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larryp
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Location: eden prairie mn
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:31 pm Post subject: Seating |
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Is there a "go to" place online everyone uses for great deals on Home Theater seating?
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Spanky Ham
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:31 am Post subject: |
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It was discussed in the last year or two. There is a place near Craig Rounds. I think it is hometheaterseating.com that supposedly has some nice seats. Im not sure if Craig ever went and looked at them.
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Curt Palme
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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I picked my Berklines up for a steal from a fellow forum member. I'd definitely look for used, as the HT craze has faded compared to 10-15 years ago, and there's lots of good deals to be had on nice seats. Check Craigslist for sure.
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UncleWill
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Location: Northern Virginia (outside Washington DC)
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Are people just not interested in home theater anymore?
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kal
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| UncleWill wrote: | | Are people just not interested in home theater anymore? |
There are still people interested, just not to the levels there once was. It used to be that everyone wanted/liked the idea of a dedicated HT space but of course not all could afford that or had the space for one. It was even a ‘show off’ piece that people expected you to have in houses of a certain (fairly large) size. That general public mindset has certainly changed. It’s no longer a priority.
Today the focus has shifted to home breweries. (Just kidding - that’s even more niche!) 
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Curt Palme
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and reel to reel tape recorders.
www.reeltoreeltech.com
Back 20 years ago, digitals were in their infancy, expensive, and looked terrible. Flat screens weren't even on the horizon yet. A true home theater was at least $100K at retail, and were the thing of the rich and elite only as Kal said.
thanks to the internet and the improvement of digitals, starting about 1999 (when I found ebay!), people could get that same $100K theater for under $10K thanks to surplus equipment and projectors. HD also became mainstream around 1999, and by 2000, I was getting 150 emails a day of people asking about CRT projectors.
With digitals becoming cheaper, and a flat screen being even less than a projector and screen, that's what most people are doing. You can now get an elite home theater at WalMart <sarcasm>.
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AnalogRocks
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<Shamless plugs>
| kal wrote: | | UncleWill wrote: | | Are people just not interested in home theater anymore? |
Today the focus has shifted to home breweries. (Just kidding - that’s even more niche!)
Kal |
</Shamless Plugs> 
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jbltecnicspro
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Curt Palme wrote: |
With digitals becoming cheaper, and a flat screen being even less than a projector and screen, that's what most people are doing. You can now get an elite home theater at WalMart <sarcasm>.
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For the screen at least, Walmart isn't a total loss. Most manufacturers are now allowing what used to be service-level adjustments in user modes and where there's a will - there's a way. Give someone an i1 display pro, a calibration disc, and a good set of instructions (Kal's calibration for dummies is an excellent post on the subject), and they'll even have a Walmart display looking pretty good.
My opinion at least, for whatever it's worth.
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