Lounge / Home Theatre
A lounge room is an informal or semi-formal living room. A home theatre (home entertainment systems that seek to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood, with the help of video and audio equipment) is usually seen in higher-end homes. In such homes, the formal living room may not be equipped with a television.
The development of multi-channel audio systems and later Laser Disc in the 1980s created a new paradigm for home video. In the early to mid-1990s, a typical home cinema in India would have a Laser Disc or VHS player fed to a large rear-projection television set. Some people were using expensive front projectors in a darkened viewing room.
Beginning in the late 1990s, and continuing throughout much of the 2000s, home-theater technology progressed with the development of the DVD-Video format, Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio(surround sound) speaker systems, and high-definition television (HDTV). In the 2010s, 3D television technology and Blu-ray Disc have ushered in a new era of home theater once again.
Increasingly in modern homes, due to challenges of lifestyle as well as space, one sees the trend of combining the home theatre in the lounge room.
