| As home entertainment equipment gets cheaper and | | | | locate almost any DVD in existence; your choices are |
| the quality gets better each year, more and more | | | | almost unlimited. |
| people are starting to wonder about setting up their | | | | Yes, you have to make your own film food, but at |
| own home cinema system. So what are the | | | | least it's cheap, and you can have as much as you |
| advantages and disadvantages of a home cinema | | | | want. You also don't have to put up with other people |
| compared to just going to the real cinema? | | | | eating and talking through the film – but if you want |
| Well, let's start with price. Sure, going to the cinema | | | | to pause it and answer your phone then at home you |
| can be expensive, especially if you buy popcorn and | | | | can. |
| hotdogs every time, but it's nothing compared to the | | | | Really, it's a trade-off, even once you take price out of |
| cost of buying a home cinema system. For the price all | | | | the equation: you're never going to get a screen as big |
| the equipment you need, even though the price is going | | | | and a sound system as good as the one in the |
| down, you could still go to the cinema every week for | | | | cinema, but what you lose in quality you make up for in |
| years – and that's before you consider the cost of | | | | control. Besides, many movie buffs say that although |
| buying or renting the films! | | | | the picture may be smaller, they believe that the |
| However, the fact that you can buy and rent films is a | | | | overall quality of the film is higher when they configure |
| big upside of having a good home entertainment | | | | their own equipment, instead of leaving it to the |
| system. When you go to the cinema, your choices are | | | | underpaid teenagers who staff the projectors in |
| limited to what they've got – with a home cinema, | | | | modern cinemas. |
| combined with the unique power of the Internet to | | | | |