You need to decide whether you will be converting a spare room to a home theater or if you would be installing the home theater system in your living room or perhaps you would want to build an additional room. A dedicate home theater room is of course the ideal choice because you can go all out in setting up and decorating it as a small-scale movie theater. However, in most cases the living room is also the home theater. This is perfectly fine but there are certain limitations because the living room cannot of course look like a mini movie theater.
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