Home Theater Solutions offers a host of different services which include:


Custom designed Home Theaters / Media Rooms


Multi-room music systems


Outdoor Televisions & speaker systems


Control Systems (Universal Remotes

                 and touchpanels)


Networking (Wi-Fi & hardwired

                        ethernet)


Lighting Control -  Lighting fixture                                        control

                           - Natural lighting

                             control through

                             motorized shades


System Maintenance






Why Buy From Home Theater Solutions?

   We are authorized resellers of all the brands we use.  This gives us direct access to exclusive products and those manufacturers representatives to resolve problems or get insider information on how to maximize their products.  By allowing us to supply the products, you take advantage of our experience with recommended equipment and repeated integration of such products.  This allows us to have an expected outcome including how easy a system will be to use, how well particular products work together, product reliability and ultimately how well they will meet your project needs.  Time setting up systems and programming systems is reduced due to continued product familiarity and not having to learn the quirks of new products, saving time and money.  

A few points to make our case 


We are competitive in pricing and deliver products free of charge.

Expert system design goes hand in hand with the product selection.

Products have a reliability and performance level that has been proven.

We are a mediator for service needs.


With not much 4K media available why buy a 4K display (or 8K)?

  It's true that there is not an abundance of 4K material yet.  The options are growing though.  The new Apple TV®, Roku 4K® or an Ultra High Definition Bluray player are the best options.  Amazon video® and Netflix® are offering 4K media. There may also be some material available  on demand from your cable service provider.


  While 4k material is slowly becoming more available there is another major reason to go 4K now.  A 4K(8K) UHD television has a more powerful & faster video processor.   Not only can it handle higher resolutions but it will help clean up the common 1080i/p HD picture you get now and may be able to scale a lower resolution HD picture up to near 4K quality.  Plus there's the fact that you're investing in a new technology not old technology.


OLED vs. LED

   LED displays are some existing technology, fine tuned nowadays, with some new technology.  Quad pixels® have been introduced to maximize picture sharpness and quality with light emitting diodes precisely controlled through area dimming and edge lighting to get the most from these LED TVs.  Even still, they are an LCD display with their image illumination coming from those LEDs.  True deep black is challenging for LED TVs.  


   OLED is like Plasma displays were in a good way.  The material displaying the image is organic.  Much like plasma it emanates light when energized.  So contrarily the pixel goes black when not stimulated.  This creates great contrast on the set.  They are better with motion video also.  We haven't even mentioned the incredible thin display technology.  These TVs can be super thin, well under an inch and companies have developed rollup TVs (although a long way from production).  These are the best of what's available.


LCD vs. LED

 Pros of LCD

Not susceptible to "Burn in" - the permanent etching of an image into the screen when left static for long periods of time. This makes them better for security cameras or stock market monitors.  
Anti-glare front panel - greatly reduces reflections from adjacent windows.  LED TVs are starting to include glass front panels after realizing the resolution improvement over composite panels (a trait of Plasma panels). 
Brighter display to help with daytime viewing
Consume less energy = more green

Pros of LED
Available in 4K resolutions
Better blacks due to edge lighting. micro dimming or local dimming.  This enables the TV to shut off certain areas of the screen back-lighting to create deeper blacks.
Very thin
Better with motion video than LCD TVs
not susceptible to image retention "burn-in
Low power consumption

Very small bezel around the TV. This means more, screen less TV

Why do I get vertical black bars on the sides of the screen on a High Definition channel?

     High definition is recorded in the 16x9 format (the size of your HD screen).  It costs more to broadcast in high definition and so It is typical for an advertisement or lower budget shows to be shown in standard definition but be simultaneously broadcast on standard definition and high definition channel, saving money.  Your cable box/TV knows that the signal is a 4x3 ratio (old TVs) encrypted in the HD signal and automatically reproduces it at that size and blacks out the unused screen.  When the channel or program returns to the 16x9 format it will again fill the screen.  Standard definition channels are broadcast in the lower resolution and can be scaled to fit the screen by using a wide mode aspect setting on your TV.  Sometimes the TV will zoom the HD picture and as a result cut off part of the image.  Luckily the growing availability of HD is eliminating this problem.


Why are there black bars on the top and bottom of my screen when watching a DVD?

   Many movie production companies film their movies with an anamorphic lens which has a ratio of 2.35:1.  This is a wide angle, panoramic lens that allows more into the picture. When the film is formatted to the 16x9 standard high definition ratio, the picture is scaled down leaving space at the top and bottom to align the longer sides.  Stretching the picture (zoom, H-Fill) distorts the picture and lowers quality.  The best image will be with the bars and most don't notice them after a short period anyway.  There are many companies that are producing projection screens and projectors to fit the anamorphic size because of repeated request. Some even have a motorized zoom which changes the picture size to match the material with a push of a button. Of course you need a 2.35:1 screen to fit those widescreen movies properly.

Why does the volume get louder when a commercial comes on?

  Advertisers use "gain increase" as an attempt to get your attention during commercial breaks.  This volume increase in completely intentional.  The FCC has recognized the problem and has been working on legislation to ban it. 


**Update**  There has been a noticed addition of a feature called Dolby Volume™ to many televisions, newer cable boxes and home theater receivers to control this issue.  Check your settings to activate it.



 

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