Friday, 22 July 2016

6 Stunning Home Theater Trends

What’s better than watching your favorite movies of all time in your home theater? Nothing! At home, you can treat yourself with your preferred food choices and you can watch all the movies you want in your pajamas! Back in the day, a trip to the movies was a fancy event that people dressed up to attend. Now, however, no one wants to wear a tie to see the latest Avengers movie! Even though movie theaters have dramatically changed towards the home-like scenery for their customers to experience, it’s still not the same as if you were watching a movie at home.

When it comes to comfort, you can’t beat watching a movie in your own home, your own way. Whether you are a dedicated do-it-yourselfer or you call in companies like Mimi’s Audio & Video for support, you can make your home theater dreams come true.

If you’re interested in investing a home theater for you and the whole family to enjoy, here are six stunning trends you should consider when thinking of decoration ideas.

1. Multiple Screens

Including multiple screens can mean two or more flat-panel TVs on the same wall. You can have a flat-panel TV for casual purposes and by having multiple screens you can use them for everyday viewing that gets covered by a larger front-projection screen for movies and major events. Screens on various walls in a room appear to be a popular arrangement that function as party or entertainment spaces. Why have so many screens? Nowadays, our video choices are so vast that people often don’t want to be restricted to just one option in a room.

2. Hybrid Space

Whether you have a home theater, media room, game room, it doesn’t matter much what you call it as long as it includes a sound system and a display device. A popular trend rising in the home theater market is the hybrid approach of incorporating more traditional furniture such as a sofa and chaise lounge seating. Why do others move to this change? Simple, people want home theater multipurpose rooms. However, multipurpose media rooms need access to a wide variety of content such streaming media devices, which are perfect for providing content. Instead of seeing Blu-ray players or high-end movie servers, there are a lot of Apple TVs and Roku players going into these family media rooms.

3. Social Networking

In today’s technological world, smartphones and tablets are not only being used to change channels and control the volume of our home theaters, they’re acting as secondary viewing screens. It’s easy to say that social media is the reason smartphone and tablet markets have become successful. Not to mention, sports likely accounts for much of the live tweeting in the home theater. Smart TVs from Panasonic include social networking features such as Facebook and Twitter. Nothing would be more interesting to see than having your own social posts being displayed on your Smart TV. Seeing anything on a bigger screen is always going to be seen as more intriguing than compared to looking at something on the size of your mobile screen device. 

4. Networking Media

Many underestimate about the quality of their home network when it comes to planning their home theater, instead they should think about where their content is coming from. There is at least 25 percent of homes that have an internet-connected Blu-ray player in home theaters. If you add dedicated streaming devices, smart TVs and networked gaming consoles, it’s safe to say that the internet is the most popular source for most people’s entertainment. Streaming content may not provide high-quality such as Blu-ray players or CDs, but it’s bound to improve. You see it yourself in other homes that networks are getting pushed to their limits, in versatility and reach. It’s obvious that having a home network is crucial to have if you want to own a quality home theater. Wireless is not good enough to stream video, therefore people rather install networked sources such as Apple TVs.

5. Floorstanding, Soundbar Speakers

People are starting a trend of using floorstanding and bookshelf speakers rather than in-wall speakers. Even though in-wall speakers hide all of the equipment, floorstanding and surface-mounted on-wall speakers produce the clearest audio. Some may have an opinion about soundbars being known for looks rather than sound, but today’s best soundbars approach the quality of full-range speakers and can be easily integrated into the home. Bluetooth, wireless subwoofers, built-in audio processing and one-remote operation are becoming attractive systems for people looking to upgrade to instead of sticking with their poor-sounding TV speakers. Improving your quality of sound can help you and the rest of the family enjoy your favorite movies and shows.

6. Value


It may seem odd to call this a trend, but the price of home theater products has dropped significantly while features and performance continue to improve. Companies that produce projectors such as Epson, Mitsubishi and JVC offer very good 3D projectors at half the cost of comparable projectors years ago. If you want to speak about high-end, companies such as DPI and SIM2 offer technologies that eliminate the need for additional expenses of anamorphic lenses for viewing superwide CinemaScope movie formats. Imagine having a front-projection theater system with little or no worries about the cost of such installation.   

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