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How To Create Your Own Home Movie Experience

If you enjoy watching movies, you may have considered installing a home movie theater in your home so that you can watch them in even more comfort. It’s a great idea if you have the space such as a spare room or perhaps an outside room in your yard, for example. You might even want to turn your garage into a movie theater. If you do want to do this, here are some hints and tips on how to get it right.

Don’t Look Up

Your initial thoughts might be to put the screen up high so that everyone can see it no matter where they are in the room, but that won’t be a good idea in the long term. The neck isn’t made to be kept at a tilted angle for hours on end, and if your screen is up high, that’s how you’ll need to sit. This will give you pain in the neck and shoulders. So when you are positioning your screen it’s best to put it where your gaze automatically rests – that is, not too high and not too low. The center of the monitor should be roughly three to five feet from the floor, depending on the height of the room and where your seating is.

Block Out The Sun

The sun is a wonderful thing, but not when you’re trying to watch a movie in comfort in your own home movie theater. Before you install your screen, check out where the sun is going to be shining at different times of the day, and never place the screen where the light is going to impact it. If there is no way to get away from the sun in the room you have chosen, you may need to install blackout blinds or drapes.

The Library

To really make the most of your movie theater, it’s a good idea to have a library of movies on a dedicated laptop that you can call upon and stream onto your screen or projector when you want to. This saves keeping a lot of DVDs in the room and gives you more space. You may have an old laptop that you’re no longer using, and this can be ideal. Make sure you have all the space you need in terms of hard drive capacity with help from Secure Data Recovery Services to ensure that you have all the space you need. Over time you can build up your library so that you have hundreds or even thousands of movies at your fingertips.

Don’t Hide Your Speakers

Before purchasing a sound system, it is important to choose one that fits the style of the room. According to audio experts at https://musiccritic.com, “the style of your stereo will be only important if you want to make sure that your stereo fits in with the rest of your decor. If you’re a classic nester, then you should be able to find a system that fits your needs.” Many people don’t like how speakers look – they may not match any of the furniture or other décor, and they can detract from the rest of the room. This means that the speakers can be hidden away in cabinets or behind drapes, or anywhere else that they won’t be noticed. The problem with this is that hiding them will reduce the sound that you can hear from them, which isn’t the point of having them at all. Your speakers should be on display, so take some time to find ones that you like the look of, and you’ll get the benefit of their use much more.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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