What Are The Latest Trends in Home Theater Technology?
A Professional Home Cinema Installer Advises You on the Best Features Available
Our team has dedicated itself to delivering tailor-made luxury theaters for our clients for the past two decades. These theaters offer immersive audio, dynamic visuals, and easy-to-use controls that let you disappear into another world at a moment's notice. How are we able to deliver stellar results for our clients every time?
One reason is our years of experience as home cinema installers working with many clients and top-of-the-line manufacturers. A passion for the industry is another. By researching the latest trends and technologies, we stay current on the best solutions available for our clients. With that in mind, we wanted to outline three features making a big wave this year.
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Mini-LED Displays
Typically, homeowners have to choose between a traditional flatscreen or projector-and-screen combination for their theaters. The former offers greater brightness and color saturation, while the latter makes it easier to scale up to larger formats. Today, microLED displays are making their way into homes as the perfect balance between the two.
MicroLEDs consist of a tiled system combining various displays to create one seamless image. Companies like Sony and Samsung offer wall-wide micro-LED applications in commercial settings and are improving the technology to allow for residential uses. These displays provide more dynamic, blacker, and brighter images that will let theaters shine even if there's ambient light.
Immersive Audio Expanded to Hi-Fi
Dolby Atmos debuted over ten years ago, allowing for immersive 3-D sound in commercial and residential theaters. An exciting development in recent years has been the application of immersive audio for music recordings. You could transform your theater into a concert hall with hi-fi sound surrounding you from all sides.
There are a few things that led to this development. First was the growth in popularity of streaming concerts, pushing for the need for multi-purpose entertainment spaces with strong stereo speakers in the front. To meet that demand, manufacturers then came out with high-end receivers that decode those recordings just as the artists intended.
120hz Frame Rate
This section may sound the most technical, but bear with us as we think it'll have the most significant impact on your home theater as it becomes more mainstream. The latest HDMI 2.1 connection standard will make it easier for video displays to show content at 120Hz (120 frames per second). Why is 120Hz so important?
In gaming and sports viewing, a lot of fast content becomes blurry when shown at slower frame rates. By incorporating 120 FPS and variable refresh rates, displays will adapt to the signal to offer the crispest image possible. In slow, dialogue-heavy dramas FPS can drop to as low as 24 without sacrificing quality. When watching an F1 race, the display transitions to 120 FPS to see every detail on the car as it rounds the corner at 200 MPH.
Do you want to incorporate this technology in your theater? Reach out to D-Tronics Home & Business, the area's most trusted home cinema installer. Schedule a consultation with our team by calling, filling out our contact form, or chatting below.
