Home cinema
Videos
A home cinema, also called home theater, is an audio-visual system that seeks to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood in private homes using consumer grade electronic video and audio equipmen
A dedicated home cinema room with acoustic treatment, professional wiring, equipment and speaker placing, and a digital projector and screen
Home theatre room with 100" pull down screen
1912 publicity photo for the Edison Home Projecting Kinetoscope
A mid-level home theater system consisting of large-screen BRAVIA television, a Sky+ HD satellite TV box, and a DVD player (and a Blu-ray Disc-capable PlayStation 3 game console). The equipment is on a TV stand.
Home video
Videos
Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats
Some home video users have a collection of prerecorded media, such as movies, on DVDs. DVDs are only one of a number of ways of viewing home video.
Movie boxes on display at a video rental store
By the 2000s, home video purchasers moved away from videotapes, increasingly preferring DVDs. Pictured is a cart of used videotape movies on sale at a used-goods market in 2004.
Early UHD Blu-ray release at Best Buy: A UHD Blu-ray disc player was also released.