How to Pick Cables for Home Theater Systems

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is expertvillage.com, we're at Leigh Adams Discount Sales and my name is Daniel Daly. Today we're going to be demonstrating how to set up your perfect home theater be it a little screen LCD, big DLP's, even giant screens on the wall. There are two extremely factors that most people forget when they're budgeting their TV and speaker system and that would be the cables and surge protection surprisingly. The cables would probably be the key component here. A good cable will not be found in the same box as you bought your VCR or DVD player. They're small little cables, the equivalent of dental floss really and they will not give you the same picture that you saw in the store. If you want the same picture, buy a good cable. You can expect to spend at least fifty dollars on a good cable for about 2 meters. These new HD Mai cables, which is the standard for most high definition now, will cost you upward of a hundred dollars, again, for a decent one. You can go up as high as two hundred dollars if you want to start approaching some of the better cables. You can get a very good looking sharp projector, 720p, for about $2500.00. You can get a 1080p version for around six thousand dollars. What most people seem to forget when they are buying their projector is the screen. The screen is extremely important. If we were to turn this off you would see the screen is not black but silver, which is why in the movies we call it silver screen. You don't want a white screen. You can't paint your wall white and expect to get a good quality picture. We have the silver because it is a lot easier to make white than it is black. At the same time if we had a black projector we'd get no lights so we had to compromise somewhere. That projector produces lights, not darkness so by shooting light at the screen we get the picture by not shooting we get the black. If this was a white screen that simply would not work. Silver seems to be the best compromise."