| As home entertainment equipment gets cheaper | | | | the unique power of the Internet to locate |
| and the quality gets better each year, more | | | | almost any DVD in existence; your choices are |
| and more people are starting to wonder about | | | | almost unlimited. |
| setting up their own home cinema system. So | | | | |
| what are the advantages and disadvantages of | | | | Yes, you have to make your own film food, but |
| a home cinema compared to just going to the | | | | at least its cheap, and you can have as much |
| real cinema? | | | | as you want. You also dont have to put up |
| | | | with other people eating and talking through |
| Well, lets start with price. Sure, going to | | | | the film but if you want to pause it and |
| the cinema can be expensive, especially if | | | | answer your phone then at home you can. |
| you buy popcorn and hotdogs every time, but | | | | |
| its nothing compared to the cost of buying a | | | | Really, its a trade-off, even once you take |
| home cinema system. For the price all the | | | | price out of the equation: youre never going |
| equipment you need, even though the price is | | | | to get a screen as big and a sound system as |
| going down, you could still go to the cinema | | | | good as the one in the cinema, but what you |
| every week for years and thats before you | | | | lose in quality you make up for in control. |
| consider the cost of buying or renting the | | | | Besides, many movie buffs say that although |
| films! | | | | the picture may be smaller, they believe that |
| | | | the overall quality of the film is higher |
| However, the fact that you can buy and rent | | | | when they configure their own equipment, |
| films is a big upside of having a good home | | | | instead of leaving it to the underpaid |
| entertainment system. When you go to the | | | | teenagers who staff the projectors in modern |
| cinema, your choices are limited to what | | | | cinemas. |
| theyve got with a home cinema, combined with | | | | |