Home Theater Seating

• Portable home cinemas improved over continuance with pigmentation film, Kodak Super 8 mm film Home Theater Seating film cartridges, and monaural sound but remained awkward and somewhat expensive

• The rise of abode video in the late 1970s almost completely killed the consumer market for 8 mm film cameras and projectors, as VCRs connected to ordinary televisions on the assumption a simpler and also flexible substitute.

Over the line of three days, retailers, manufacturers, and members of the consumer electronics press were exposed to the first "home like" experience of combining a grand quality video source with multi-channel surround sound. That peculiar demonstration is credited with being the impetus for developing what is now a multi-billion dollar business.