When you purchase a home theatre system, you have either done everything right or made absolutely bad choices. Here are the top five mistakes people make with a home movie system:
1. Bigger is better – the screen size is important, but it is not everything. Do not ignore the viewing distance. Make sure that everything looks good at the distance from screen to sofa. Take the measurements into consideration when buying your plasma or LCD screen. When buying an LCD, check out off-axis viewing positions as their viewing angle is limited.
2. Flatter Is Better – yes, it is cooler and may fit better at home. However, correctly adjusted tube-based displays deliver better picture quality. These displays do have a downside, which is that they are a bulky set, and require both initial calibration and periodic readjustment for best picture quality.
3. Ignore the source – this is a big mistake. Video displays are useless without signal sources. If your main source is antenna, you’ll need an ATSC turner to receive digital channels including HDTV, an NTSC tuner will help receive analog channels. Remember to look carefully before making the purchase, a number of digital TVs lack digital tuners.
4. Digital is HDTV – absolutely not. Television hardware and programming can be digital with being high definition. Know what you’re buying. For a instance a display cannot support at least 720 pixels x 1280 pixels if it is not true HDTV.
5. The picture looks awesome, do not bother with the controls – not true. First, fix the elevated contrast setting. Then lower the colour temperature so the whites do not look too blue.