Home Cinema: Movie theater, Home audio, United States, Eastman Kodak, 8 mm film, Laserdisc, 1980s, 1990s, VHS, Rear-projection television, DVD-Video, Dolby … Surround sound, High-definition television
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Home cinema, also commonly called home theater or home theatre, are home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce movie theater video and audio feeling in a private home. In the 1950s, playing home movies became popular in the United States with Kodak 8 mm film projector equipment becoming affordable. The development of multi-channel audio systems and later laserdisc in the 1980s created a new paradigm for home cinema. In the early to mid 1990s, a typical home cinema in the United States would have a laserdisc or VHS player fed to a large rear-projection television. In the late 1990s, home theatre technology progressed with the development of the DVD-Video format, Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio (“surround sound”) speaker systems, and high-definition television. In the 2000s, the term “home cinema” encompasses a range of systems meant for movie playback at home. The most basic and common system could be a DVD player, a standard large-screen television,… More >> Home Cinema: Movie theater, Home audio, United States, Eastman Kodak, 8 mm film, Laserdisc, 1980s, 1990s, VHS, Rear-projection television, DVD-Video, Dolby … Surround sound, High-definition television
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