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Home Cinema is enjoying movies in the comfort of your own home, with the same sound that you would get at your local Cinema.

ABOUT MY HOME CINEMA

I first got interested in home cinema when I went into a shop to buy a portable television. There was a Sony 29inch Nicam television in the shop. The sound from the TV was super. I couldn’t afford a 29inch at the time, so I ended up buying a 21inch Mitsubishi Nicam TV and a Nicam VCR. I connected the VCR to a £60 five watt Hi-Fi. At the time, I was impressed. That is, until I heard Dolby Pro Logic. I developed the bug, so it wasn’t long before I had to upgrade.
My next system had to be Pro Logic. I bought a Kenwood 7040 Dolby Pro Logic amplifier and connected it to a Bose 3000 XL as the front stereo, with a Pioneer centre Pioneer surround speakers. Eventually, I had a video collection of about 300 movies, all in surround sound. I could never watch a movie on an ordinary TV again. That system was fine at the time, but, with the arrival of DVD and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, I just had to go shopping again! It called for a total overhaul, including my little 21inchTV. I bought a 29inch JVC TV, a Yamaha 700 DVD with built-in Dolby Digital Decoder, and a Yamaha 592 DSP amplifier. I also bought a Yamaha subwoofer (just to annoy the neighbours!) and Mission surround and centre speakers. The sound and picture quality from this system is great, superior in fact to that of the public cinema.The whole system is controlled with the top line 8 home Theater remote.
Since I got DVD and Dolby Digital I have happily dispensed of my 300 strong video tape collection.
They just could not compete with DVD. I don’t know if my DVD collection will be as big, but it's certainly growing quickly!

Now that DVD is the way to go I have updated My DVD Player to Panasonic DVD-RV31, to make use of DTS whis I think is much better than Dolby Digital. And my DVD Collection is growing & growing.

My latest system is made up of:

TV = Thomson 32in WS (32WR2SU)
DVD1 = Yamaha DVD-S700
DVD2 = Thomson DTH4200 Why
VCR = Panasonic Nicam NY HD630
Satalite = Pace Sky Digibox
Amp = Yamaha DSP AX620

Sub = Yamaha YST-SW80
Main Speakers = Monitor Audio
Center Speaker = JPW
Rear Speakers = Misson

View My 2003 System

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Why a second DVD? I started putting camcorder clips on CDR as Video CD format. But then only to discover that the Yamaha DVD-S700 DVD player would not read CDR or CDRW disks. So I pick up the Thomson DTH4200 DVD player at a good price and it made a nice add on to the system.