Putting together a home theater that
suits your particular needs takes time and represents a significant investment.
But whether you opt in for a professional installation service to do it all for
you, like California’s #1 Custom Installation/Smart Home Integrators for the
past 16 years, Just One Touch), or decide to set up the various
components on your own, keeping them secure is sensible and necessary. And by
making sure your home theater is safe, you're also ensuring the
safety of your home (which is where the home theater “lives" after all).
Here are a few suggestions:
Tethering
Many home theater's have computers or
hard drives working as servers to stream content through the home network.
Often there will be what is called a security slot on the computer/hard drive
(or laptop). This allows for a security cable to be inserted that can then
tether the device to an immovable object so it can't be taken. While such a
security slot can not be found on the majority of the components that make up a
home theater, there are security kits that can add locking capabilities to the
devices (requiring an invasive gluing of a plate to the device first).
Out Of Sight
Making the components of a home theater
less obvious is another way to insure their safety; a 4K Blu-Ray player can be placed inside a cabinet, or an AV Receiver can be inside a shelf, rather than
having the two exposed to sight. In these cases, this can make controlling them
through an IR (infrared) control more difficult. The solution: kits that will
extend the IR signal so that the devices "see" the IR signal coming
from the remote. Mounting a TV onto the wall, while the opposite of
hiding it, will also make it less attractive for being removed because of how
its been mounted.
Security Systems and Cameras
There are portable and non-invasive home
security systems that work through the WiFI home network, and which enable
monitoring of the home theater, along with other areas of the home. At
its simplest, a WiFi-enabled camera can be set up to monitor the home theater
area and viewed remotely when the person is not at home. Other systems allow
for automated reports and messages to be sent when the camera detects motion.
Used singly, or in combination with WiFi-enabled home security systems, the
home theater can be protected at a minimum cost compared to what the cost was
for assembling the various components. And the safety of other areas of the
home can now be protected as well.
The idea behind home theater security is not just to protect what
has taken you so much time to put together, but to insure the piece of mind of
your home as well. So the choice whether to do this or not is yours.
