Comments on: Home Theater Seating: Enough’s Enough

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:51:41 +0000

If it’s supposed to be home theater, why not get real theater seats. I’ve never been to a movie that had oversize, overstuffed leather behemoth chairs.

Get the plastic backed ones with the gum on the bottom of the seat for realism.

By: Real Estate Jim

Real Estate Jim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:10:58 +0000

I agree completely. Unless you’re in the film-making business, it doesn’t seem to make sense to crowd a room with an excess of large theater-style chairs. In fact, at my house, extra guests seems to be comfortable enough sitting in cushioned folding chairs I bought at Sam’s Club!

By: AlenK

AlenK — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:01 +0000

Folding chairs for overflow is a good idea but do you know of some really comfortable ones? Most I have seen/tried would not be comfortable enough to sit in for the length of a typical movie.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:06:17 +0000

No doubt Carlton, I honesty hadn’t even wrapped my mind around a way to describe that so I omitted it. But since you brought it up, not only do you have to factor in the row-gap between the chairs, you have to factor in the row-gap of extended versus fully upright chairs.

Again though, I say if it comes down to overall comfort versus trying to squeeze in another chair for that uncle who only visits once a year, comfort wins.

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:04:37 +0000

I think it’s more important to look at the trade-off of time spent walking behind a tight row of chairs (10 seconds) vs. the amount of time watching a movie (2 hours.) I think all of the chairs have a clear view of the screen and meeting the THX/SMPTE viewing distance specs is more important than having a big aisle.

I have 5 seats in my front row and 4 in the rear row. The entrance to the theater is between the front row and the screen. 95% of the time, we have 5 or less people. The other 5% of the time we have more than 5 people, and I really don’t care if the aisle past the front row is 12″ because it is hardly ever used and people are only in it a few seconds.

Now if the door were in the back of the room and every person had to use the narrow aisle every time, it would be a major pain. I would definitely remove one of the front row seats in that case.