In today’s times, home theater has become a biggest source of entertainment. Many people set up a home theater and make their Sundays and other holidays fruitful with their family. A home theater system gives you dramatic picture quality, thumping sound quality, and content clarity. However, at times, you feel to upgrade your system for a better viewing effect, but you reluctantly decline for the fear of a heavy toll in your budget. This article intends to make you relaxed by showing some great ideas in upgrading your home system absolutely cheap or some without cost.
1. Veil your discs: Having a great collection of CDs and DVDs of the most famous movies forms an integral part of home theater. We feel proud not only to own them, but also to display them to our guests. Sometimes, the number of these CDs and DVDs exceed so much that we find the place clustered. Renovate your home theater by arranging these into old and useless cabinets or unused boxes. This would give a neat look to your room and also make it clutter-free for you to accommodate more CDs and DVDs.
2. Speaker mounts: The main success of a home theater lies in the sound effect. Add speaker mounts to your system. For better sound quality you can always get your 5.1 components off the ground. Do hoist them on your speaker wall mounts and start feeling the thump.
3. Safeguards for kids: Upgrade your home theater by ensuring that it is childproof. Check no loose wires are hanging and all the gadgets are properly placed on their respective stands and not lying on the floor where your child can easily reach.
4. Right antenna: At every electronics store you will find lots of options for your home theatre system. The most important thing for any TV set is the antenna. Before buying them, make sure that you know enough about them. Itâs an era of digital antenna. Make sure it has the best reception, and if you want to build your own antenna, research in Google and other materials.
5. Test your HDTV: As soon as you set your home theater, check the HDTV for clarity, picture quality, and the image color. Train yourself to check these from time to time rather than spending money by calling a professional to do this. It just requires a little time and good observation.
6. Multi-room wireless system: Get yourself a wireless router or an iPhone or iPod touch. It can work as a master music remote. Now, you will get more control over your tunes and also over the multi-room system from your computer too.
7. Curtain your viewing world: Buy the right curtains, such as noise reducing black-out curtains. It will create a miracle at your home theatre space. It helps eliminating light from the windows and thus giving you the theatre-like mood. As the lights are shut off you can witness improved picture quality. It also prevents sound from getting out.
8. Theater space: Create your own optimal theatre space. Watch for for any obstacles between your view and the TV screen. Avoid glares and extreme rays of light falling on the screen which would hinder your picture quality. Try any virtual room planning tools. These are very easily available on blogs. Do know the distance and size of your HDTV and plan accordingly.
9. Build your own DVR: You will need a TV tuner card or USB to turn a PC into a DVR box. It’s actually not a very tough job to build a DVR.
10. Living room and Wi-Fi: Do not buy the costly Wi-Fi adaptors and try to wire your living room over a Wi-Fi bridge. Itâs cheap.
