High End Home Theater

High End Home Theater

When planning a high end home theatre system one should remember that high performance is just as important as the other major components of the system. The major home theater components usually start with a large screen of up to 56 inches, which may be a HDTV, a flat screen TV, a plasma ultra thin screen, a rear projection TV, or a big screen video projector. The home theater’s video source, broadcast TV, cable TV, Satellite TV, VHS tape or DVD disc, can be stored or recorded on VHS, DVR, DVD and DVD recorders, or on a hard drive recorder. Home theater speakers are available in two to six speaker systems and often include a separate powered subwoofer to hookup to the audio system. A six-channel decoder, sometimes built into the DVD player or receiver, is an important component of home theater systems. There are several surround sound formats for home theater including Dolby Pro-logic, Dolby digital 5.1 and DTS. Home theater systems typically will have a receiver / amplifier combination or may have a pre-amp with one or more amplifiers.

Cable connections for home theater sytems typically will include the following: Stereo interconnects for analog audio signals; consist of a pair of RCA connectors, which carry the left and right audio channels of a stereo signal. A digital connection carries the signal for Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks over cable from the DVD player to the receiver in one of two ways: as either a coaxial cable with an RCA connector, or as an optical Toslink connector which transmits the sound through a fiber optic cable. The video signal is transmitted via three types of cable: a coaxial digital or composite RCA connection which combines signals in a single cable, a 5-pin DIN S-Video cable which separates chrominance and luminance, and a component video cable, found on most DVD players, which have three separate coaxial RCA connectors on each end.

Speaker wiring can range from basic zip or lamp cord to sophisticated speaker cable formats, which optimize resistance and capacitance and can reduce system noise. Home theater speaker wiring can be terminated with many different types of connectors such as banana plugs, spades, pins or tinned ends. The subwoofer wiring in a home theater usually requires a single analog RCA connection. There may be several speaker type inputs on the subwoofer that will work when connected to the speaker outputs, but the RCA analog connection from the receiver would always be used because this is where the signal for the dedicated LFE low-frequency-effects channel for movie soundtracks is derived.



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High End Home Theater