Watch Your Sci-Fi & Horror Movies With Your Headphones On
Digital Streaming Tech Turns Any Set-up Into A Dolby Surround Type Experience
Grab your favorite beverage along with a few party glasses. Here’s a toast to our ever expanding digital media world. It’s never been easier or more affordable to watch, rent and own your favorite shows and films. What’s your dreamer streamer? Got Roku? Apple TV? Chromecast? Maybe you watch on a cell or laptop. However you stream movies and TV, chances are you’ll use those nifty boxes for HBO Max, Netflix, VUDU and the many other content providers.
Cheap, quick and easy to implement for even the most hopeless technological dummy. Magical tech casts its seductive spell on all of us.
Now all of that’s for the joy of watching. How exactly are you listening to all that cool video stuff?
You don’t really care? You never even thought about it much? Whoa. Let’s clear things up. It’s time to face the music - and ultimately listen to it far better.
Clean, crisp, well produced audio is the 2nd most important element after the visuals. Well, maybe having the kettle chips and buttered popcorn nearby too is way up there on your priority list. But if you’re doing loud munching you need excellent sound reproduction. People often forget sound - essential audio magic - plays an enormous role in enjoying our scare fare and awe inspiring, cosmic content.
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With streaming, we now can all listen to much better sound. Connecting an old school wired headset to your cell phone then using your Roku or Apple TV app to listen to your content takes all of several seconds. Using bluetooth can be even easier and faster. No more wires!
But you may likely ask - so what? I own a fantastic, high-end sound system. I love my Dolby 5.1 speaker setup. I spent a ton of scratch on it and took hours or even days setting it all up. Why should I use my headphones?
Because when you listen to even the most familiar and over watched video thing you know backwards and forward, you’ll experience it anew. Trust me. Old movies come back to life. New ones bowl you over with their powerful dynamic range.
Headphone listening may not be as fancy as a surround sound set-up costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars, but I can guarantee when you put on your headphones - even inexpensive ones - you’re going to hear things you’ve never heard before.
Those thunderous moments full of starships warping deeper into the galaxy or phaser blasts whizzing by you will come alive with a clarity unheard until now. Stream Friday The 13th or John Carpenter’s classic Halloween. Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers’ bloodcurdling antics will never feel more real to you than while experiencing their murderous mayhem with headphones providing the audio.
Hollywood gadget gurus and the movie studios always come up with clever ways to seduce our ticket buying, to make their movies new or feel unique. Movie rides, 3D viewing, same day video releasing, home theater - the innovations continue till we’ve grown dizzy by the cavalcade of shiny objects and financial demands. By simply reaching for your headphones while watching a favored oldie or new future classic, you can bring a whole new experience to your viewing, and not overload and crash your strained cash app.