If you've grown tired of going to cinemas where there are a lot of people who make noise or forget to close their phones, or not, but it is a rainy day and you just do not want to get out of the house, you can sit there on your sofa and watch whatever you feel like watching. What is better than a sitting in your own apartment, after a hard day's work, ready to watch a movie with the family or your friends? The same goes with some good music, listened in the silence of your private home, because that is the only way you can listen a piece of art or you are just being selfish and do not want someone else to hear that great song! The possibility of choice is very diversified.

The home audio systems usually refers to any audio electronics that can be used indoor or outdoor, such as surround sound and home stereos. Home audio does not usually include standards such as built-in television speakers. They have become a very known and useful piece of technology using rather accessory equipment, which may be intended to enhance or replace standard equipment, such as standard TV speakers. The most popular audio device is the surrounding sound receiver, because it can reproduce a movie sound very well, giving a real cinema experience; thus, the primary field of home audio is home cinema.

A home cinema or home theater is a theater built in a home, in order to mimic or exceed a commercial theater performance and feeling. This audio system is a home entertainment set-up that try to give the feeling that the person watching the TV is in a cinema. Also, there is the "home theater in a box", shortly HTIB, an integrated home theater package that brings a DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc player and multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surrounding sound decoder, radio tuner, and so on), connection cables, a low-frequency subwoofer, speaker wires, a remote control, a set of five or more surround sound speakers (or more rarely, just left and right speakers) together. We can also pick an audio-video receiver or a front video projector and projector screen. Personally, because I am with the computer all the time, I would choose a Home audio PC (HTPC), a convergence device that puts together the functions of a PC and a media center software. Like a HTPC, the media center either refers to the utilization of a computer or to a personal computer software, both of which being adapted for all sorts of media (music, movies, photos etc.).One can even have a home audio system in the backyard, but that depends on the space available. According to that, it may be a temporary version with foldable screen, a couple of speakers and projector or a or a permanent outfit with huge screens and audio set up poolside. This system is very popular with barbeque and pool parties, due to its nature. Some people took the idea, a of the backyard theater and they have constructed mobile theaters which can play movies in open areas. Usually, these require a powerful projector, a laptop or DVD player, outdoor speakers and/or an FM transmitter to broadcast the audio to other car radios.

For such a special cinema, special chairs were called for. Home audio seating is made of chairs specifically engineered and designed for viewing movies in the house. The chairs have a cup holder built into their armrests and, between each seat, a shared armrest. Some seats have kept the movie theater-style, which features a flip-up seat cushion. They may have additional features like snack trays, tactile transducers (better known as "Bass Shakers") which augment or substitute for a subwoofer, or, depending on the model, electric motors to slope the chair.

Home audio system first appeared in the 1950s, when Kodak 8 mm film (Pathé 9.5 mm in France) became affordable.The first home theater was projected with a portable movie projector, and the system was projected on various areas.  Usually, they were used to show home movies of family travels and celebrations, but also private wangler films. The special home cinemas were called screening rooms at the time and were outfitted with 16 mm or even 35 mm projectors for showing commercial films. They were usually found in the houses of the rich. Portable home cinemas became better in time with color film, Kodak Super 8 mm film cartridges, and monaural sound, but they still remained expensive. In the late 1970s, home audio systems have risen, tearing down the consumer market for 8 mm film cameras and projectors, because VCRs connected to TVs turned out to be a simpler substitute.