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Media rooms

Scope note

Domestic spaces, sometimes windowless, primarily designed or used to hold home entertainment systems as their focus, especially for viewing and listening to prerecorded or computer-based materials, such as videos, music, or games. For domestic spaces designed for high-end audio-video equipment to simulate a theaterlike environment, use "home theaters."

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000179305

Term used for

rooms, media

Equivalent Terms used

media room

Created

13yrs ago

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