Audio Video Interiors
7 digital home essentials
The digital home is a difficult concept to define. For the most part, it's defined by your budget, but certain concepts remain the same regardless of cost.
We're talking about media and information of all sorts being shared seamlessly around the home, without loss of quality. We're talking style, and we're talking ease of use. [...]
Music and Convenience Combine in Master Bath
Its decor may be reminiscent of the 1950s, but this spacious master bathroom boasts some modern conveniences, including his and hers flat-panel TVs, a distributed music system and a sleek touchbutton control pad on the wall.
The technology complements the luxurious design by giving the homeowners plenty of reason to soak just a little longer in [...]
Original Star Trek Props Anchor Home Theater
Where no man has gone before? Hardly. Gary Reighn had the skills to create his own “Star Trek”-themed home theater. Tony Alleyne transformed his entire apartment to look exactly like “Voyager.”
How could anyone top the Trekkie-themed areas we’ve already seen? Well, Gary Sekulow found a way to add his own “Trek” twist.
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Home Theater Projectors - For “The Rest of Us”
Projectors for those of us who can't always darken our rooms, or just don't want to
There are many truths, in the home theater projector world, some have been:
Each generation of projectors gets better and better.
Prices keep falling and price/performance keeps improving.
There are more projectors to choose from each year.
And for the most [...]
Take your projector outside… build your own Backyard Home Theater
With high gasoline prices, more expensive air-fares, and high theme park ticket prices, getting away for the summer is certainly more difficult these days, especially if you have a family. If you are facing discontent on the homefront because of your inability to take your clan on summer vacation, why not add a little adventure [...]
Acoustical Room Treatment: Treating the Secrets Test Lab
I am sure that just about every Secrets reader has a home theater or hi-fi system of some sort. Expensive, modest, or just basic . . . but something.
After getting all that stuff, a DVD player, receiver, extra power amplifiers, speakers, cables, maybe a projector and screen, you thought you were done, right? Well, [...]
Pull Up a Chair
We received an email from a reader a while back.Mike is designing his new home theater room and he had a simple inquiry: if he is planning to sit 11 feet from his HDTV, should he buy a 50" 1080p plasma or spend a comparable amount on a 55 or 60" 720p plasma?
It's a [...]
Planning Guide: 10 Steps to a Home Theater
Converting an unfinished room into a home theater can be an extremely rewarding project. Your dark and dreary basement, for example, can become a cozy entertainment spot the whole family can enjoy. Plus, it’ll add value to your home.
Transforming an area into a comfortable, enjoyable home theater takes vision, a solid design plan, a [...]
Neat Robotic Flat Screen TV Mount
Designed for open-plan living spaces, the new Skunkworks robotic flat screen mounting system allows you to move your plasma or LCD TV around to different rooms of the house.
The Trak-Kit system comprises of a length of track that suspends a flat screen TV of up 270kg. The screen can then be rotated or moved [...]
