screen or you also can fit it on the wall because of its sleek build. Now let’s look at what you need to do. The first stage is planning which involves figuring out where to place the TV where to place speakers, taking note of power outlets and the wiring that needs to be done. It is advisable to draw a diagram for proper planning. Start by choosing the place where you need to place the TV. Then start laying out the wires to connect the DVD player along with the front and rear speakers. After this has been achieved, test the system to check if sound quality is up to your satisfaction. A little experimentation with position of the speakers obviously helps.
If you want to choose an HDTV home theater installation, there are a range of HDTVs in the market today and a lot of fabulous brands competing against each other. You can go for a Samsung, Pioneer, Westinghouse, LG or a Sharp HDTV. And there are a range of different types of HDTV. There are DLP screens, CRTs, Plasmas and LCDs. They all have their own exciting features but the race mostly narrows down between the LCDs and Plasmas, with the former running ahead in terms of sales. The LCD or liquid crystal display as a screen weighs comparatively much less than the plasma screen. It consequently also has a lower price and a very high picture resolution, a common feature in all the HDTVs. Some of the largest screen come under the plasma TVs. And if you want a large screen at a very low budget, DLPs are the way to go. DLPs also have a very a sharp resolution because of its innumerable mirrors on the screen.
A home theater installation means that you have a mammoth screen indoors. By choosing HDTVs you can lend class to your home. The HDTV home theater installation gives you picture resolution of the highest quality, with its high pixel number. Crisp pictures with rich colors, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, a 16:9 image aspect ratio and a flat wide screen matches the environment of a booming theater. You can even split the huge screen any watch many programs at the same time. So go ahead and install a home theater and have a great time viewing real images and real entertainment.
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