Best Home Theater Systems

Phillips Home Theater System

Chuck — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:33:32 +0000

Whether you’re looking for a Phillips Home Theater System or any other best home theater systems, there are a few things you need to consider first. For example;

How much are you willing to spend on this new endevour?
Have you thought about where you’re going to place it?
How big is your ‘Theater Room’?
How’s the lighting there? Are there too many large windows? Too much light can interfere with picture quality

As you can see, the questions are endless. If you have already thought about these and have answers, congratulations! You’re one step ahead of many others that blindly try to get a home theater system for their house without ever considering the above mentioned points. If you have not yet thought about it, don’t you worry, the whole purpose of our website is to make sure you understand these concepts properly before you go for the purchase.

Are you thinking of getting a television set as well? Or are you going to use the same TV set that you currently have. One of the best and most expensive TVs on the market today is the Philips 42 inch LCD HDTV, 42PF9831D with Ambilight. It costs about US$2500. But you can get larger, yet cheaper TVs such as the Philips 52PFL5603D/27 for less than half that price. It’s a 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV. Bigger doesn’t always mean more expensive.

If you want to shoot for even bigger, yet less expensive, then you should check out a projector and a giant screen. Obviously the picture quality is not going to be as good as a HDTV, but if the purpose is for your kids to watch movies during this summer vacation, I’m sure they won’t complain too much. You’re happy because you save big bucks and their happy because they got a giant screen.

Since you’re considering a Phillips home theater system, you can go for a built in system instead of buying individual components and building it from scratch. If you must build it from scratch according to your specific requirements, please stick to one brand whether it’s Philips or otherwise. Mixing and matching brands is the last thing you should do.

Following is a list of the most popular Phillips Home Theater Systems available on the market today.

Philips HDD/DVD/CD Player and 80GB Recorder – this is one of the more expensive systems. This is also because of the 80GB recorder system
Philips HTS5800H DVD Recorder Home Theater – another great system especially given it’s superior features like the i.LINK digital input for perfect digital camcorder copies and VCR plus+ for quick and easy programming
Here’s one of my favorites – Philips 2.1 DVD System HTS6600/37. It’s really neat, looks extremely fashionable
Another system that has an out of this world appearance is the AmbiSound Home Theater Sound Bar with Integrated 1080p-Upscaling DVD/MP3 Player, HTS8100/37. One of my favorite features of this is its iPod / Philips GoGear docking capability
A low end system is Philips HTS3544, yet it will do everything that you expect from home theaters.
Last but not least, my #1 favorite, yet also the most expensive – Philips DivX DVD Micro Theater System, MCD709/37. It’s priced at around $600 on Amazon, but it’s simply out of this world. Yes, it’s ‘Micro’, so it’s not bulky and not going to take tons of space yet the most elegant Phillips Home Theater System available today.

Zenith Home Theater System

Chuck — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:54:15 +0000

If you’re looking to purchase a Zenith Home Theater System, you have several options to choose from. The DVT812 300W DVD Home Theater System is one of their best home theater systems. The key features of the Zenith Home Theater System are as follows;

The source component consists of a Multi-Format Disc Playback which has the following capabilities – DVD Video/DVD±R/DVD±RW/Audio CD/CD-R/CD-RW. It also has Progressive Scan and DivX® Playback. It also comes with a built in digital AM/FM radio tuner.

The powerful sound system consists of 300W total output power. It has Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic II for superior sound quality.

A very important feature of this Zenith Home Theater System is ‘USB Media Plus’ which enables you to experience your digital music, photos and video library by connecting to the system through a USB port.

Other examples for Zenith Home Theater Systems are DA3520, DVT312, DVT412, DVT721, ZHD-311, DA3630, XBS448, and Zenith XBS448 Home Theater System.

If you compare prices of Zenith systems to other brands you will see that they’re usually less expensive compared to some of the popular brands like Pioneer. Therefore, if you’re on a budget and don’t intend to have the fanciest home theater system in the universe, Zenith can do you wonders. Unless you plan on connecting this system to an existing Television you have, you may need to purchase a separate TV set that matches the Zenith theater system you have chosen.

Remember to ask your local Zenith representative about the TV set that they would recommend because it is usually not very advisable to mix and match brands within a single system. This is why it’s best to get the advice from the experts. However, this mainly applies for speakers and the amplifier and mixing the brand of a TV may not be as crucial and detrimental to the overall quality.

Hope this brief introduction to Zenith home theater system was useful to you in many ways!

Best Home Theater Systems

Chuck — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:25:29 +0000

Want to know what the Best Home Theater Systems are? And want to build one according to your specific requirements? Or do you want to just purchase an already assembled system? Either way, following are the components of all the Best Home Theater Systems.

Source components – CD/DVD player, Blu-Ray disc player, DVD recorder/VCR combination, Antenna, Cable, or Satellite for TV
The video display device – TV or Projector with giant screen
Sound system – audio reproduction (pre-amp and amplifier), subwoofer, surround sound receiver and speaker system
Connection cables
Universal remote controller
Home theatre furniture
Surge protector
Last but not least, the room!

As you can see, that’s a lot of stuff! It’s really up to you, do you want to buy the individual units and build your best home theater system according to your tastes and specifications? Or would you rather skip the pain and settle for a professionally built system from a well known brand? It’s your call, you have the freedom of picking or building your best home theater systems! Let’s go through the individual components and see how detailed things can get.

The source components

This is the ‘source’ of the audio and video signals. It can be from an audio CD player, a DVD player (or Blu-Ray), a VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) or even an AM-FM radio (although some people would categorize this together with the amplifier and sound system. In rare cases, someone may even want a turn table in his home theater system. Another component that we cannot forget about nowadays is the DVD recorders. Since we’re not going to settle for anything less than the best home theater systems, you are probably looking at including more than one piece from the above list although not all of them are necessary.

The video display device

From the ‘source’ will originate sound and video. In this little section, we’re going to talk about video. Where do you want it to appear on? On a television screen (Plasma, LCD, rear projection or CRT) or do you want to see the movies on a giant screen? In the latter case, you will of course need a projector! This will also depend on the size of the room that you want your best home theater system located.

Sound system

As we said earlier, the ‘source’ gives out both audio and video. We have already talked about where we wanted to watch video on and now let’s talk about audio. We very well know that sound comes out through the speakers. But before it goes to the speaker set, the signal needs to be processed and distributed to the respective components in an organized manner. This is where this piece of equipment comes into play. It consists of three components; that is the AV receiver, the pre-amplifier and a multi-channel amplifier (5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 channels).

From this component, now the sound signals are distributed to the sub-woofer, loud speakers and the surround sound system via connection cables and/or wireless mechanisms (especially for wireless surround sound speaker systems).

We’ve talked about the main components of the Best Home Theater Systems above. The other components that are mentioned above are pretty straight forward and self explanatory, so we will not waste your time on that!