Televisions come in a variety of sizes ranging from the corner stand TVs to the complete range of home theater systems. While finding a place to store a normal size TV proves no problem, finding space for your big screen entertainment center may require some elaborate planning.For setting up a big screen entertainment center, you need to first make a list of components and equipment that will be needed. A typical list of components will include the TV, VCR, laser disc player or DVD player, stereo system, and console-based game station.Given the varied assortment of the components involved and their sizes, big screen entertainment centers take up a lot of space in any room – living or bedroom. That means they need to be aligned to any one wall in a room. Apart from the electronic equipment, these big screen solutions also have provisions for books and a computer.This means that these centers can fulfill the relaxation and recreational needs of several people at once and therefore, these entertainment centers become the converging point for entire family. The position of a big screen entertainment center also determines the setting of the entire room.An entertainment center aligned to a wall can become the anchor of the entire room, around which the rest of the furniture such as the sofa, is arranged. The entertainment center and the rest of the furniture of the room should blend aesthetically with the décor and color scheme of the room.In fact, a host of contemporary and traditional designs allow for the TV, DVD player, PC and other peripheral components to blend gracefully together with each other as also with the décor of the rest of the room.All said, television is only one of the many elements of a big screen entertainment center. In addition, you can also place your PC in the entertainment center and use it to download music or video. Yet the TV continues to rule supreme as the biggest home entertainment provider. To get the complete theater sound effect, you can connect surround-sound speaker systems. The sound of these systems varies depending on where you place them.