Home media room idea for the future

Here is one very cool idea that, I believe, will eventually find its implementation on the home media room market.

It is no secret that most people who install media rooms in their homes have some disposable income. Usually this indicates that premium products may find a comfortable niche here, even though at first the idea seems cost-prohibitive. Here is what I am talking about.

If you have visited a regular movie theater in the past two years you have noticed that many feature films are now shown in digital format. What's more interesting, however, there is a technology in place that allows movie theaters to play films that are beamed down from the satellite. The only logical step would be to open up this service to home subscribers. This way any well-to-do home media room owner/movie lover can pay to view some new theatrical releases at the same time they are actually shown in regular theaters! Obviously, there would be a very high ticket price, but it is impossible to beat the convenience.

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Media room furniture

Media room pictures

Here are some pictures of notable designs for a home media room (home theater, TV room).





















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• Media Room Must Have's
• Music room design
• Media room lighting

10 most common home theater mistakes

A little do's and don'ts tutotial:

Media Room Must Have's

• Large screen TV. The size depends on the room. There is a tendency to use projection systems, but I personally do not like the quality. Plus, using a projection system significantly reduces your lighting options for the media room. Besides, there is additional maintenance involved - you have to replace those bulbs from time to time! Plasma TVs generally are considered a better choice for home theaters, because they tend to provide better blacks, but modern LCDs are catching up very successfully. Also, try to get a 1080p model. You will not regret it later.
  
• Comfortable media room furniture. Armchairs, love seats - what have you. I implore you not to use the seats that emulate as closely as possible the seats you encounter at the movie theaters. Why? Unless you can obtain the seats from a demolished theater which somehow have a great sentimental value, stick with what's most confortable!
• A refrigerator. Yep. No matter how close the kitchen is you can always have a little fridge to keep your drinks cool. Just make sure you don't get a noisy one. You can even turn it off for the duration of the movie, if you wish.
• A surround sound system. A home media room simply would not make sense without one. The have come down in price a lot!
• A Blu Ray player. Getting cheaper all the time!

That's all folks! What I mean to say is that you don't have to overspend to have a nice home theater experience. You can certainly have a basic setup for under 5 thousand dollars. You can even go lower than that. All it takes is finding a spare room.

The 1 million dollar media room

1 million dollar media room:

Home media room: storage idea

In my opinion, the very concept of a home media room (home theater room) derived from the time-hallowed tradition of having a whole room in the house dedicated to books, that is having a home library. Such a room necessarily demanded some space assigned where you can enjoy the books: with desks, armchairs and other kinds of comfortable seating solutions. Now, remember that books are properly considered to be media, just as movies and music (which you should know if you ever used media rate to send books or CDs by USPS). It is natural then to also have special storage in your media room to house your collections of CDs and DVDs. There is a small complication, however.

Firstly, DVD and CD covers are usually quite colorful, much more so than book covers. This creates unwanted distraction even when the light in the media room is turned off. Also, because DVDs and CDs generally do not differ much in terms of their size this results in rather monotonous looking shelves of boxes, a problem hardly alleviated by the presense of boxed sets.

Secondly, a decent home theater requires good accustics. Numerous plastic boxes are not likely to achieve this.

What's the solution? It seems as if you really want to have enclosed shelving. If possible, these storage units should also have additional padding, to prevent the sound from getting trapped the room, causing dinny sounds and undesited reverb.