Don’t have time to go to the movie theater or prefer the sanctuary of your own home. Now you can create your own theater known as a “home theater”.

A home theater system has at least 5 speakers, sometimes up to 9, and a subwoofer along with other components that bring you into the action of a TV show or movie by providing real action sound that envelops your senses. Some home theater systems come prepackaged or you can build one yourself, either way there is a lot that goes into deciding what type of system is right for you. Please use this handy guide from www.Number1Direct.com to simplify your shopping experience. You may also be interested in our buying guide on sound formats that explain what the numbers (6.1, 7.1, etc…) are all about and explains the differences with Dolby, DTS and THX by clicking here.

Components of Home Theater Systems:

• Receiver: These are the “hub’ of your home theater systems and mange audio from your TV, HDTV, Blu-Ray players, DVD players and HD-DVD players and sends the signal and power to your speakers (5.1 or higher). For more on receivers, click here .

• Center Speaker: Sits right below or above your television and produces much of the vocal audio from your movie or show along with sound effects that would originate from in front of you if you were actually in the action.
• Front Side Speakers: Sits to the right and left of the television and a wide array for sounds from your TV shows or movies including vocals, sound effects and more. These are the workhorses of your home theater and would be the ones that play a 2 channel/stereo content piece.
• Surround Speakers: These speakers sit on the side of the room and produce all if the sound effects, vocals, and everything else that make a surround sound system what it is. Without these speakers, you really would not have a home theater system.
• Rear Speakers: Just like the surround speakers but would sit behind your couch or chair in the rear of the room and would provide audio that would come from behind you in the show/movie to make you feel like you’re part of the action. A system would need to be 6.1 or higher to have a rear speaker.
• Televisions: For the perfect picture, you’ll need to have a television to match the your home theater component requirements that could be 720p, 1080p, LCD, DLP, Plasma.
• DVD Player: With more and more of your favorite move coming out on DVD, you will want to add a DVD player to your theater. There are a lot of choice to choose from with up-conversion DVD players, Blu-Ray players, Blu-Ray recorders, DVD recorders, and gaming systems like PlayStation 3 and X-Box with DVD/Blu-Ray players built-in.

Number1Direct by Goedeker’s carries a variety of brands of Home Theater Brands like Yamaha,KEF, Sony, Denon, and Audiovox.

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