My first ever home theater.

 

The very first setup was done back in year 2009. Is kind of coincidence , as I went to Harvey Norman on a weekend spotted this kind of home theater set for sale which is one of the entry level Pioneer VSX-819HK. HDMI during those days are still pretty new and this AVR has like 5 HDMI input and 1 HDMI output which is amazing. The AVR came together of course the Pioneer speakers 5.1 including the sub. I remember quite clearly it was like RM3500 for all of this. Mind you that is 11 years ago and that is quite some price to pay. This AVR is one of the earlier with DTS-MA and TrueHD surround sound format. 

Obviously just getting a home theater set without TV , doesn't make sense. Might as well look for one now together hoping for a better deal. Well, I did came across this beautiful plasma screen from Panasonic (P50S10K) which is made in Japan. Looking at it, indeed is really stunning with the black level which is the best of the days. Well it is still the best till today when comes to TV. During the plasma days, Pioneer Kuro plasma is really the pinnacle of TV technology. It is a TV use as reference for many professionals. Unfortunately Pionner didn't make it for the TV race at the end. The KURO tech is finally pass on to Panasonic which is still in use today for their TV.

Back to my shopping, the TV came with the Panasonic Bluray player (BD60) with 2 free discs. The first ever blu ray movie I own is the "Batman Begins". The second disc is "Transformer". The BD60 is really quite the cutting edge BD player from Panasonic which was beating down on Sony, although Sony is the company that created bluray format. 

Got back home and the waiting starts for Harvey Norman to deliver my new toys. It came pretty quickly next day. No setup or installation was provided , so me as a newbie who knows nuts of home theater started my first step towards some crazy adventure. Practically, I was just trying to connecting everything to make sure it works. Internet was not so handy still but I do get some help online and reading the manual. Finally after hours of meddling, it is all done and ready to go. 

I had only 2 movies, so pop in the first one "Transformer". Just watching this movie for the first time on 50" TV is really cool. It was so excited to hear all the 5.1 sound of TrueHD audio for the very first time ever in my OWN HOME......I guess you can see from the picture above it is pretty messy and the cabinet can't even fit the AVR. All this kind of lesson learn through the years later. Ever since than, the journey had never ended till today 2021 and still upgrade is on going. More and more collection of movies added. Next part of the journey will be more exciting and a lot more elaborate. Will share it soon.