As a digital enthusiast I love home theater systems, but as a TiVo fan boy my head almost exploded when I saw that the TiVo Community Forum was keeping a list of photographs featuring TiVo Series 3 home theater set-ups. So far there are 5 pages of photos and from looking at the list, I’m more than a little envious of a few of these. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of HDTVs and in just about every photo you can see some kind of kick ass sound system, even a few Xbox 360′s show up.
What I found the most interesting though, was that despite all of us starting with the same basic home theater ingredients, there are really so many unique ways you can set it up. Everything from how far you keep your TV from the wall to the brands you end up buying have an impact on what your personal theater experience feels like. Being able to look into other people’s homes made me wonder why some people choose flat screens and why others choose rear projector TVs.
With so many different ways to tweak and customize your home theater line up, do the choices we make in how we arrange our digital furniture somehow say something about our personalities? I’m not really sure, but seeing how unique each theater system was, made me think about some of my own home theater choices. In retrospect, I wish I could go back and make some decisions differently, but there will always be new technologies emerging and more choices to consider in the future.