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HDTV Antenna Selection Guide

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On the average HDTV antenna in Canada, you have the potential to get anywhere from 4 to more than 20 channels. Some of what you can expect to find in channels over-the-air from an antenna include Canadian favourites like CTV and Global, and the big six American networks which are ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS, and The CW.

PrimeCables’ HDTV antenna selection guide hopes to give some insight into what channels are accessible and what’s possible using your antenna. Now, if you live in a metropolitan area, you’re going to be able to access more channels than if you are living in a rural area. That’s because you will be closer to local broadcast towers. Similarly, if you’re located closer to the US-Canada border, you’re likely to pick up more American stations as well compared to residents further up north.

Now there are indoor and outdoor TV antennas. Indoor antennas work well and can have pretty good range however they are usually not as powerful as outdoor HDTV antennas can be. Depending on what your budget is and whether you want to install something on the outside of your home, one of these options may appeal more than the other.

After you have your antenna in hand and it’s ready to set up, you need to locate where the nearest broadcast tower is. This is where your antenna is going to need to be pointed towards. Thankfully, this information is easily found online. If you have a single tower near you, it’s easy to angle your HDTV antenna in accordance with it. If you have multiple towers and you want to capture stations from both, you may need a multi-directional bay-type antenna. These multi-directional antennas are usually strictly manufactured for outdoor use – another reason why outdoor HDTV antennas often come recommended.

In browsing different antennas, you may see terms like UHF, VHF, etc. In North America, over 75 percent of all over-the-air TV signals are broadcast using UHF signals while 23 percent use high-VHF and the remaining 2 percent uses low-VHF. Keep this in mind when examining the channels which are possible to receive in your area as they will oftentimes indicate what frequency the channel is using.

After you have the right HDTV antenna for the frequencies you want and you know where the broadcast tower, all that’s left to do is install it in an appropriate location and scan your TV for channels. Shop your HDTV antenna with PrimeCables today.

Comparing the Top 2 Projectors in Canada for Home Theater Use from PrimeCables

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Home theater projectors don’t usually come cheap. If you don’t want your projector to cost an arm and a leg, PrimeCables might be able to help. If you’re wondering how, PrimeCables has more than a dozen models to choose from. As a glimpse into what we mean, the top 2 projectors in Canada for home theater use are available here to review and compare. Please feel free to use this as a starting point for considerations on a projector.

 

The PrimeCables Portable

 

The portable LCD multimedia home theater projector from PrimeCables comes with fast, free shipping to anywhere in Canada already included and a price point of $79.99. The most cost-effective home theater projector in our catalogue, enjoy features like a 16:10 aspect ratio, contrast of 1,000:1, a brightness level of 1500 lumens, a native resolution of 800×480 pixels, and a supported resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. If you want to have a projector for your home theater and yet, you only have a small budget, this is absolutely the selection you want to go with.

 

The Epson VS345

 

The Epson VS345 WXGA 3LCD projector is a more expensive widescreen portable projector for high-definition images. There are many advantages to the Epson home theater projector including more accurate color brightness, 3000 lumens white brightness for well-lit rooms, and WXGA resolution of 1280×800. The Epson VS345 is priced at $539.99 with fast, free shipping to anywhere in Canada included. Though not made specifically for home theater use, Epson is a high quality brand well-known to the home theater projector category.

 

Choosing a projector for home theater use can be challenging. For some, they may prefer a monitor or flat-screen. That said, a projector comes with numerous advantages. Create a luxurious, high-class immersive viewing based around an advanced high-definition signal. Finally in affordable territory for Canadians, you can save off projectors with PrimeCables. For gorgeous true high-definition images with no limitation for your home theater screen, a projector and projector screen is where it’s at. The more affordable, under-$100 projector is worth every penny. Particularly for newbies to the projector game, this is a great way to get started.

 

See exclusive deals, discounts, and sales on projectors, projector stands, projector mounts, and projector screens at PrimeCables. For a limited time only, it’s Home Theater Month at PrimeCables. Come and celebrate with us with up to 70% off select cables, devices, and home theater accessories. Find the projector that is right for you and save yourself hundreds off its market price!

Browse Canada’s Top TV Wall Mounts with PrimeCables on Deals and Discounts

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As Canada’s top eCommerce source of home theater accessories, PrimeCables is proud to be able to offer amazing deals and discounts across a wide array of products. Some of the biggest home theater sales includes TV wall mounts, TV stands, ergonomic accessories, indoor and outdoor HDTV antennas, media boxes, streaming devices, A/V receivers, home theater cables, and speaker systems. Browse and customize your own home theater system piece by piece!

 

For so much of us, the focus of our home theater systems will be the positioning of our television screens. For flat-screen TVs you want to position in the most advantageous spot in your home theater configuration, you may wish to browse some of our TV wall mounts. Needless to say, there are plenty of wall mount types to consider. See the PrimeCables full motion articulating wall mount for 37” to 70” flat panel TVs for $42.99, the heavy duty tilting curved and flat panel TV wall mount for 37” to 70” for $16.99, the full motion TV wall mount 17” to 42” for $12.99, the wall mount articulated arm universal LED 13” to 55” slim for $19.99, and the inexpensive, favored choice of the PrimeCables’ angle-free tilt mount with safety lock for TVs 26” to 50” for $5.99.

 

Mounts are great because they provide a presentation that’s akin to going to a movie theatre or watching on a projector screen. Instead of setting up a TV on a stand or table, a TV wall mount can fixate your screen directly to the wall. There, it hangs like a work of art. Then, by positioning it at a tilt or manipulating the angle, a homeowner can eliminate problems like light glare and maximize their very own home theater experience. Fortunately, the basic model is inexpensive at under $6 so even if you’re working under a budget, you can still find a mount. Keep in mind there are also more advanced models with features like articulating arms. The most impressive may be pull-down over-the-fireplace mounts which are extremely appealing to buyers with bigger budgets.

 

If you’re looking for an easy way to give the home theater living room experience a boost, mounting your flat-screen is a simple step that can make the world of difference. Create a more immersive viewing experience while also freeing up space in the home. Browse today some of the best TV wall mounts in Canada from PrimeCables and receive a lifetime warranty!

Should you Buy a Projector and Projector Screen for your Home – a Case Study

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Many Canadian households have what we would call a ‘home theater system’. There’s a difference though between what we consider ‘home theater’ and what we call ‘home cinema’. More high-class, luxury-ridden, and professional, home cinema is much larger and more immersive. To reach a place where you have a home cinema setup, it oftentimes requires a sizeable screen. To get the biggest screen for the best price, many Canadians choose to go without a TV screen and purchase a projector instead.

 

Should you buy a home theater projector – some might say, yes. That said, projectors are often quite costly, especially when you begin searching for ones that can carry 4K signals. At PrimeCables, we think there are some ways to get around the obvious disadvantage of the price tag. Shopping with PrimeCables, we have more than a dozen premiere projector models on discount, in addition to offering ‘free shipping’ to anywhere in Canada on all orders above $49, free returns, and a 1-year product guarantee.

 

PrimeCables works with all of its manufacturers to offer the best possible price on home theater accessories like projectors, projector mounts, and projector screens. Minimizing costs on your projector, you won’t have to overpay on something that’s inferior to a flat-screen. Instead, when you buy a projector through PrimeCables, you’ll receive a high quality, premiere home cinema product affordably priced. Keep in mind a projector can have the same high-definition 1080p video and amazing audio you can receive from a flat-screen.

 

If you enjoy customizing and personalizing home theater products to match your preferences, there’s a lot of modifications you can make with a projector. As a portable product, it’s easy to move around the room to find the optimum viewing position. If you wish, its video size can be modified to both large and small depending on what you need. Using a projector mount, you may fixate it to a location similar to a movie theatre. Lastly, using a projector screen, you can get all those deep blacks, bright colors, and optimum picture design. Just as an example, PrimeCables has both 100” and 108” projector screen portable and collapsible options for a wall or ceiling mount.

 

PrimeCables’ projectors boast impressive resolution and breathtaking imagery. Featuring great color accuracy, connectivity to almost any digital device, and is aesthetically adaptable to every home theater system. If you’re tired of using a TV screen or aren’t able to get the size you want under your budget, a projector and projector screen is highly impressive. Used by home cinema entertainment systems across Canada, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what you’ll find with PrimeCables.

Turn your Living Room into a Movie Theater with a Projector and Projector Mount

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An amazing home theater system that’s affordable, high tech, and immersive is not hard to come by with PrimeCables. If you’ve ever wanted to create the closest thing to a home movie theatre for the living room, an inexpensive projector and projector mount combination is where many start. Though TV screens have their advantages, a projector expands the limitations of screen capacity to accommodate larger, more detailed images.

 

If you’ve always used a television screen, now’s the perfect time to consider a switch to a projector. Be it for a small or large space, a projector can be tailored to that space with high-definition 1080p quality and more. Sadly, many Canadians would never consider replacing their old TV with a projector. Using one though, you may end up re-thinking your entire home theater system. If you end up enjoying a projector, buying an accommodating projector mount and projector screen are a great way to set things up. After you’ve seen a projector’s image, it’s difficult to pass up on the possibility of watching however large or small you want to go.

 

Examining high-end home theater systems in luxury properties, many will notice that these homeowners gravitate towards projectors instead of TVs. If you are looking to accommodate a family sized viewing experience or enjoy having friends over to watch sports, concerts, or live events, a projector’s a pretty cool thing to embrace. Also, it gets around the size of a TV screen. For rooms dedicated to TV viewing, a projector is perfect. Even trying it out on a white wall, you should see the difference. Anything can be used as a projection surface. Even better, connect an existing surround sound system or speaker system, laptops and digital devices, or whichever video source you wish. A projector is very diverse in what it accepts as a source.

 

Projectors come in a wide range of price points. Courtesy of PrimeCables, there’s the portable LCD projector 1500 Lumens for $64.99, the Epson VS345 WXGA 3LCD projector for $539.99, the Epson PowerLite 980W WXGA 3LCD projector for $1,079, and the Epson PowerLite 2040 XGA 3LCD projector for $1,416. Browsing the PrimeCables catalogue, you’ll also find video cables, HDMI cables, projector mounts, projector screens, media boxes, and more. Mix and match your favourite home theater products to create the ultimate theatre setup for your living room. The ultimate home theater setup begins with buying the right projector and projector mount. Shop today with PrimeCables!

See PrimeCables’ Home Cinema Speaker Systems on-sale for Home Theater Use

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Choosing the right home cinema speaker system for your home theater can deliver the absolute incredible audio you’ve always wanted. Imagine a fully-connected speaker system distributed throughout the room, capturing every crucial detail of sound. Though some pay $1,000s to get these type of speaker systems, there are several components via PrimeCables that can be purchased on-sale. Customize your own home theater experience by building around sound!

 

Hot on the heels of a big year for home theater sales, PrimeCables is offering exclusive deals, discounts, and sales promotions on home cinema speaker systems you won’t find anywhere else. Browse speakers, subwoofers, portable speakers, Bluetooth soundbars, speaker wire, digital audio cables, speaker volume controllers, optical Toslink audio cables, and more. Also, all purchases above $49 receive a ‘free shipping’ coupon to anywhere in Canada.

 

Browsing the pages of PrimeCables’ catalogue, you’ll notice an entire range of affordable home cinema and home entertainment products. Regarding speaker systems and sound devices, we’ve worked with our suppliers to uphold the highest home audio standards in Canada. Combining these speakers with the latest in home theater technologies, your next favourite speaker configuration may be right around the corner.

 

Common struggles felt by owners of home theater systems oftentimes are based around the sound. So much attention is paid to video that we forget about the importance of our speakers. Things like missing dialogue on movies, not having enough bass on concerts, getting distortion on audio signals where there should not otherwise be, and more is not unexpected. If this is you, consider shopping with PrimeCables to select the stylish, featured-packed speaker components you know you’ll enjoy.

 

The thing about shopping with PrimeCables is that we recognize every home is different. For example, what you want in a home cinema experience may be slightly different from your neighbor. For this reason, we try to keep our catalogue open to customizations. Currently on-sale, wireless speakers, Bluetooth speakers, floor-standing speakers, bookshelf speakers, surround sound speakers, and subwoofers are all possibilities. Choose to use individual speakers in customized configurations to ensure you’re getting the best bang for your buck.

 

Using home entertainment speakers purchased through PrimeCables, you can listen to TV, enjoy music from streaming services, cast home media, and more. A high quality A/V home theater experience has never been more affordable. Deliver the surround sound you want and tailor everything to your room’s natural dimensions. Soundbars, multi-channel A/V receivers, HDMI cables, and more are just a click away when you shop with Canada’s #1 source for speakers and home theater accessories.

Designing your Ultimate Home Theater Systems by Renovating your Living Room

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The layout of your living room plays a key role in implementing a home theater system. Designing the ultimate in-home entertainment experience relies heavily on what’s possible in your living room. For Canadian households who want to take their home theater system from plain to remarkable, take a look around. There may be opportunities to renovate your living room to make it more conducive to media consumption.

 

For many living rooms, it’s a common practice to see some sort of mass-marketed HD television mounted on a white wall. If you haven’t done so already, using a TV wall mount to suspend your screen in mid-air can establish theatre-esque viewing all ages are sure to enjoy. The next recommendation to step it up a notch is to install and add speakers with either a home theater speaker stand or mount. These are all pretty easy and somewhat inexpensive ways to maximize what’s already available in your living room. For those on a budget, start here.

 

For those who have a little money to spend and who want to really get into the nitty gritty of designing the ultimate home theater system for themselves, a living room renovation might be in the works. Think of your personal style and preferences. Think of the décor you may want to add to the room. Take a look through examples of some high-end luxury media spaces to get some ideas. In some cases, you may wish to put your speakers directly into the wall. In other cases, it may require a custom build to get all the accessories you want in the same area.

 

If you’re working with a compact space like a semi-detached home, townhouse, or condo, customizing one’s media space can assist in delivering an even more immersive, room-filling viewing experience. Consider contacting a renovation company experienced in home theater-based constructions. They may have specific recommendations regarding audio working in the space’s acoustics, the size of the room, how many people the room is intended to accommodate, in-wall options, the possibility of using a projector instead of a TV screen, and more.

 

Leverage your budget and enjoy a well-designed, home theater integrated space. Shop your home theater renovations with PrimeCables and enjoy the lowest prices in Canada on mounts, stands, HDTV antennas, media streaming devices, media boxes, projectors, projector screens, A/V receivers, pro audio, speaker systems, soundbars, HDMI cables, home theater cables, and more!