Home Theater

Every year right after Labor Day, the Consumer Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) holds its annual Expo. As one of the premiere trade shows for the home systems industry, the CEDIA Expo serves as a launching pad for innovative new products and systems for the smart home. Many of these introductions focus on home […]

Maybe your media room is bathed in lots of natural light. Then again, it also gets really dark when you draw the shades and turn off the light fixtures. Sometimes you like to watch movies in a widescreen format; other times, consume video in a more squarish HDTV format. If you find yourself bouncing back […]

A popular trend in home theater design is incorporating the colors and memorabilia of a favorite football team. The two theaters profiled below scored the Gold and Silver awards during the Electronic House Home of the Year awards content held recently. You can see more winners here, here, and here. The Gold winning space was […]

Each year, Electronic House selects Home of the Year award winners from entries submitted by home systems integrators from across the globe. The following three home theaters were bestowed Silver and Bronze awards for their quality craftsmanship and A/V excellence. Use these and other Home of the Year projects as inspiration when designing your own […]

Home theater seating should stay in the home theater, right? Maybe not. The owner of this lavish 6,000-square-foot Las Vegas home was so pleased with the Fortress home theater seating in his custom-designed media room, that he asked the home theater designers from Eagle Sentry to add it to his great room. Cory Reif, Eagle […]

The three models of the new Q-Series floor-standing loudspeakers recently launched by James Loudspeaker can be built-to-suit the design of your home theater. In addition to three standard models, Q-Series speakers can be custom sized and finished to meet the exact needs of any media room environment. Leveraging the technology in James’ flagship BE-Series in-wall […]

Somewhere there’s a hardcore Batman fan playing all the movies in the series on repeat in his Dark Knight themed home theater, designed and built by Netherlands-based integration company Beter Beeld & Geluid (Better Sound & Vision). “The best compliment for any experience with watching a movie is being completely transported to a world you […]

Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and other immersive surround-sound technologies have made movie-listening even more realistic by adding height channels to home theater audio. You not only hear a jet move across the room from left to right, but from above your head. In the past creating this experience required placing speakers in the ceiling or speakers […]

New York integration firm Robert Allen Multimedia recently installed an Elan-controlled Dolby Atmos home theater into a Westchester County home. “For this room, our clients wanted the ultimate everything,” says Robert Allen Multimedia’s Robert Ainley. “From the one-touch Elan control, 4K projector and Dolby Atmos sound processing to the custom-designed seating, starlight ceiling and ground-lit […]

Dish Network is coming through on its promises by officially launching Amazon Alexa voice control for its Hopper and Wally set-top boxes (STBs), as well as Dish Anywhere remote viewing options on Amazon’s Fire TV. Customers with a Dish STB and an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot or Amazon Tap can now watch hands-free TV with […]