Question 1:
What Is Home Theater and What Does It Do for Me?
Answer: Quite simply a Home Theater is the setup of audio and video equipment in your home that attempts to duplicate the movie theater experience. Many people are intimidated by the term “Home Theater”, they think this means spending a lot of money and buying stacks of equipment. Then there’s the chaos of all those cables. That’s not to say you can’t have a custom built home theater that costs tens of thousands of dollars with sound that can just about shake the shingles off your roof.
Lets keep it practical. In reality, a home theater can be something as simple as a TV, a basic DVD player, an inexpensive stereo or AV receiver, and 2 or more speakers. For some, an all-in-one speaker “array” will fit the bill, giving improved sound over the tv’s sound with installation simplicity. In the end, the type of system you end up with is whatever provides the entertainment options you require and enjoy, then this is your “Home Theater”. Really, a home theater is intended to provide you with an entertainment option that is suitable for watching television and movies in a comfortable environment with more excitement than you normally would get just by watching a plain TV by itself
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Question 2:
What Is A ‘Blue Ray’ player
and why is it called that?
Answer: A Blue Ray Player is a high definition DVD player that uses a blue laser and will play ‘Blue Ray' Discs with up to 1080P resolution. These discs look just like a DVD and in fact are much the same, but with considerably more information stored in it's smaller pits and dashes in the surface. Usually Blue Ray discs have multiple layers of pits over-layed, one on top of the other. Don't worry though, all but the very first players will play regular DVDs (480 lines, known as SDTV Standard Definition TV) and CDs very well. In most cases the ‘scaling' on board the Blue Ray player will improve the picture of a regular DVD by using a digital technique called ‘up-sampling' or ‘up-scaling' thereby re-drawing the SDTV information on the DVD from it's lowly 480 lines to 1080 lines, thereby improving the picture on your screen. This is done by the tv in the analog domain otherwise and in complex images the analog scaler will not be able to cope with the data flow and will cause ‘artifacting' within the images (not good) When this is done by the Blue Ray player in the digital domain, the picture won't be as good as full HDTV, but will never the less be improved significantly.
For more information contact Blue Door Audio Visual, 124C Middleton Avenue, Parksville, email: sales@bluedoorav.com, website: www.bluedoorav.com
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