Talk:Home cinema

message: The discussion of "what is a Home Theater" is a pretty heated one.  Participants at the avsforum.com often debate this, often heatedly.  
Perhaps the most important reason for the debate is to help people that are interested in home theater to identify to others outside the "hobby" precisely what they have. Hence, "come see a movie on my home theater" could mean watching a movie on a 13" TV with a Walmart home-theater-in-a-box or seeing the same movie in a dedicated room that rivals a Hollywood mogul's private screening room.
So, how do you define "home theater"?
* Minimum: 27-inch screen; surround sound; DVD player.   Tysto 07:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: I had home theatre years ago--and so did many others--with 16mm projetors. In fact there were even Cinemascope releases on Super16 with anamorphic lenses. But I see no mention of Film Projectors in this article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.238.69 (talk) 07:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about FILM ? 

message: What is the term "cinch" as used in this article? I've never encountered it before. Rlw 00:43, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
* If something is a cinch, it is very easy to accomplish. I think it's an American word, I'v only ever heard it on American TV. It's slang, similar to the English "it's a doddle". I can't find tilde on my new keyboard...a-ha! boffy_b 22:20, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is "cinch"? 

message: Isn't home theater the more common version of the concept?
For instance, Google returns the following pages for the terms:
'home theater': 259,000,000  
'home theatre': 204,000,000 
'home cinema': 204,000,000 
I think Home Cinema should redirect to Home Theater, rather than the other way.
--Priyatu 13:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with using theatre or theater is that it is ambiguous. A theatre is more commonly a place to go and see a play, or (in exclusively US terminology) it can be a place to go and see a film. However, "cinema" is unambiguous and is also used in US English alongside "movie theatre". Additionally, cinema is closer to the German "kino", French "cinema", italian "cinema", spanish "cine" etc. etc. Thus non-native English speakers will struggle less with "cinema" than "theatre". So, I think we need to stick with "home cinema", because a) it is unambiguous and b) it will reduce confusion for non-native English speakers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 20.133.0.15 (talk) 13:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home Cinema or Home Theater? 

message: Looks like it would make a nice addition here. Does not look strong enough for its own article.  Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim  12:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge [[Home theater seating]] here 

message: I think my photo is good for the backyard theater part; the previous image was "same as above without screen image". Daniel Christensen (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy crap, it's STILL there. Haha I'm going to change it myself. Daniel Christensen (talk) 00:36, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: My photo

message: This article needs good references. There is also a lot of unreferenced material, weasel words (such as comparison to theater builds to a new car). A lot of info might have been true, if unreferenced and even virtually unreferencable, but is very outdated. I added a little 2010s section and a couple images. The one to the right was removed (PS3-2007, 2004 high-end TV, DVD, VCR, SNES); I know it's bad, but so are the other images. The one in the lead wouldn't even count as a decent living room setup anymore, with a TV that small. As of 2016, a 50 or 60 inch 4K resolution TV much larger costs about as much as a 1080p TV of about 40 inches in 2007. The very definition of "home theater" is different now that a flat panel TV is just a generic household electronic. If good references cannot be found due to nature of this cold and heartless topic, callous, ignorant and irrelevant to real world problems, then it should be cut down greatly to just sum up the key points. B137 (talk) 18:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking around, I wouldn't trust the images by "Paul Chin," all varied low res photos, probably copyvios. I uploaded a couple that are more trustworthy. B137 (talk) 16:18, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pics, general vitals