"Designing Your Own Home Theater"
The complexities associated with setting up a home theater are best approached in a step by step process. Identifying the various components of a home theater, its setting or context requires adverting to issues that form the basic framework for your home theater.
Designing a home theater has to start with looking at the basic output of the home theater system, which would mainly be in the form of sound and light. In looking at what affects the quality of sound and light, room dimensions and interiors gain significance. Principally then, questions of how to design a home theater would require looking at the audio video components and room settings.
Let's start with the individual outputs, viz. sound and light, which contributes to displaying pictures of video. Sound has attributes of intensity, pitch, and timbre, with susceptibilities to reverberations and echoes, the former factors being affected by the kind of music system and the latter being affected by room dimensions and room acoustics.
Looking at light, we find that light, also being part of the electromagnetic spectrum, has attributes of intensity or luminance, and is affected by ambient light in the room, while picture or video quality is affected by contrast issues, image aspect ratios, pixel resolution and the like, all of which are partially affected by the kind of device or video equipment, and partially by the room setting or environment.
This means that in looking at how to design a movie room, one needs to determine the kind of equipment required with reference to room parameters, while also making allowance for the fact that this is a dynamic process which involves cross referencing back and forth before the perfect movie or home theater is designed.