ARTICLES: Home Theater

Home theater systems come in a wide range of prices and styles and all have the ability to turn your living room into a fantastic movie or music experience without sacraficing large amounts of space. Modern home theater systems usually have wireless speakers that will pick up the signal that the central receiver sends out without being attached to speaker wires. This feature alone has been a huge advance and selling point for home theater systems in recent years. With the wireless speakers, you have so many more options when designing the configuration of your speaker layout in your living room. Wireless speakers eliminate the task and headache of having to figure out how and where to route foot after foot of speaker wire to keep it out from underfoot and unobtrusive. Wireless home theater systems generally come with a number of smaller satellite speakers that can be mounted in corners of walls, placed on coffee tables, or on mantles .Many home theaters now also come with two tall, slim tower speakers that are as much a piece of home decor as they are a piece of sound equipment. Theses speakers are sleak, some come with lighting effects that stand out in a darkened room, and many now come equiped with an iPod dock. This allows you to simply plug in your iPod to the home theater system and immediately have you playlist of favorites playing in surround sound in your living room. Another modern and space saving feature of some home theater systems are the wall mounted transparent CD players. This innovative design allows you to simply hang this compenent on your wall as you would a framed picture. The transparent top of the component is designed to display the CDs that are currently in the player, and many models have lighting effects to enhance the look, especially in a darkened room.