Curious: Does anyone have pictures of the 1990's Home Theatre set up?

[wattsndrive90]

I've grown really curious about how home theatre was in the 90s, considering I was born in 1990 - I had zero interaction with things other than a VCR/VHS tapes, but that wasn't til' around 1997 or so at best. I love the older rear projection TV's especially the ones made in the 1990s, currently I'm watching the "wetwired" episode of the X-Files in season 3 where the two kids are in someones house watching Die Hard on a rear projection TV. Anywho enough rambling anyone have photos of their home theatre from the 90s to share? Thanks.

[Pondosinatra]

I remember rear-projection TV's being all the rage...

They were god awful horrible. The picture quality was abysmal. But they were large.....hideous things lol.

[Trekkie313]

Actually the CRT projector inside those TV were great if you freed it from it's casing. The later HDTV models were amazing for early 720-1080p gaming if you didn't mind lag.

[wattsndrive90]

I think I would've liked rear projection TV's had a I been an adult to buy one back when made. I basically live off walmart 4k tv's and I'm fine with those, no OLED, or even QLED...also no name brand TV's either. Just 65in+ I like size over quality like a lot of people.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by Trekkie313

Actually the CRT projector inside those TV were great if you freed it from it's casing. The later HDTV models were amazing for early 720-1080p gaming if you didn't mind lag.

I remember seeing these monstrosities hanging from the ceiling in sports bars...lol.

[floridaswamprat]

In the 1990s, home theaters were called "dens."

[CompleteCount]

I've still got a load of issues of Home Cinema Choice in the loft, which - each month - had an article where they went into readers' homes and did an in-depth look at their systems.

It was great until it began focusing on those with more "aspirational" set-ups than those with attainable ones.

[FatDog55]

I used to subscribe to "Home Theater" magazine. I remember one set of pictures of the equipment. Someone took what looked like kitchen cabinets. The ones with a pull-out drawer on the top and a cabinet with shelves/drawers underneath.

They removed the top drawer and mounted the receiver, the disk players, the SAT receivers in place. They cut a thin frame to surround the face of each piece of gear so it looked custom installed. The drawers/shelves were storage for remotes, disks, video games, etc.

Then they had a formica countertop on top and the big-screen TV flush mounted into the wall above.

It looked very high-end and customized but in reality it was a few hundred dollars from HomeDepot for the cabinents and a formica counter top that is sold by the foot.

[Jim L]

This is the earliest pic I have of a home theater setup. It was more of an 'A/V family room' thing back then. So the best we had was the rear projections. This TV was a 'huge' 53" -- the biggest setup I could afford.
No blu-ray, no lossless sound but my audio was a 6.1 setup.

[lilboyblu]

[meremortal]

Big screen tvs seemed fairly rare in the wild in the 90s. We had one, but I recall nearly every house I ever went to had a tv in the 19" to 32" or so range back then. Our aunt also had a massive tv; they lived way out in the country and watched tv most of the day.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by lilboyblu

Both of these pictures are painful to look at with the stereo imaging being ruined by the idiotic placement if the right and left channels relative to the screen... one of them has the centre channel off to the side..lol...

The HT community has always had people with more money than sense...

[jusmu]

The Tom Green Show - Celebrity Home Tours - YouTube

Here is Tom Green visiting Fabio`s home and his home theater somewhere mid-90`s

[guizhang]

the big blocky consoles (BBCs) of the 90s were cool but i was born in 84 and my grandparents had something like this

[Tornado Red]

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From the mid 80's. Sony ProFeel 27" monitor, Sony integrated (TAF3A as I recall), Sony tuner, ADC sound shaper equalizer, Sony Beta Hi-Fi vcr, Pioneer cassette deck, Pioneer or Sony turntable (had both at some point, not sure which this is) and Advent speakers. Good times!

[LanceL]

I didn't even know about home theaters until I was in my 20s. And even then, I didn't quite understand surround sound receivers.

[BluBonnet]

Don't have any photos but one thing you gotta understand is that laserdiscs were huge back then for anybody who wanted better PQ and better sound than you'd get with VHS.

The early Criterion laserdiscs were the first home video releases to really take advantage of supplemental materials like deleted scenes, audio commentary, etc.

[octanejunkie]

A friend of mine had a huge Toshiba CRT back in the mid 90's and had a high end Pro Logic system with massive speaker cabinets.
I can remember when that "Spaceman" Levi jeans advert came on he used to crank it right up. We all thought it was amazing! Lol

[hometheatergeek]

Here is my system from around 1994-1996.
Pioneer Elite 51" rear projection. There were also 2 Laserdiscs players, with one of them being a Pioneer Elite CLD-79. A high-end Mitsubishi VCR player and later the reference Sony DVD player at the time. Everything connected to, at that time, a high-end Yamaha DSP-A3090 AVR.

Sorry for the crappy picture.

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I still own/use the Klipsch Forte II speakers (upgraded crossovers) to this day in my HT system.

[andjar01]

This 28 incher from 1994 was probably one of the best tvs you could have paired a dvd player with in 1996.