Bring the Cinema Home
HOME THEATER
OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT
Taking the party outside? Just bring your smart home remote or mobile device. Friends
can take turns controlling the music without having to dash inside.
The same Ascension solutions that offer intuitive access to endless audio and video options
throughout your smart home, seamlessly transition to your outdoor spaces. Pair your Ascension home entertainment system with award-winning speaker solutions from SpeakerCraft or Niles to experience satisfyingly full sound while enjoying the fresh air.
What’s your ideal theater atmosphere—lights dimmed, shades drawn, and surrounded by
perfectly-equalized sound? With Ascension's home entertainment system and smart home controller, a single touch turns your media room into a total cinematic experience. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the show.
Home cinema, also called home theaters or theater rooms, are home entertainment audio-visual systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood using consumer
electronics-grade video and audio equipment that is set up in a room or backyard of a private
home. In the 1980s, home cinemas typically consisted of a movie pre-recorded on a LaserDiscor VHS tape; a LaserDisc or VHS player; and a heavy, bulky large-screen cathode ray tube TVset, although sometimes CRT projectors were used instead. In the 2000s, technological
innovations in sound systems, video player equipment and TV screens and video projectors
have changed the equipment used in home cinema set-ups and enabled home users to
experience a higher-resolution screen image,
improved sound quality and components that offerusers more options (e.g., many of the more expensive Blu-ray players in 2016 can also "stream"movies and TV shows over the Internet using subscription services such as Netflix). Thedevelopment of Internet-based subscription services means that 2016-era home theatre usersdo not have to commute to a video rental store as was common in the 1980s and 1990s(nevertheless, some movie enthusiasts buy DVD or Blu-ray discs of their favorite content)
In the 2020s, a home cinema system typically uses a large projected image from a videoprojector or a large flat-screen high-resolution HDTV system, a movie or other video content ona DVD or high-resolution Blu-ray disc, which is played on a DVD player or Blu-ray player, withthe audio augmented with a multi-channel power amplifier and anywhere from two speakers anda stereo power amp (for stereo sound) to a 5.1 channel amplifier and five or more surroundsound speaker cabinets (with a surround sound system). Whether home cinema enthusiastshave a stereo set-up or a 5.1 channel surround system, they typically use at least one lowfrequencysubwoofer speaker cabinet to amplify low-frequency effects from movie soundtracksand reproduce the deep pitches from the musical soundtrack.