Hi
Anyone who has a homecinema - good quality but less price??
The price for my homecinema (Projector,5.1system,Xbox360 &PS3) was about
2500$ -
what gear do you use??
I would never spend that much money on the equipment; I'm not too materialistic. You can get a decent television for about $150. You can also get a DVD player for about $40. I'd much rather go cheap if I was going to invest in that type of stuff. It's honestly not worth it to me. I rarely watch movies and I don't play very many video games. I also can't tell the difference between a flat screen and non-flat screen, or an HD television and a regular one. They're all the same to me.
| Afaceinthematrix wrote: |
| I would never spend that much money on the equipment; I'm not too materialistic. You can get a decent television for about $150. You can also get a DVD player for about $40. I'd much rather go cheap if I was going to invest in that type of stuff. It's honestly not worth it to me. I rarely watch movies and I don't play very many video games. I also can't tell the difference between a flat screen and non-flat screen, or an HD television and a regular one. They're all the same to me. |
Haha! So you are living in the 90's and are blind! If you honestly don't know the difference between the old fashioned boxy CRT televisions and the thin widescreen HD televisions, then ther is something wrong, whether you mean picture quality or the actual physical TV.
Bananamango wasn't talking about low-end, run-of-the-mill, outdated junk like you mentioned. You don't create a home theatre with a cheap CRT and a no-name DVD player. He means the deal deal. Big screen, surround sound...something people who enjoy watching movies and sports appreciates.
Personally, I am still using old garbage, like Afaceinthematrix mentioned, excpt my DVD player is part of a home theatre system. When I do build a nice home theatre, I will definately be spending a few thousand dollars. The bigger the screen I can get, the better. HD Surround Sound and an HD player. If I can manage it, I'll get some cheap couches and cut the springs out of the seating and put some subwoofers in there instead so you not only hear the sound, but you FEEL it 
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| Afaceinthematrix wrote: | | I would never spend that much money on the equipment; I'm not too materialistic. You can get a decent television for about $150. You can also get a DVD player for about $40. I'd much rather go cheap if I was going to invest in that type of stuff. It's honestly not worth it to me. I rarely watch movies and I don't play very many video games. I also can't tell the difference between a flat screen and non-flat screen, or an HD television and a regular one. They're all the same to me. |
Haha! So you are living in the 90's [url]and[/url] are blind! If you honestly don't know the difference between the old fashioned boxy CRT televisions and the thin widescreen HD televisions, then ther is something wrong, whether you mean picture quality or the actual physical TV.
Bananamango wasn't talking about low-end, run-of-the-mill, outdated junk like you mentioned. You don't create a home theatre with a cheap CRT and a no-name DVD player. He means the deal deal. Big screen, surround sound...something people who enjoy watching movies and sports appreciates.
Personally, I am still using old garbage, like Afaceinthematrix mentioned, excpt my DVD player is part of a home theatre system. When I do build a nice home theatre, I will definately be spending a few thousand dollars. The bigger the screen I can get, the better. HD Surround Sound and an HD player. If I can manage it, I'll get some cheap couches and cut the springs out of the seating and put some subwoofers in there instead so you not only hear the sound, but you FEEL it :D |
Well I guess it depends on what you value. I don't spend that much time in front of the television, so maybe I haven't given HD enough of a chance. But I honestly can't tell the difference. I have a "box television." It isn't fuzzy. I can see the picture just fine. Also, for a DVD player, what is better about an expensive one? Both do what they're meant to do, and that's play DVDs.I recently spent about $100 on a new 5.1 channel DVD player and 5.1 channel surround sound system. It sounds fan-freakin-tastic! Get a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" on DVD and you'll know what I mean.
Thr trouble is these days theres to many peeps out there who rather like the sound of their own mobile phones, to which are no better than than a £1 transistor radio, and if you say to people things like DTS and 5.1 they aint got a clue a to what it is. Which is a shame really because a good home cinema set up rightly will even put the cinema's to shame with what they have got. Watch an horror film with the sound coming out of the TV and you wont bat an eylash. If you watch it in 5.1 through your HOme Cinema you will jump out of your seat, simply because it's the sound in an horror film that makes you jump and nothing more, and to be sitting in your seat with surround speakers behind you, the sound will raise to increasing volumes at points and hit you on the back of the head. Thus putting a lot better experience and pleasurable way of watching a movie. Music is also awesome encoded in DTS or 5.1 e.t.c. If you listen to Queens album night of the opera on the DVD Audio disc they released it simply blows you away and as bought the band entirely back to life. The vinyl album and CD of it, you may as well chuck in the bin. Because that is entirely crap in comparison.
I myself have a 7.1 set up wich can convert normal 2 channel stereo into 7.1, its totally amazing, and makes stereo just as redundant as mono because of the way it can seperate the sound of the original source through 7 channels rather than 2. Giving the listener a better projection of the sound which is far more clearer and detailed. Most peeps out there by a system with 5.1 and simply box all the speakers together giving you absolutely nothing and a shear waste of time. Home Cinema equipment as to be set up right, its the most important thing. Otherwise you will never hear the benefit of it.
| Afaceinthematrix wrote: |
| Well I guess it depends on what you value. I don't spend that much time in front of the television, so maybe I haven't given HD enough of a chance. But I honestly can't tell the difference. I have a "box television." It isn't fuzzy. I can see the picture just fine. Also, for a DVD player, what is better about an expensive one? Both do what they're meant to do, and that's play DVDs. |
A DVD player that costs more than $40 tends to be more reliable, and also produces a better picture. That's right; it's not just the TV that determines picture quality.
Sure, you can see the picture just fone on an old-school CRT TV, but when you see the same thing on an HDTV right next to it, you will definately see the difference. If you can't, then you might need to visit an optomitrist!
Sound that comes out of TV speakers sounds like crapola. I won't watch TV anymore without my home theatre system on 
I spent a lot of money for that 'couse prices are expensive in here. But now I have good homesystem and I am enjoing with that:D
I'd like to get one set up, but they are expensive. Maybe I'll get a bit at a time. At the moment I have a 40 inch TV but that's about it.
