Home theater sound system is a very important component of your home theater. However how will you know that which is the best one for you? Two types of surround system are really popular. They are the DTS surround sound or the DTS and Dolby Digital. You can go for either of these depending on your needs. Most people consider DTS surround sound to be superior to Dolby. But ultimately it’s your own choice. So understand what these sound systems basically are and then make the final decision.

Dolby or DTS

Most of the movies in theaters are played in Dolby digital surround sound. Nowadays even DVD’s have this surround sound. It has a low bit rate but if functions effectively at lower levels. So bit rate should not be the only criteria while choosing the sound system. The data rate is higher in DTS and hence it is usually considered superior. DTS is not the usual sound format in DVD’s. Because of high data rate the encoding process requires less compression and thus you get better sound. The disadvantage with DTS is that it uses a lot of disc’s data capacity. Before you buy the sound system, you have to take many things into consideration; data rate is just one of them.

Compression ratios also decided as to which sound system is better. This gives a clear idea about the efficiency of a sound system. Usually, there is too much data in sound formats and thus it requires efficient compressing. The compressing should also be economical. So always look out for the compression ratio. It should be high. Your sound system may have a high data rate, but it won’t be effective if its compression ratio is low.

So which is the better sound format?

Everyone wants their sound system to have great sound quality. However the issue still remains as to which sound format is better? People use different points to debate over this. Some say that DTS is better because of its high data rate but what they do not realize is the fact that it doesn’t utilize data efficiently. The basic thing is that both DTS and Dolby give almost the same results. So you can buy either of them, depending on your requirements. The bottom line is that both are good in their own ways.

Basically, no one can say that DTS has a better sound quality than Dolby and vice versa. Both have their share of merits and demerits. A sound format may sound good in theaters but it may not sound too good at home. However there is no clear cut criterion to decide on this issue. You should decide as per your requirements. You can change the playback to decide on any changes in the sound format. Listen to each sound format carefully and only then make the final choice.

By: David Faulkner

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Best Home Theaters

An important defining element within a home theater is the surround sound. By watching movies with it, you will experience a totally different movie experience. This type of sound allows your home theater to imitate that of actual movie theaters. Most movie production studios take surround sound into account when designing sound elements which are compatible with most home systems. By using this audio, the special elements of movies such as a suspense or action movies, are greatly enhanced.

When it comes to home theaters, the sound is a very important component that compliments HD televisions.

There are two different sound formats used within most home theater packages. These two types are Digital Theater Systems and Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital and Dolby Laboratories are present in most home theaters. There are many sound enhancements in packages for home theaters, such as Digital Theater Systems. These products contain the DTS mark.

You can purchase many different sound options when buying Digital Theater Systems or Dolby Laboratories. Many of these options, when purchased as an upgrade, produce headaches. You should be aware of the different sound formats of these products before purchasing.

There are many DVDs which are marketed that are now integrated with the Dolby sound option. Others are marked with the DTS option. By buying the right sound options and utilizing the correct sound format, your home theater will have a movie theater sound to it.

For a sharper and clear sound, DTS audio is best. DTS uses a less amount of compression compared to Dolby’s encoding.

It’s important to remember that you will not hear DTS audio encoding on your normal television shows or on DVD sound enhancements.

Users of home theaters need to decide whether DTS support needs to be involved in their personal home theater system. This can be done by choosing the adequate speaker setup.

Home theatre speakers setups of 7.1, 6.1, and 5.1 are most commonly used. The .1 in surround sound refers to the channel for the subwoofer. The number following the .1 stands for how many speakers are in the system. Most channels for subwoofers are in a lower frequency sound and are perfect to boost bass sound effects.

In a 5.1 surround system, the 5 stands for the speakers and the 1 stand for the subwoofer. The speakers are set up as a left front, center and right speaker. The right, left or rear speakers contain the surround sound The 6.1 surround sound system consists of an added speaker in the rear. In the 7.1 system, there are 2 channels for the surround and the rear speakers complete the home theater setup.

The above discussed theater setups each complement the formats of surround sound. There are different sound channel mixes and splits which depend of a particular sound format such as DTS or Dolby.

The final decision on your home theater system speaker setup depends on the “upgrader”. This could either be DTS or Dolby compatibility.

By: Jill Hudson

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When choosing a projector for your home theater set-up, there are two main factors involved: price and picture quality. To strike the right balance between the two, it makes sense to know more about what features the projector has that give it the edge to stand out from others.

After narrowing down from a few dozen other projectors, by now you have probably nearly made your mind up. But first let us explore some of the features that makes the Panasonic PT-AX200U so special.

Main Features — Explained

Brightest projected image in its price range (2000 Lumens) The projector is so bright in fact it can be used comfortably in daylight conditions. 3 separate LCD’s : Red Green Blue combined together. By using 3 LCD’s, each of the primary colors are given their very own LCD which gives more room properly represent the depth and contrast. The three images are then merged inside the projector which gives the overall picture extended color depth and is like watching real film. 6000:1 contrast ratio With 3 LCD’s there are 3 times as much light blocked and 3 times as much light let through resulting in a larger amount of contrast. Compared to single LCD projectors the difference in quality makes it stand out from others. Shadows are brought forward and skin-tones are handled very well. Dynamic image adjustment Panasonic’s Light Harmonizer 2 technology will automatically adjust the gamma curve, iris dilation and lamp power to produce consistent vivid, smooth and ‘easy on the eye’ images in all varying light conditions. Gaming Modes Excellent picture performance with PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and PCs. Many modern popular games are naturally quite dark and some LCD TV screens and cheaper projectors fail to bring out the darkest details. The PT-AX200U has special processing modes that have been optimized for gaming and they have the ability to make the dimmest in-game scenes more viewable and playable. Two HDMI ports HDMI has become the connector of choice for modern high definition equipment due to its’ digitally perfect and lossless data transfer capabilities. Connecting everything you own to it is made easy with: a component input, an s-video input and a standard composite input. 1280 x 720 pixels High Definition 720p HD is achieved from either 720p or 1080p content. This scaled down to fit, while not quite as sharp as a full 1080p projector, 720p projectors are around half the price and give far better value for money. 4 to 41 foot range – 2:1 zoom lens with adjustable angles Best performance in its price range.

The Panasonic PT-AX200U projector is expected to be this years big seller and this is not surprising thanks to its’ out-performance of most, if not all projectors in its’ class. The brightness is stunning and adjusts to all room conditions, even custom presets can be stored for quick recall of your ideal settings. The pixels are invisible and the moving image is like watching a film.

Competitors projectors do cost less but do not get the brightness that is so fought after in a home theater projection setup. With changing light levels and demand for color depth and detail, this latest edition in the PT series of projectors makes possible an excellent theater and movie experience right at home that is always enjoyable.

For gaming set-ups where brightness, color detail and responsiveness is important, this projector delivers and excels in its versatile abilities, and for the price balances top performance.

By: Mitchel Marmalade

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The Sony HT-SS2300 Blu-ray Disc home theater system is a perfect home sound system for any home. It comes with great features that include an auto calibration function to produce hi-def digital visuals (which comes with a microphone), a blue ray disc player (of matching design), A/V receiver, a1080p HDMI Active Intelligence and many other features.

The Sony HT-SS2300 Blu-ray Disc home theater system has a slim receiver technology that produces the best sound possible, thanks to the new technology from Sony. A 5.1 A/V receiver with 1000 watts and digital media ports are also included in a system to boost its capabilities. The Portable Audio Enhancer improves its performance by enabling the integration of portable music into the home theater system and the provision of an enhanced audio quality.

The audio and video transmission on the Sony HT-SS2300 is done through its A/V receiver’s HDMI outlet. It also offers a 1080p mode and full bandwidth audio (LPCM) through just one cable. The Sony HT-SS2300 also sports a sleek design.

With a one-touch play, the Sony HT-SS2300 Blu-ray Disc home theater system can control a selected number of BRAVIA televisions with the BRAVIA Sync technology (via HDMI). This one-touch technology eliminates the need to make use of several remote controls. If you are looking for a home theater system that will give you the ‘wow’ factor, the HT-SS2300 will surpass all your expectations. Purchasing this system together with a Sony BRAVIA LCD television is one of the best decisions I have ever made.

By: Troy Richards

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Wireless Home Theater Systems have come a long way in the last few years. For a long time, they have struggled with sound quality issues that has almost made “Wireless” a dirty word in many audiophiles’ vocabularies. Thankfully, wireless technologies have improved to a point where the difference in sound quality is negligible to most ears. This has seen more and more manufacturers beginning to include wireless surround sound speakers as a part of their home-theater-in-a-box systems.

With a wireless home theater system, the amount of time required to set-up your

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Finding the best home theater speaker system

With all the makes and models of home theater speaker systems on the market today finding one that will suit your needs can be a real chore. But there is an easy way to get the system you want at the best possible price.

First we’ll take a look at home theater components, then I’ll show how to get rock bottom prices on a quality home theater system.

Home theater speaker system components

While home theater systems can be bought all in one package, buying individual components, including speakers, lets you get the best of every element.

Like any good audio system, the best home theater speaker systems will have midrange speakers, a set of tweeters, and a sub woofer. It’s the speakers that give you the full surround sound experience.

Home theater speaker system features

Home theater speaker systems come in wired and wireless designs. Compare them both for their sound quality and how easy or difficult they will be to install.

The best home theater speaker systems have good crossover design. While the speaker driver is important, good crossover can make any driver sound good, while bad crossover can make even a good driver sound bad.

Music playback is a good way to judge sound quality. Most DVDs do not produce great music signals, but if your speakers can handle a CD, then you know they are going to sound good playing a DVD.

Decide how many speakers you need. Many small speakers provide surround sound while large tower speakers are good for stereo effects. Small speakers also work better with a single sub woofer. The ideal home theater speaker system has five speakers for surround sound.

You may also prefer one surround sound system to another. The most popular surround sound systems today are Dolby Pro Logic, Virtual Dolby, and Q Surround.

How to compare home theater speaker system prices

Start by visiting your local electronics stores to get an idea of system capabilities, features, and prices. Make sure you listen to each system so you know how they sound in person. Then go online to get product reviews and price comparisons.

The comparison shopping website I use provides independent comparisons of products as well as unbiased reviews of home speaker systems by consumers like yourself. You also get price comparisons for various home theater systems, pictures of each system, plus detailed product information. They even rate the various retailers so you’ll know which ones are reputable.

Click on the links below to visit this online service and have fun comparison shopping.

By: Brian Stevens

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Do you have access to a large number of dvds or home movies that you would like to watch at your own time but would also like to have movie theater quality? Have you been wondering if you should buy a home theater projector but don’t know what to look for? This article will help you out by going over two of the best home theater projectors of 2009.

Optoma HD70

To start off, let’s talk about the Optoma HD70. At $685, the Optoma HD70 is relatively cheap compared to some of the other models. It has a lamp life of 3000 hours at 200 Watts, meaning that you could theoretically keep it on for 125 days straight without stopping before it dies – and when it does, the lamp is pretty easy to replace (but that’s another story). The image size can be anywhere from 33.55″ to 310″, which truly gives you a movie theater experience. It comes with the AC Power Cord, Composite Video Cable, Component Video Cable, S-Video Cable, Remote Control, Batteries for Remote, Lens Cap, User’s Manual, Quick Start Guide and Warranty Card all in a wonderfully ergonomical carrying case. While this sounds like a lot, the whole thing only weighs 5.6lbs.

Panasonic PT-AE900U

The Panasonic PT-AE900u will cost you a bit more but comes with many cool features. At $1,710, the Panasonic PT-AE900u will give you true high definition quality. It measures about 13″ by 4″ by 10.5″ and weighs a bit more than the Optoma HD70 at 7.9 pounds. The PT-AE900U presents a number of features for adjusting the picture quality of your movie including a new Dynamic Iris optical system that lengthens the range of the iris by 30% for a captivating 5500:1 contrast ratio. Dynamic Iris tracks the movement of the scene so that the video flows more thouroughly than your average dvd. The PT-AE900U is also outfitted with new Smooth Screen technology that effectively eliminates the “screen door effect” (visible spacing between pixels) and gives the projector a more high quality film-like presentation. In order to adapt to any home electronic device, the PT-AE900U supports a full range of input sources, including DVD and video players, PCs and game consoles.

Which of these top of the line projectors you choose is completely up to you as the year 2009 has presented the industry with high performance, smaller machines, and award winning capabilities. With your new projector, you will at last be at ease with watching your favorite movies right in the comfort of your own home. Whenever you bring your friends around, they will stare in awe and wonder at how well off you are and will envy your accomplishments. A home theater projector is the only thing standing between making you the talk of the town. So what are you waiting for? Get your projector today!

By: Kazi Niyaz

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The brain of a surround sound system is the receiver, which delivers surround sound systems, amplifiers and changing capabilities. The receiver is one of the important parts of a surround sound system because there are a lot of devices that connect to it, as well as all kinds of audio equipment like speakers, TV, VCR, CD players, DVD players, disco light and many more.

The receivers also tend to lose key audio parts that are no longer in use by the people which is “old” now like tape monitors and phono inputs. I would say Sony is one of the top selling brand names and here are other quality brand names; Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer, JVC, Onkyo, Yamaha, Denon and RCA. I don’t know if you have noticed that all the different receiver models are now digital. Most people are more than impressed with these receivers with a flawless combination and system that eliminates all most all of the feedback and noise that passes through your surround sound system.

Here are a few tips on finding the right receiver for your home entertainment system. If you buy almost any receiver today it must have DTS (Digital true Surround) and it should be able to handle surround sound systems, what that means is that the sound coming out of your surround sound system will sound more practical to you than the monophonic option.

With the multi channel outputs you get the occasion to widen your sound to different speakers in you entertainment room and set their volumes each at a different level. By doing that you get what you call DTS (Digital Tue Surround) were you can literally hear all the different sounds approaching you from all the different speakers, angles and directions.

As for monophonic sound you can only widen one indicator to all the different channels evenly. Before you buy a receiver you should do some research on them first by finding out if the receiver that you want to buy will be compatible with your surround sound system, what that means is that you should check if your DSTV, DVD, TV, CD player and mp3 player will be able to connect in the receiver and it should deliver sound, otherwise you will have a problem.

By making your receiver that you bought the main brain of your surround sound system you will be able to manage between all the different audio/video components that you have by only using only one remote for all the components and you only have to press one button to select them.

There are a very big variety of receivers to buy you should search online for one that you like and that it do what you want it to do. If you bought one of the top brand receivers you should be able use your new receiver for all your different components in your home and send signals any place in your house without interruptions.

These receivers are great they can use multiple components at the same time so you could be watching a DVD and your children can watch a cartoon on another TV in the house and there can play a song in one of the other rooms isn’t that great. Just a last piece of advice before purchasing your receiver make sure to ask about the receivers warranty just to be save in case something happens to the receiver.

By: Abel Konel

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BOSE V20 Home Theater System, just by reading this name, we imagine a experience in itself one which is associated with the name itself Bose,but does BOSE V20 Home Theater System live upto the Bose brand name,its upto you to decide.

Lets look at some of its technical aspects:

-You can customize the whole system according to your needs by adding hi-def sources.
-All in one solution,Indoor and outdoor.
-This system has video upscaling feature which adjusts this system to work at the highest resolution of your television set,which gives you the most clearest picture quality possible.
Not let us look at the Product Description:

This System creates a whole new experience that cannot be fulfilled by any other home theater system.It is a versatile system which is completely compatible with all your audio and video sources. This system consists of speaker array which are pretty compact. This system also frees you from the hassles of receivers which are complex and which come with dozens of remotes. This entire system is controlled by a single universal remote. The main advantage of this system is the ability to operate at the highest resolution at which your television set can operate. Another important feature of BOSE V20 Home Theater System is that it works great in an outdoor surrounding also.

So should you buy BOSE V20 Home Theater System?Well I have and am pretty happy with it. the next question which may arise you is where the hell do i get it from?Well I have included the links from where i got it a significant discount to the market rate(see below for my page details).You can also get it from many other sources. All in all I would say just go for this great BOSE V20 Home Theater System, its worth your money.

By: Ken Phoenix

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If you are a quality lover in audio and video and you want to enhance the quality of your wireless home theatre sound system than here is a good news for you! Pioneer presents you a new 7-channel A/V receiver designed for a multi-channel home theater system VSX-9040TXH 7.

What is Pioneer VSX-9040TXH 7?

Pioneer VSX-9040TXH 7 is a multi amplifier system which is used to enhance your theatre system sound quality. This is built to connect seamlessly for the pioneer products such as pioneer blu ray disc, your iphone and it supports the HDMI output. The power supply of 110 watts makes your home filled with surround sound. It gives new energy to your wireless home theatre system. It supports 7 channel working output. Working on Advanced Sound Retriever technology this amplifier system improves the quality of video sound tracks and makes them more robust in larger 5.1 channel systems.

Specifications:-

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