We’ve talked at length about the benefits of having an outdoor home theater. Just about everyone at: Electronic House has covered them in the past, both through product news and installation stories. I’ve even had the fortunate opportunity to experience: outdoor theater on a few occasions—just never in my own backyard. That was about to […]
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The Best Home Theaters for Football Parties
The best football parties are held in the best home theaters. These football fans combined two great passions in their favorite rooms.
Serious football fans will want to watch their favorite teams play in the most impressive room they can. What gets a sport fanatic excited : more than watching their team win? Watching that win on a 120-inch or bigger home theater screen in a room custom decorated with awesome sports memorabilia. The best home theaters […]
Get the GuideCommon Compromises in Home Theater Design, Ideas and Products
Designing a home theater is a hobby based more on guidelines than rules. Go ahead and break them; it's your house.
I won’t say I’m a snob about home theater design or equipment, but I’ve probably been heard to make a comment about friends’speaker systems or a poorly set-up TV now and then. That said, designing a home theater is a hobby based more on guidelines than rules. Often those guidelines are bent to accommodate things […]
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The best way to authenticate the look and feel of a movie theater in your own home is by using a projection screen. A home theater screen, just like the ones used in commercial cinemas, displays images thrown onto it from a video projector that’s placed either in front of it (front projection) or in […]
Get the GuideFront Projection Basics: Your Ticket to Home Theater Nirvana
Two-piece projection systems put the WOW! in home theater.
Flat-panel displays get much of the attention today, but they can’t compete with front-projection systems when your goal is to own a truly captivating home theater. Consider the phrase “home theater.” As obvious as it may seem, home theater is all about creating a theater … in your home. How many times have you gone […]
Get the GuideSmart Home Gallery: Extreme Basement Makeover
If you live in a part of the country where basements are common, consider yourself in luck. This subterranean space can be a prime location to convert into a home theater. However, that’s not to say it’ll be easy. Basements can be a real pain to get into home theater shape. Rob Szewczyk, of St. […]
Get the Guide4 Cool Things You Can Do with Philips Hue Lights
Now that Philips Hue lights have finally added a portable product (the Hue Go), there’s hardly anything you can’t do with them. From the basic original Hue LED smart bulbs, to the light strip, and lamp-like things, the Hue Beyond, the company has covered most of the lighting device categories, and invented a few as […]
Get the GuideWhy You May Want a Dark Home Theater Screen
Home theater screens are no longer simply a big white field. New home theater projectors and multipurpose media rooms call for darker screens.
Home theater screens are supposed to be white, right? So why are so many of them gray? That’s a common question I hear from people looking into their first home theater screen. The truth is that white, gray and even black home theater screens all have their uses, and which one is right for you […]
Get the GuideScreen Innovations Debuts Lower Gain Slate Home Theater Screens
The newest Slate home theater screens are available in sizes ranging from 80 to 250 inches.
The newest Slate home theater screens are available in sizes ranging from 80 to 250 inches.
Get the GuideElite Screens Launches PowerMax Sonic 4K Home Theater Screen
The new acoustically transparent home theater screen works for 4K projectors and multipurpose media rooms.
Elite Screens, a popular manufacturer of home theater screens for both custom home theater installations and DIY home theater projects, launched its PowerMax Sonic screen, designed for professionally-installed home theater and multipurpose media rooms. “The new PowerMax Sonic continues in the tradition of our award-winning A4K acoustically transparent materials, which set a new industry benchmark […]
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