We are redecorating our house and I want to get a decent home cinema setup for the main lounge, I also want to have a second room where I want to be able to watch another source to the main room, i.e. I want to be able to send two independent video+audio signals to two different rooms at the same time, now I dont know if this is even possible with todays relatively cheap (£500-£1000) home cinema amp or receivers.
I am not sure of the difference between an amp and a receiver to start with, I have had a look round the web and nothing jumps out as being a documented "this is an amp and this is a receiver" the only difference I can tell is that receivers have FM radio receivers built in.
So here is a list of what I think I need for 2 rooms, the second room would only have 2 speakers, the main room 5.1 surround
Main room:
37-46" plasma/lcd - please advise which is best lcd or plasma, we tend to watch very little sport and lots of movies
5.1 surround sound speakers - after a few searchs I like the look of the mission M-cube setup for this, is it any good?
Amp/receiver - have heard that the sony STR-DG range DA range and the Onkyo's are good, but can they do what I want
DVD player - no idea which to go for on this
Secondary room:
32" lcd or plasma - again please advise
I already have some old Mission 701's that will do for now for this room.
Obviously there are a lot of open ended questions here and no idea on budget, I dont want to go bonkers and spend thousands, but I want a setup that will last, most of the above items usually fit into a low/medium/high end categories, so ideas at each budget range would be handy.
There will also be Sky+ box and a PC sending audio and or video into this Amp. A lot of newbie questions there for some experts to have a go at!
I am not sure of the difference between an amp and a receiver to start with, I have had a look round the web and nothing jumps out as being a documented "this is an amp and this is a receiver" the only difference I can tell is that receivers have FM radio receivers built in.
So here is a list of what I think I need for 2 rooms, the second room would only have 2 speakers, the main room 5.1 surround
Main room:
37-46" plasma/lcd - please advise which is best lcd or plasma, we tend to watch very little sport and lots of movies
5.1 surround sound speakers - after a few searchs I like the look of the mission M-cube setup for this, is it any good?
Amp/receiver - have heard that the sony STR-DG range DA range and the Onkyo's are good, but can they do what I want
DVD player - no idea which to go for on this
Secondary room:
32" lcd or plasma - again please advise
I already have some old Mission 701's that will do for now for this room.
Obviously there are a lot of open ended questions here and no idea on budget, I dont want to go bonkers and spend thousands, but I want a setup that will last, most of the above items usually fit into a low/medium/high end categories, so ideas at each budget range would be handy.
There will also be Sky+ box and a PC sending audio and or video into this Amp. A lot of newbie questions there for some experts to have a go at!