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Six Important Home Theater Trends
There's always something new developing for home theater enthusiasts
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A multiple screen home theater installed by Stereo East.
November 01, 2012 | by Grant Clauser

6. Value
It may seem dubious to call this a trend, but the fact is, the price of home theater products has dropped significantly while features and performance continue to improve.

Take projectors. Companies like Epson, Mitsubishi, JVC and others offer very good 3D projectors at half the cost of comparable projectors two years ago. On the high-end, companies like DPI and SIM2 offer technologies that eliminate the need for the additional expense of anamorphic lenses for viewing superwide CinemaScope movie formats.

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The Epson 5010 projector is a good value for a big screen home theater.

Also a good sign: several home theater dealers now do a large portion of their business installing complete front-projection theater systems for around $10,000. It’s possible to put in a system for even less. The front-projection systems Huse offers, for example, start at about $5,000, which includes a 110-inch screen and the programming of a universal remote control.

Check out the slide show for trend-setting home theater products.

 

 



Grant Clauser - Technology and Web Editor, Electronic House
Grant Clauser has been covering home electronics for more than 10 years with editorial roles in several consumer and trade magazines. He's done ISF-level damage to hundreds of reviewed products and has had audio training from Home Acoustics Alliance and Sencore. He's also the author of the book The Trouble with Rivers. Follow him on Twitter @geclauser.



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Posted by Grant Clauser  on  11/02/12  at  06:57 AM

@Tuckertues, Most of the multi-screen rooms I’ve seen are for extreme sports fans, and I believe you’re right, it’s a variation of the “second screen” phenomenon brought on by smartphones, laptops and tablets. However, when you ask a person if they want to watch two games on screens the size of a notepad or on big TVs, the only decision is “how big?”

Posted by Tuckertues  on  11/01/12  at  01:32 PM

Grant -

I have to wonder if the multi-screen/ Multi-use rooms are a direct reaction to the trend of clients desire to have content directed to the second screens -(i.e. tablets such as iPads)  over a main common screen. 

I have my doubts that the trend toward small in the residential world is stoppable.



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