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Article #1: Home cinema overview

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Home cinema, also called home theatre, cinemas were called screening rooms at
seeks to reproduce cinema quality video the time and were outfitted with 16 mm or
and audio in the home. The video aspect even 35 mm projectors for showing
usually involves a large-screen and/or commercial films. These were found almost
high definition television or a exclusively in the homes of the very
projection system with movie screen to wealthy, especially those in the movie
project the image on. Quality audio industry.
reproduction is usually achieved with a Portable home cinemas improved over time
high fidelity surround sound system. with color film, Kodak Super 8 mm film
Technically, a home cinema could be as film cartridges, and monaural sound but
basic as a simple arrangement of a remained awkward and somewhat expensive.
television, VCR, DVD, and a set of The rise of home video in the late 1970s
speakers. It is therefore difficult to almost completely killed the consumer
specify exactly what distinguishes a market for 8 mm film cameras and
"home cinema" from a "television and projectors, as VCRs connected to ordinary
stereo". Most people in the consumer televisions provided a simpler and more
electronics industry would agree that a flexible substitute.
"home theater" is really the integration 1980s home cinema
of a relatively high-quality video source The development of multi-channel audio
with multi-channel electronics and systems and laserdisc in the 1980s
speakers. Even if households have the created a new paradigm for home cinema.
system set up for home cinema it is The first public demonstration of this
common only to use the speakers integration occurred in 1982 at the
integrated within the television rather Summer Consumer Electronics Show in
than to play the sound through the Chicago, Illinois. Peter Tribeman of NAD
surround sound system. This is because (USA) organized and presented a
surround sound loses its impact with demonstration made possible by the
material which is not recorded in a way collaborative effort of several companies
suitable for surround sound. Films, drama who contributed their technologies to
and sports tend to be optimised for demonstrate what a home cinema would
surround sound whereas news and daytime "look and sound" like.
TV provide no particular advantage. Over the course of three days, retailers,
1950s and 1960s home movies manufacturers, and members of the
A home theater with video projector consumer electronics press were exposed
mounted in a box on the ceiling.In the to the first "home like" experience of
1950s, home movies became popular in the combining a high quality video source
United States and elsewhere as Kodak 8 mm with multi-channel sound. That one
film (Pathé 9.5 mm in France) and demonstration is credited with being the
camera and projector equipment became impetus for developing what is now a
affordable. Projected with a small, multi-billion dollar business.
portable movie projector onto a portable 1990s home cinema
screen, often without sound, this system In the late 1990s, the development of
became the first practical home theater. DVD, 5-channel audio, and high-quality
They were generally used to show home video projectors that provide a cinema
movies of family travels and celebrations experience at a price that rivals a
but also doubled as a means of showing big-screen HDTVs sparked a new wave of
private stag films. Dedicated home home cinema interest.






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