Mar 19, Practical Home Theater Guide: Systems Reviews and Home Theater Design

Lots of information at Practical Home Theater Guide: Comprehensive home theater design guides, home theater systems reviews, and installation advice to help you get started. more …

Have You Entered the Fluance Complete Home Theater Contest Yet?

Are you looking to get a new speaker system? Is your home theater receiver not up to snuff? Do you like free things? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions (and who wouldn’t?), and you haven’t heard yet, Fluance has just the contest for you!
Have I piqued your interest? Here’s what [...]

Runco LS-5 Projector

When one thinks of home theater, it’s difficult not to think of Runco. Since 1987, Runco has been at the forefront of home theater video technology. Founder Sam Runco is even credited with coining the term “home theater. ” They are one of a handful of companies that concentrate solely on video products. Their [...]

Mar 16, Practical Home Theater Guide: Systems Reviews and Home Theater Design

Lots of information at Practical Home Theater Guide: Comprehensive home theater design guides, home theater systems reviews, and installation advice to help you get started. more …

The Pros and Cons of Accessing the Internet on a Home Theater

As a result of increased audio and video content available via the internet, there is now a big emphasis in the integration of the internet with the home theater experience. However, there are both advantages and disadvantages to integrating the internet with a home theater system. For more details, check out my article: The Pros [...]

Six Ways to Incorporate the Internet into Your Home Theater System

As a result of increased audio and video content available via the internet, there is now a big emphasis in the integration of the internet with the home theater experience. There are several ways to integrate internet, as well as PC-stored content on your home theater system. For more details, check out my article: Six [...]

Setting Up A Home Theater System For Basketball’s March Madness

March Madness isn’t an official holiday, but it might as well be for dedicated fans of Basketball. March Madness is the name given to the month-long NCAA Basketball Championship culminating in the Final Four match-ups. This year, the Final Four will play on April 3 and 5th, 2010. The entire tournament will be televised via [...]

Big Demand For High-End Surround Preamps

The economy has been in the doldrums for quite some time with many manufacturers and retailers struggling to better position themselves to grab any dollars they can from consumers in order maintain their profits. However, contrary to the downward trends in some areas, sales in one high-end home theater sector seems to be doing quite [...]

Best Buy Scores Exclusive Panasonic 3D Plasma Home Theater System

Everything you need to start watching 3D movies is available now at select Best Buy/Magnolia Home Theater locations for $2,899. The whole package starts with the exclusive VT20 television. According to… more …

Home Theater Term of the Week – Bitstream

A Bitstream refers to binary bits of information (1’s and 0’s) transferred from one device to another.

However, in Home Theater applications, Bitstream refers to a digitally-encoded Dolby Digital or DTS-related compressed audio signal from a source component (such as a DVD, Blu-ray, or HD-DVD player, HD-Cable, or HD-Satellite Box) to a Preamp/Processor (either [...]