While many times lighting is overlooked till the last minute, hopefully, this guide will inspire some ideas you had not thought about and help you add some great finishing touches to your dream home theater room.
Any home theater with more than one row of seating is going to need a riser so the heads of the people on the front row are not blocking the view for the seats behind them. In this article, we help you better understand how to optimize the riser layout of your dream home theater room.
Recent changes in technology on both the video and audio front have aligned to make now the best time in the last two decades to invest in a new home theater. From 4K video to the immersive widescreen experience, to Dolby Atmos surround sound, and technology to improve your room’s acoustics, we have never seen a convergence like this before.
If you are in the market for a new home theater system or improving part (or all) of the one you already own, this guide is for you. We have brought together and organized all of our home theater articles to help you understand the available options and how they might work or not work in your particular situation.
Do you remember the old movie theater experience before stadium seating? Think back to that person with the big hat or huge shoulders sitting right in front of you blocking your view of the screen. You had to spend the whole movie leaned over to one side to see the screen. A well-designed home theater requires detailed planning of sightlines, viewing angles, screen size, furniture placement.