.: Welcome to the Home Theater page!
Why do I have a home theater page? I have always loved movies and one of my dreams was to have my
own home theater so when Darla and I purchased our
new house
the basement was unfinished with a prefect place to build my own home theater.
Now that I have a home theater I decided to have a web page to share my
experience with everyone and talk about new stuff I would like, movies I've
seen, and anything to do with home theater entertainment.
Some time around 1983 Darla and I were living
in Rodney Michigan we had a 19" color TV no satellite and no cable just off air
antenna for local TV.
VCR and Bata were still in the battle of the movie format and I was looking for
my first big home theater purchase. On my budget a new VCR was out of the
question so I found a used RCA for $400.00. Top loading and no remote but man was
it cool. Movie rental was 5 bucks for 3 days and that was if you were a member
of the club which was $25 bucks per year.
About 2 or 3 years later we purchased a new
house in Morley with a big living room and the 19" became obsolete. I found a NEC
43" big screen TV I don't remember the price. A few months later I bought a 12
foot Paraclipse dish and that was back when all the programming was free. (but
that didn't last long) I do remember paying $3,000 for the dish. Also I think we
upgraded the VCR to a NEC with remote. Next I went to
ABC ware house and found a surround sound system. All the A/V comports were
Pioneer I don't remember model numbers but at the time it was a awesome
system. Now I had a home theater system with big screen TV VCR Satellite and
Dolby Sound System.
Moving to Birdseye Indiana in 1995 we upgraded
the TV to a 60" RCA and stereo receiver to a new pioneer with Doby
surround sound pro-logic. About 2 years later we moved to Huntingburg over the 7
years we lived there I upgraded my hole system. First the
TV RCA P61310 61"
Digital high Def. Stereo
Onkyo 656 Doby
Digital 5.1. Contrary to what Gregg Pearson thinks the
Polk front speakers I
purchases on e-bay are suppior to his Infinity's. The RT21s had a retail of
$849.00 each and that was about twice as much as I wanted to spend not to
mention what the wife would say if I tried to spend that much. I took a look on
e-bay and found some used for $700 in Kansas City. However to me used speakers
just don't sound as good as new ones they lose sound quality over time. I
e-mailed the guy and he said he blew them up and Polk replaced the drivers so
they were just like getting new speakers. The wife and I took a weekend and
drove to KC pick them up and they have been great speakers. My Front speaker is
a Polk also CS400
awesome sounding speaker! Rear speakers book shelf Infinity's. No more VCR now
it is DVD Sony
DVP-NS700P. Now for the finishing touches
XBOX gaming system.
the reason I went with this is xbox live. Play games with other people over the
Internet.
2003 we move to Otwell and start construction on the new
Home Theater!
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