I married a man who inherited his father’s love for home theater. So obviously when we moved in to our own house a home theater is in order. I am lucky I have at my disposal a home theater geek to explain to me what a home theater is, my husband. He is also a certified DIYer so another bonus, savings on installation cost.
We have a 22-square meter room which we converted into our very own custom home theater. The room is not that big so a gigantic screen and humongous speakers are a definite no-no. Actually the number one consideration should be the budget, and usually the smaller the room the smaller the budget you will burn. Our strategy is to design a home theater for the 22 square meter room on a relatively low budget and purchase the equipment one by one.
Warning, buying home theater equipment is a very confusing activity. Be wary of sales people, who will bombard you with terms like “FullHD”, “HD capable”, “Blu-Ray”, “1080p”, “720p”, “THX”, etc. Hopefully my experience will help to put some sanity to all this home theater mumbo jumbo.
First on the agenda is the display. We had a great deal on this one, for Php 27,000 we have a 720p HD capable 42″ Plasma TV. So why not the Full HD TV, apparently the human eye cannot distinguish the difference between Full HD and HD capable TVs for 42″ below screen unless you have super vision.
And its 27K, it’s a steal.
Next in the agenda are the speakers, amplifier and receiver. This is the tricky part, usually for custom installation these are purchased separately. In our case due to space and budget limitation we opted for “Home Theater in a Box” or HTIB are basically a packaged home theater system which offers out of the box home cinema experience. The speakers, amplifier and receiver are bundled into a single package. It also removes the connection guesswork that usually comes with home theater. HTIB uses a single wire called HDMI cable to connect the TVs, DVDs, etc. For our HTIB we chose 6 speakers, 5.1 surround sound and 3 input system. This set us back at around Php 15,000.
The last thing that we bought is a PlayStation 3 or PS3. Why the PS3? It serves us as the DVD player, BluRay player, Music Player and most of all it is also a gaming console making it our main source of family home entertainment. This home theater of ours is easy to set up, just plugged it all in to the HTIB via the HDMI cable, put in the latest DVD and just like that we have a cinema on our very own home.
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MONSTER CABLE!!!!!!!
Why buy a drink when you can bring your own? xD
@Pallepop909 There’s not going to be much difference in audio quality since it’s used for watching movies, and movies have crap audio anyway compared to a real stereo-cd setup. All in all, cables matter is you’re going to use it for stereo use.
“1969 fake moon landings” HAHAHAAAA I AGREE!!!!!!!
“1969 fake moon landings”… Subtle.
@Tarrdica there is no diffrence in audio or image quality of cables .. you arent gettin more because it says Gold plated Hdmi cable on the box and costs 500 bucks . trust me . but enyone can gett a cheap cable that has a lose cable or whatever . not that it doesent happen with the expensive ones .. its all made at the same place in china enyway
all this to promote a $10 a month web site subscription? Faked moon landing?
Might want to update the video (just in case you didn’t know, HDDVD is dead)
@hulkhatepunybanner “quiet PC”
The biggest mistake with building a home theater is BUILDING a HOME THEATER. Setting off a room just to watch movies or television is a waste of money. That’s what a living room or family room is for. Folks get this: a HDTV with Cat5 and SPDIF, a 7.1 audio system with SPDIF, a quite PC with TV tuners, Windows Media Center 7, and a learning remote to rule them all. That’s it. And you don’t need a dedicated room just to use it.
go buy a hdmi cable at a bargain home improvement store… and tell me quality of the cable is not important… dumbass
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@hawaiijim quality!
Besides if everyone did like u do there wouldent be any movies to stream now would it?
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@montigekyou Yes it is dead. Why buy Blu-ray disks when you can stream movies over the internet?
hehe “faked moon landings”….nice
@Imacorama im sorry but fuck circuit shitty! i used to work for that shithole and i for one is extremely happy that it is closed!!
@1010292938384747 ha ha, props to you
Its still a usefull video i like
Another mistake he forget to mention? Not turning his face away from the microphone so we won’t hear him taking a breath between every sentence.
“computers which are more complex than the ones used in the 1969 fake moon landings” bias much?
circut city is gonee..
CIRCUIT CITY RIP
If you’re setting up your home theater on a budget, I’d recommend building your home theater one component at a time. And by component, I mean the major components. Start off with your game systems or disk player, as this isn’t likely to change for a while. A speaker set and TV next, and finally a receiver.
Personally, I did mine a bit ass backwards. I had a sony bravia TV, and slowly added components to it over time.
@hawaiijim blu ray isnt dead idiot!
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