Introduction

Home theater rooms are gathering spaces with one main purpose: watching movies. These rooms can also have other uses like listening to and performing music, entertaining, gaming, or simply lounging. Home Theater Video Design provides the parameters for the proper design of a home theater that meets relevant industry guidelines. Additionally, these practices ensure that a home theater supports other multi-media uses such as music, gaming, photo viewing, web browsing, and broadcast TV.

Whether used as a dedicated space or a multi-purpose space, a properly executed home theater should be able to faithfully reproduce the picture and sound content. That's because the film director and the entire crew working alongside the director carefully craft the content to create an emotionally engaging story that can transport the audience to far away lands in far away times. Therefore, it is important that the professionals who deliver the home theater experience be aware of the precise set of video and audio standards by which film content is created. The best way to ensure that an ESC's projects are successful and that customers are satisfied is simply adhering to movie technical production standards.

When designing a home theater, many factors come into play. Several are interdependent and interactive, and the design process will invariably be iterative. Every step will need to be revisited and altered, continuing around the circle of decision points multiple times until the work is finished. Strive for the ideal, but some compromises – in the name of space, layout, safety, aesthetics, and results of customer interviews – are inevitable. For example, the picture screen and front speakers will compete for space since they need to be in the same location. Of the several ways to deal with that issue, some yield better overall results than others. Ultimately, the best sounding and best looking home theater experience is the one with the most intelligent set of compromises!