The development of multi-channel audio systems and laserdisc in the 1980s added different dimensions for home cinema. The first known apartment cinema philosophy was installed as a sales tool at Kirshmans furniture store in Metairie, Louisiana in 1974. They built a special sound play which incorporated the earliest quadraphonic audio systems and modified Sony trinitron televisions for projecting the image.

Many Home Theater Seating systems were sold in the Dewy Orleans area in the ensuing years before the first governmental demonstration of this integration occurred in 1982 at the Straw Hat Circuit Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Tribeman of NAD (USA) organized and presented a demonstration manufactured possible by the collaborative effort of NAD, Proton, ADS, Lucasfilm and Dolby Labs who contributed their technologies to demonstrate what a at ease cinema would "look and sound" like.