1.
A large-screen display: Note that we do not say television.
More and more, the receiver aspect of a television is divorced from the display aspect, in the form of set-top boxes, external TV tuners, computers, and other source devices.
Appropriately, the display is being optimized for its main purpose - displaying the wide range of video output from a home theater system.
These displays can be huge.
We're talking greater than 120 inches diagonally, which is 10 feet for those of you who didn't do the math! 2.
A digital video source: At a minimum, this means a DVD player; and for most folks, it will also mean a TV source (such as digital cable or a digital satellite TV service).
We think DVD is a bottom-line must-have when you're building a home theater because that's the way most of us access the movies we want to watch.
For most people, the digital video source includes a source (or sources) of high-definition video, from TV broadcasts or the high-definition capable.
3.
A surround-sound capability: You find out about the details of surround sound in a few pages, but you need to have surround sound to take full advantage of all the audio power stored in your DVD content.
With surround sound, you truly start mimicking the theater experience.
If you're lacking any of these, you really don't have a home theater.
Without the display and surround sound, you lose the effect of the visual and audio experience, and without a digital video source, you just have a loud and big TV system.
You really need all three.
A large-screen display: Note that we do not say television.
More and more, the receiver aspect of a television is divorced from the display aspect, in the form of set-top boxes, external TV tuners, computers, and other source devices.
Appropriately, the display is being optimized for its main purpose - displaying the wide range of video output from a home theater system.
These displays can be huge.
We're talking greater than 120 inches diagonally, which is 10 feet for those of you who didn't do the math! 2.
A digital video source: At a minimum, this means a DVD player; and for most folks, it will also mean a TV source (such as digital cable or a digital satellite TV service).
We think DVD is a bottom-line must-have when you're building a home theater because that's the way most of us access the movies we want to watch.
For most people, the digital video source includes a source (or sources) of high-definition video, from TV broadcasts or the high-definition capable.
3.
A surround-sound capability: You find out about the details of surround sound in a few pages, but you need to have surround sound to take full advantage of all the audio power stored in your DVD content.
With surround sound, you truly start mimicking the theater experience.
If you're lacking any of these, you really don't have a home theater.
Without the display and surround sound, you lose the effect of the visual and audio experience, and without a digital video source, you just have a loud and big TV system.
You really need all three.
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