home theater

A home theater or home theatre is a theater built in a home, designed to mimic (or exceed) commercial theater performance and feeling, more commonly known as a home cinema. Today, home cinema implies a real "cinema experience" at a private home.
Home cinema, commonly referred to as home theater or home theatre, are home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce movie theater video and audio feeling in a private home.
Backyard theater, home theater in the backyard. Depending on the space available, it may simply be a temporary version with foldable screen, a projector and couple of speakers, or a permanent fixture with huge screens and dedicated audio set up poolside. Due to the outdoor nature, it is quite popular with BBQ parties and pool parties.
Home theater in a box, HTIB is a modestly-priced integrated home theater package which "bundles" together a combination of DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc player and multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surround sound decoder, a radio tuner, and other features), speaker wires, connection cables, a remote control, a set of five or more surround sound speakers (or more rarely, just left and right speakers) and a low-frequency subwoofer.
AV receiver, often referred to as home theater systems or home entertainment system.
Front video projector and projector screen, often referred to as a home theatre or Home cinema.
Home theater PC, HTPC or media PC is a convergence device that combines the functions of a personal computer and a media center software which feature video and music playback.
Media center, refers either to a dedicated computer appliance (like a Home theater PC) or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media (music, movies, photos etc.), and it usually has a 10-foot user interface design to be used in living-room TV with a remote control.
Switchable projection window, is a new product and design having multifunctions for a room, and may turn a window into TV screen while remaining full function of a window.

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    Replacement/upgrade

    Would like to upgrade my HT-R494 but use the same speakers. Recommendations please?
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    AVForums Home AV Podcast - Is Home Theater DEAD in 2024?

    This week we ask if home theatre/home cinema is still a popular addition to homes or are people consuming music, movies, sports and TV in different ways in their living spaces. Is Home Cinema or Home Theater as we used to know it, now dead? Presented by Phil Hinton with Dr. Julian Scott...
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    Dumb Question Time, or maybe not so dumb

    I am looking at putting several TV's in the house we just finished building. These TVs will be used for daily watching, we have a home theater room using a JVC NZ7. we have been looking at Sony as the dealer we are using handles SONY TV exclusively. The models under consideration are Cony Bravia...
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    Question Which 5.1 home theater system will be better Focal/Tannoy/Paradigm

    Hello, I would like to ask you for advice which set of 5.1 speakers will sound best and clearest, assuming that I watch movies and play games 95% of the time, and 5% for music. The room has dimensions of 3.5 m by 3.5 m, I sit about 1.5-2 m from the TV in the middle of the room. I am deciding on...
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    Question Can a home theater processor work in a cinema theater?

    Hi guys! I have a Denon AVR X-4400H, wich has 7.1.4 RCA unbalanced pre-outs, and I would like to connect them to XLR balanced amplifiers to power a full 200 seats cinema theater. So, two questions here: -Do you think it is a bad idea to connecT unbalanced RCA outputs to balanced XLR inputs? I...
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    Question Can I do much better for a ~£3000 home theater setup?

    Hi all, About to embark on buying my first proper HT setup to go along with my 55" OLED, and Nvidia Shield. Can I do much better than the below for ~£3000? Item Model Price Receiver Denon X3700 / X3800 / X4700 ~£650 used L&R Speakers + Stands Kef R3 ~£800 used Center Kef R2C (tempted...
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    Evolution of a home cinema......from Living room to dedicated theatre

    I wanted to start a build thread as reading through the build threads on this forum helped me greatly in deciding the way I wanted to go with my own home cinema project, and also helped with some of the design aspects ,and if I can help someone else in their journey, then that’s a bonus. I have...
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    Question Best projector for 5000/6000

    Hi, I'm designing my dedicated home theater and I'm trying to narrow down my choices when it comes to a 4k projector. The screen will be a fixed frame 140" woven AT screen 1.1 gain. I wanted to keep my budget (just for the projector) around 5000eur. The Sony 5000es seems like one of the...
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    Room treayment behind the MLP on the couch?

    Morning, Pls see foto attached. I have an open living room (the room opens up from where I took the foto) and have a square set up for my home theather. The front left and right are moved out of the alcove when we watch movies so they can breathe. The front right early reflections are...
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    Question Subwoofer help with stereo and Av receiver

    I’m about to pick up a BK XLS 400 Can I wire this is up at same time to my AV receiver and audiolab 6000 a Thanks Carl
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    Speaker Purchase/Placement Recommendations for Home Theater

    I've been obsessed with my theater for almost 3 weeks, after building it two years ago and wanting to make some small updates, and have non stop been thinking about it. But I can't seem to come up with a perfect audio solution given that my ceilings are VERY low (basement, under HVAC partially)...
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    motorized masking?

    Hi guys, I'm building a home theater and I'll be using probably a 130" 16:9 AT fixed frame screen. I chose the 16:9 because all the other formats can be cropped from this one while keeping viewing angle the same (well, with the obvious exception of 4:3). The thing is... with streaming...
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    Question AT 140" screen Seymour vs XY

    Hi, I'm building a Home Theater and I need a 140" AT screen for 4K projection. I've narrowed my choices down to Seymour AV (unsure between UF and XD screens) and XY Soundmax 4K. The XY is much cheaper and pretty good reviews as well. I wanted to know some of your thoughts about both of these...
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    Need help selecting the floor standers for a 5.2.4 setup

    Need help selecting the floor standers for a 5.2.4 setup. Wharfedale Diamond 12.4 Q Acoustics 5040 Elac debut F6.2 Monitor audio Bronze 500. Avr -Denon X3800H Subs- both SVS sb100 pro/ pb1000 pro Room size -14.5 ft * 24 ft dedicated 14.5 * 14 for HT with 10 ft open space behind sitting...
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    130" Screen with Sony WX7000ES

    I have a Sony WX7000ES in my MBR with 100" screen and we love it. I have another one to use in Living Room/Theater. I have room for up to 130" Screen. Need opinions on if that large of a picture will look good and clear enough using this projector.
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    Question Focal Theva N3-D & Denon AVC-X4800H

    Hi all, I'm looking to get new setup for movies and music. Did some research and come up with those two things. Would 4800H be good enough to get those focal working? What do you specialists think? Thanks in advance for any help!
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    Question Which LCR front stage?

    Hi guys, I'm building a dedicated home theater (19' by 13') with a 130" AT screen. I'm considering the XTZ Cinema M6 as my mains (LCR) but I must say I am very unfamiliar with monitor/reference type speakers. Most of my life I've always been used to Hi-Fi speakers which tend to "colour" the...
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    Recommendations for completing my home theater microcinema?

    Recommendations for completing my home theater microcinema I'm putting together a little cinema and music listening setup in our living room and am trying to dabble in surround sound for the first time. From reading around and looking at our room, I'm thinking of dong a 5.1.2 setup. HAVE...
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    Gaming/Dolby on a PC with old reciever

    Hi I got a second hand home theater for a low price. I'm struggling to get surround sound. Setup: PC NUC 11 Enthusiast connected to TV via HDMI (GPU Intel Arc A770) TV Samsung QLED TV QE65Q80 connected to the AVR with a optical cable AVR Marantz SR7500 If I play a movie via the Netflix app...
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