What is a “Home Theater” and can I have one? - Yes, you can have a Home Theater. In fact, we make setting up your home theater extremely affordable. You likely already have at least one of the key elements, a TV set! So what else do you need and what exactly is our goal?
Our goal is to duplicate, in your own home, the surround sound envelopment and integration of picture, drama, and sound that you experience in a conventional movie theater, only on a smaller scale. The entertainment is for you, your friends, and family.
That may sound ambitious, but surprisingly, even a basic home theater system can deliver remarkably enhanced playback of DVD movies, concerts, rental videotapes, and even TV shows like "X-files" that are recorded and broadcast in Dolby Surround. You can enter this world with a Precision Home Theater system, installed, for well under $4,000 (You already have the TV, and if not, we can get that too).A basic home theater system consists of a pair of front left and right speakers on either side of the TV. A center-channel speaker is located on top (or beneath) the TV set to anchor the actor’s dialogue at the TV screen no matter where you sit. A smaller pair of surround speakers are located on either side of your couch. You will now be able to hear all the effects and ambient sound of a movie or TV show such as street noises, planes flying, jungle sounds, the noise of rain, thunder, crickets, distant explosions or rumbles of tanks, as well as, all the myriad of other sounds that make up a complicated movie soundtrack, including, of course, the movie score, the music, and rock songs that underscore the action on screen. Lastly, most home theater systems add a subwoofer, typically a square black box that produces ultra-deep bass sounds, such as rumbles, storms and deep musical bass.
If you've kept count, that's a total of six speakers, including the subwoofer, and it comprises "5.1-channel" sound (the .1 is the subwoofer bass channel). But, all the speakers needn't be large. Since the subwoofer carries much of the low bass energy, the other "satellite" speakers can be compact and visually unobtrusive, no larger than a hardcover book.
To this mix, you must add a 5.1 DTS and Dolby Digital Surround Sound Audio/Video receiver, which contains all the circuitry to "decode" the DVD or videotape movie soundtrack and effects. Finally, you need a DVD player. (You can use a Hi-Fi stereo VCR, but it will only deliver analog Dolby Surround, not 5.1-channel Dolby Digital.) That's it - a complete surround sound home theater system. Dim the lights, microwave the popcorn. Let the show begin!
