Here are some ways to make movie night a Groovy Night!

1. Change the Carpet

Get a different carpet and spread it over the floor. Purple or red carpet for “movie night” can be fun. More carpet causes more sound bounce in high performance speakers and changes the audio signature for the room. With sound rolling off the ceiling and floors differently, this can give the ‘den” or TV watching room new life. Still shopping for a new or used LCD TV? Look for a LCD TV model with the best sound system review or one that matches up with your existing amplifiers and transducers for optimum sound quality.

2. Buttery Popcorn

You don’t have to eat that 4,000 calorie movie popcorn to make your taste buds expect a movie. Some movies made for the big screen TV these days were made just for watching popcorn. Get paper cartons from the party store and decorate them with your own ‘cinema’ name on them. Then pop up natural popcorn and season with Parmesan cheese, butter low-calorie spray, and sea salt. popcorn crunch enhances any movie night.

3. Screen Positioning

The setup of any movie theater at home or at the cinema is a high quality TV screen placed angled and elevated on a wall. Set the LCD TV or projector to hit the wall at a classically movie theater height in front of the “auditorium”. This is an event arrangement. The larger the LCD TV the better in this case.

Consider the eyesight of who will be viewing the movie and make sure the LCD TV is far enough away form such persons as they need. Get neck cushions or rolls for seat backs if the LCD angle is high on a mount. LCD TV watching is best done in a darkened room when walls are white. Gray makes a good wall color for daytime movie watching.

4. Seating

The seats at any cinema are not the seats you have at home. They are more plush, more textured, and more interior-flash friendly than whatever would normally be chosen for a home. The truth is, cinema chain decorators work hard choosing furnishings that look and feel special, not like the family couch or worn armchair.

Get extra body pillows, massaging wood rolls (for lumbar & spine) or electric massagers for a cricked neck. Some movies are up to 3 or more hours, movie watchers should take a break and relax stretched muscles once in a while. Get rid of scratchy fabrics and smelly seat covers.

5. Footrests

Cinemas lack on essential feature only a home theater can provide: luxury footrests. Conventional seating and extended TV watching actually strains knees and for some tall or larger people. This can be very uncomfortable. Foot bricks and footrests can allow elevated footrests for those that need it. This leads to less aches and pains in knees and shins when the movie’s over. Foot rest stools or ottomans matching seating height can lead to more healthy circulation after hours of movie watching, too.

6. House Lights

This is a theater term to describe the lights in the auditorium. In a dark theater, formal foot lights must be installed so people can see where they are stepping while everyone else absorbs the dark lack of light to appreciate what’s happening on the screen. Innovations in lighting can make one small strip full of entertainment excitement and decorator flair. Look for white, light blue, amber and glitter strip lighting. These will be bright enough to look cool but not detract from the TV.

7. Pad for Sound

That new LCD screen is dying to show the latest DVD flick. Sound design in movies today is nothing short of the search for audio perfection. But the sound needs to be optimized for the family movie room. There’s no point taking time from a busy schedule to enjoy a movie you can’t hear. Tap walls for hollow spots and cover with carpeted frames for optimum room sound quality.

Carpet on the walls is a reality for many home theaters, but consider using foam panels or extra cushions to block sound pockets that let outside noises in and keep loud battles, crashes, explosions in the room. Block up windows and doorways, making sure the sound can be heard from all ranges of audio frequency. Use LCD speaker connections front and back and channel sound to TV watchers, not blank walls.

8. Rig the House for Quiet

Your brand new state of the art LCD TV looks great but the noises form the rest of the house might kill the effect. Washing machine sudsing up, clink of the jeans in the dryer, sprinklers going off, car alarm, cellphones , and blender are the biggest sound offenders.

Do a practice round of checking over and clicking off offensive and extraneous noise. Turn off all phone ringers and put cellphones in a drawer, turned off. Ceiling fans, air conditioners, and heat lamps coming off and on can cause vibrations as well as noise. Think about the way noise travels through a tin can and sounds different, and then eradicate all metal or audio interruptions.

9. Use Real Speakers

Any LCD TV today has specialized output jacks to connect to in the wall, custom design or even portable speakers for serious audio results. Just this once read the manual and tune the speakers to blow the audience away. Movies today are scored and sound designed to derive maximum impact from cool sound effects. Don’t waste these with a standard TV output. Even a 5.0 system for your computer can be adapted to LCD TV formal out schematics.