What Is The Right Equipment For Your Media Room?

So you’ve decided that you want a media room in your home to take your entertainment to the next level, that’s great. Now comes the hard part of determining what kind of equipment you want in your space. Luckily, there are common practices for media room design that can easily guide you through this process.

How do the dimensions of your media room change the screen size and acoustics? What kind of activities will take place in your space? Keep reading to find out the answers to these questions, which will help you create the ideal media room design for your Williamsburg home.

 

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Screen Size and Acoustics

Audio and video are the core of your media room experience, and you want your equipment to be optimized for your unique space and needs. You don’t want to go much smaller than 50” for your TV screen, unless you’re dealing with a particularly small media room situation. Most media rooms will mostly likely have flat-panel displays between 50”-64”, although 65”-90” will give you the most immersive viewing experience.

Video resolution is rapidly reaching levels of clarity that mimic what the human eye sees in reality, and Ultra HD 4K is replacing 1080p as the industry standard. The resolution will ultimately impact how close you want your seating to be. If you can see the individual rows and columns of pixels on the screen, you’re too close, but that distance is changing thanks to 4K screens. With a 65” 1080p display, you want to be at least 8 feet away, but that distance gets approximately 2 feet shorter with a 4K display. All of these elements will factor into creating the best seating for you and your family.

A lot of people consider sound to be less important than the visuals of their media room, but audio surrounds a person, pulling them deeper into their entertainment. A Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar can do the trick in a smaller room, but you’ll want a surround sound system for larger spaces.

Whichever you choose, you want technology outfitted with Dolby Atmos, which bounces audio off of different surfaces in the room to make sounds appear out of thin air around the viewer. To make that sound as rich as possible, you’ll want to work with an A/V professional like Electronic Lifestyles to determine the precise acoustic qualities of the room and incorporate any treatments necessary to enhance the space.

 

Customize The Space For Your Activities

The best thing about your media room design is that it is customized to the specific needs and desires of your family. If you have serious gamers in your house, you might want to have multiple screens in the room so they can have gaming parties with friends. Multiple screens is also very helpful for fans of professional sports, giving you the opportunity to watch different games at the same time, so your media room has a sports bar feel.

You can also mix and match equipment for your different viewing habits. If your media room is going to be used for both casual TV watching and dedicated viewing parties, you can have a flat-screen TV mounted against the wall with a projector screen that drops down in front of it. All it takes is the push of a button on your smart home control system to transform your media room into a home theater, lowering the projector screen while dimming the lights, dropping motorized shades, and directing airflow toward the space to keep it comfortable.

 

Media room design goes beyond these two elements but thinking about your choices is an excellent place to start. To learn more details about what the process would entail for your Williamsburg home, reach out to one of our experts at 718-706-6835 or by filling out our online form.