Spinning floor and retractable doors highlights of media room makeover
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Home Automation Roundup
Your smart home starts with a good list of home automation options
One of the biggest challenges of adding technology to a home is finding and comparing the many options available. You can scour the Internet for hours and still leave scratching your head. While the selection of home automation systems may not be as immense as stereo speakers or smart TVs, it’s still impressive … and […]
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Motorized Shades: Stylish Shading
Window coverings are a major design consideration in every new home or remodeling project, just as much as furniture, flooring, and walls. With thousands of unique combinations of colors, textures, weaves, and types of shades, you’re probably going to spend a fair amount of time deciding what fits your home’s decor and style best. So […]
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Get Your Outdoor TV and Outdoor Speakers Ready for Summer
No backyard is complete without awesome A/V. Here are tips on how to plan your system.
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Screen 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.
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Where and Why to Use a Lighting Control System
With home control systems and preprogrammed scenes, you can match your lighting to your mood.
With home control systems and preprogrammed scenes, you can match your lighting to your mood.
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Features of the Best Home Theater Projectors
Picking the best home theater projector for you project requires taking your complete room and screen into account.
A home media room may have a big TV and a soundbar, but a home theater, a real home theater, has a projector and projection screen. Home theater projectors can be based on one of several different technologies (DLP, LCoS, SXRD, LCD) and used different light technologies or lamps. When selecting the best home theater […]
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Theo Kalomirakis Talks Home Theater Design, Lighting and Automation
We spoke to Kalomirakis at Crestron’s Design Showroom and asked him about common mistakes, importance of automation and how he approaches design.
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Two New Home Theater Screens from Stewart Filmscreen
New Stewart home theater screens provide more flexible options for home theater design.
Stewart Filmscreen, one of the leading makers of home theater screens for elite and custom theaters, launched two new products sure to please home theater designers and owners. The first is the LuminEsse, a rigid front projection screen (not to be confused with StarGlas, Stewart’s rigid rear projection screen material), which features an edgeless design […]
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This new super high-resolution standard promises smoother, more lifelike images on your big screen.
Just as 4K TVs (also called Ultra HD) are making a big impression on flat-panel TV buyers, 4K projectors are sprouting up, albeit more slowly than TVs, for people interested in a really big, cutting-edge viewing experience in their home theaters. Still, it’s a trend worth looking at, as it can take your home theater to a new level of sophistication.
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