Home Theater's 3 UGLY Secrets!

Secret #1: WHAT YOU BUY Now Wish BE OBSOLETE TOMORROW, IF IT ISN'T ALREADY.

What you should do just about it:

Don't sweat it. Simply see what you can before you buy to educate yourself so you don't do a terrible mistake. If you shop wisely, you can get a tremendous leap over what you have come to cognize as television. The good news is the better stuff coming down the pipe is sound prices down on the stuff out now.

Plus, user surveys SCREAM to the natural philosophy companies that folk WANT these new, slim, high solution House Theater setups. There are billions of dollars to be made. Those surveys snapped the head of every exec in the biz. They double-geared up to do more. "Make more" equals "economies of scale" equals "make Much money," even as at lower cost points! The 1st one cost a bazillion dollars: research, tooling up, marketing. Then, with volume, the cost per unit plummets. The guys who want to have really latest get to pay the most. Why be that person?

If you’ve already purchased a particular technology – Plasma, DLP, LCD, front or rear projector, whatever, ENJOY it. It IS important to realize that wide screen aspect quantitative relation makes not equal high-definition TV, though. Several think if the image is wide, they’re there. That power be FAR from there. I hate to say this because I’m a guy and guys hate this – you power want to see the instructions.

Secret #2. And this is really, actually big: YOU CAN'T TELL WHAT THE Image LOOKS LIKE FROM WHAT YOU SEE IN THE STORE.

What you should do just about it:

What you are doing now. Research. The hard part is cutting through the opinions of weenies who want to see a feather clearly, processing in the wind at 50 yards. I'll help you there. See on.

There are three reasons why House Theater Ugly Private secret #2 is true.

1- The sets aren't adjusted right. They are turned way up to dazzle you. The dazzle wish bother you once you get home. Worse, it drives the set to what you'd call distortion. The better image happens once the image is turned down in brightness, sharpness, contrast, and some else has been goosed. Why do they let this happen? It's like a conspiracy that everyone is in on - except you. Because once they are all lined up, 40 sets in a row, the manufacturers cognize you power think theirs is several and better. But they ALL do it, so it's a wipe. And if a store is a little bit shady, with several hi-def sets to come at a higher profit margin, well, now, those power have been "optimized" to look better than the others.

Yes, most of the hi-def sets CAN be adjusted aright for you in your home. Mayhap by you.

Did I mention that Bubba the shopper-doofus was there, just before you browsed in, that he found the remote control and screwed up all the settings anyway?

So, you can't trust what you see in most stores. But wait, there's more.

2- Many a of the sets are being fed video poorly. A distribution amp or humungous splitter shares the image among the displays. That hurts the picture. A store power have 40 sets on one distribution, but the ones they actually want to come on a purer source, showing a better picture. You'll ne'er know.

3- What you see may or may not be high definition or even as good quality. Simply as bad, it power be super fidelity you won't likely ever see again. Because, what you watch at house power not be broadcast or cablecast with a good picture. So, you can see misaligned sets fed bad images that bear little alikeness to thing you'd see at home. Available to drop several THOUSAND on that? Didn't think so. But tens of thousands of folk do. Probably Wish this weekend. Eager authorised salespeople wish confide that THIS unit is the superior one. No hidden agenda there, do you think, huh?!

Secret #3. THERE'S Thing WRONG WITH EVERYTHING.

What you should do just about it:

Relax. Don't obsess. It's more a matter of things being done several route by several designers. For example, on this set, the colors are spot on, but the solution is a little off. On that set over there, the solution is incredible, but the red... You are still going to love the setup you buy - and remember - you just power have it for 10 years or MORE! You'll look at it more than you look at your wife, husband or kids. I'm talking face time. Relax. We'll get you through this.

A personal note to THE OBSESSIVES:

If you haven't already left this article, I want you to think just about the fact that there are millions of screen dots to go wrong. Not that they will, but the 317th one from the left and 119th from the bottom IS a little shaky, don't you think? Time to take a deep breath. One, two, three. Exhale. Even as tho' there's thing wrong with everything, if you embrace that thought and LET IT GO you'll be able to enjoy the - uh - big picture. The state of the House Theater art - even as if it IS yesterday's art, is really very nice.

Relax.

Why a House Theater? And what's it MEAN anyway? Nice questions. A House Theater is just the natural; evolution of the TV experience. Now that we can, we do. It's how it goes. Basically, you get a shorter, wider image (more like a flick in a... theater) and the image is more clearer than the TV you sat too close to as a kid – remember Mom yelling? And you can have better sound too. It can be all about you, or just in the front. You choose. You can have a box that plays the deep notes - fun things like car crashes, earthquakes, whale farts, cannons. You get to experience them like ne'er before. It's not essential, but it's there if you want it.

A House Theater is just like going to the movies. Except the screen isn't that big, but you can get a good seat. You don't have to endure advertisements in the ‘pre-show entertainment’ if you don't want to. You can go to the bathroom and touch the door handle on the way out. No paying $5.75 for a bag of stale popcorn. No popcorn cloth zomboid teenagers. No lines. No sticky floors (unless that's the way you live, not that there's thing wrong with that.)

There. Now you cognize the top 3 Ugly House Theater secrets.

But, it isn’t quite that simple. At http://www.GreatHomeTheater.com/ there are 9 more private secrets revealed. I promise you won’t get neurotic or your hands dirty, and I won’t talk you out of what can be a tremendous and extremely pleasant leap forward in house entertainment.

About The Author

Bob Wood, for over 30 years, served in front of, and behind the microphone, at popular radio stations across the United States and Canada. Throughout that journey he developed a passion for great sound and was an early parent of many a of the video toys and tools that have evolved into today's state of the art.

Bob as well became best-known as a voice-actor at that time, leading him to virtually hundreds of recording studios wherever once more he would-be activity with top equipment. In the mid 80s, he was able to examine and demo the early high definition broadcast quality instrumentation out of Japan.

Copyright 2005, Bob Wood

This article was denote on Oct 02, 2005