Understanding Digital Television

11	The Home Cinema
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For some, the dream scenario for a home cinema might be a high definition projection system combined with a 7.1 multi-channel audio system.

By the end of the 1990s, the development of the TV set had gone so far that the home entertainment electronic industry started to search for something new and different. The more TV channels, the more movies. Movies are a good way of filling program hours. But movies are at their best at the cinema. Why not try to create a more cinema-like environment at home, one that is adapted to movies rather than conventional TV? The basic ideas behind the home cinema ...