Even the architects behind the Death Star have nothing on the home theater design skills used in these spaces.
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Ferrari-inspired Home Theater Combines Muscle and Style
This custom home theater is turbo-charged with top-line audio and video equipment.
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Ceiling Lights Add a Splash of Color in This Home Theater
Controllable ceiling lights set a colorful backdrop for this 400-square-foot home theater system.
Like a black hole, but without the nefarious connotations, this unusual and eye-catching 400-square-foot home theater draws the homeowners in for countless hours of high-style, high-tech entertainment. Along those lines, the visually interesting and innovative “vortex” ceiling served as inspiration for the entire theater.
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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 […]
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Two Subwoofers Balance Bass In an Open-format Home Theater
The owners of this Atlanta home theater had a couple of unique challenges, the biggest one being the open-nature of their room. The theater area is adjacent to the home’s main living area and the couple wanted to keep it open to allow guests to easily move between the spaces. Plus, they just like the […]
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Home theater packs in 30 speakers and 14 subwoofers for 3D surround sound effect.
Each year the Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) honors several home systems integration firms for their high-level of technical expertise and quality craftsmanship. The project profiled received awards in 2014 : for Gold Technical Design Level V and Best Overall Home Theater.: Audio often takes a back seat to video during the design […]
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Room with a View
Selecting a video projector and screen is easy if you know what kind of viewing environment you’re trying to create and in which room you plan to install the gear. For example, if you’ll be adding the equipment to a dark, dedicated theater, just about anything will work well. However, a completely neutral screen like […]
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The 10 Toughest High-Tech Hangouts and Their AV Systems
Some guys love power tools. Some love cars. Some are happy with a comfy chair, a remote and something to nosh on. Then there are those who need to go above and beyond—to create a space that most men only dream about. So what’s a man cave anyway? Today, we call these spaces “man caves.” […]
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How to Pick the Best Home Theater Screen
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 […]
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Light Matters: Tips for Maximizing Your Home Theater Projector’s Performance
We talk a lot about home theater projectors–how bright they are or what kind of contrast ratio they offer, but the projector is just the device that delivers the light. There are other factors that help ultimately determine the picture experience, including the home theater screen, ambient lighting control and room characteristics. Here are some […]
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