Home entertainment, as the name suggests, means a mode of entertainment in your own home. It includes something which can entertain you at your own place without having to go out to entertain yourself. Therefore home entertainment is usually referred to audio and video components that can play different kinds of media in a comfy and expedient setting of a home. Therefore, home theatre system is taken as synonymous to home entertainment.
Now we need to understand what is meant by a home theatre system. It is a really simple term meaning a setting of audio and visual components inside a home in such a way that they create cinema-like experience. There are different companies that provide the service for installation of a home theatre system and give different packages for it. Some include a complete integrated home theatre system and some include individual components to be bought by the customer. Now the components of a home theatre include a wide screen HDTV set, a DVD player and some speakers along with a subwoofer.
The integrated home theater systems come in 3 different packages usually depending on the price of these packages.
• The budget level integrated home theatre system’s price is usually less than $100. They include a DVD player, 5 speakers and an amplifier.
• The mid-level integrated home theatre systems usually range from $300 to $1000. They include a DVD player, 6 speakers including a subwoofer and an amplifier.
• The high end integrated home theatre systems cost more than $1000! These systems include high definition DVD players, surround speakers and a powerful receiver.