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Looking for the perfect gift to get that special someone started in home theater without all the hassle of buying everything and figuring out how to install it? Then a home theater-in-a-box system may be just the perfect gift to give this holiday season. These systems come packaged with ev...

Earlier this year, I reported that Warner Bros had set up an HD-DVD to Blu-ray trade-in/upgrade program which gave HD-DVD owners the opportunity to get Blu-ray Disc versions of the same titles at a deeply discounted price. Apparently, that turned out to be successful, as Warner Bros has j...

The Superb Home Theater wiring solution concept is easy home theater installation. It is designed for the home installer with basic DIY skills, but not only; more info in this review article.

The HT Guys buying guides have become an annual tradition, and something that we really look forward to putting together. Last week we covered TVs, this week we'll do A/V Receivers. We'll break them down into price categories, just like last year, $500 or less, between $500 and $1000, and gr...

By cmosbig You still can watch other DVDs on them. An HD DVD can store both regular and high definition content on the same disc. There are some discs which have a combination of formats; they have DVD formats on one side and HD DVD format on the other. Thus, they enable you to play them on virtually any DVD pl...

The Toshiba 46SV670U is one the new breed of LCD TVs that incorporate LED backlight technology. The type of LED backkight system used here is referred to as the Full Array system. This allows for Local Dimming, which enables a wider ontrast ratio, even within small areas of the sceen (such as...

By Mark Wilson The design is basically one sealed sound chamber filled with enough speakers for an authentic surround sound experience: four, 2.6-inch flat speakers and two, 4.5-inch passive radiator speakers. You'll find a 2x10W Class D amplifier squeezed in that shell as well.

By Steve Anderson If you’re looking for a new television to round out your home theater, then I often recommend looking at LG models as they do a really nice job for not a huge amount of money.  The LG 42LH30 will definitely give you a lot of extra television for not a lot of extra cash. The LG [...]

Get the most out of your HDTV with the Panasonic SC-BT200 Blu-ray Disc Home Theater System. The Blu-ray Disc player section provides Blu-ray Profile 2.0 (BD-Live) capability for access to special added internet-based features available on an increasing number of Blu-ray Discs, YouTub...

Seagate is a familiar name in the PC world as makers of hard drives that are used in PCs, DVRs, and DVD Recorder/Hard Drive Combos. Previously, I reviewed the FreeAgent Theater hard-drive based media player. Now, Seagate has introduced an upgraded model, dubbed the FreeAgent Theater+, th...

We received a great listener review of the Denon AVR-3310CI Home Theater Receiver, so we'll share that with you. We also found a slightly different take on this year's CEDIA show with a few more products to talk about. Then we dive into the ageless debate, what to buy: a Front or Rear Projector...

By Sean Fallon Epson Adds Two High-Performance 1080P Projectors to Award-Winning Home Theater Lineup Epson's Latest 1080P Pro Cinema Projectors Bring Custom Installers High Performing PowerLite Pro Cinema 9100 and 9500 UB Offer New Levels of Image Quality, Detail and Performance

By Mark Wilson If you don't have a home theater PC or a networked console, Netgear's Digital Entertainer EVA2000 can put all those torrents—along with some Hulu action—onto your TV. Connecting to your TV via HDMI/composite and your router via ethernet, the Digital Entertainer can stream a boatload co...

By Sean Fallon Monitor Audio RS6 Front Speakers (2), Monitor Audio RSFX Rear Speakers (4), Monitor Audio RSLCR Center-Channel Speaker, SVSound PC-13 Ultra Subwoofer AuraSound Aura Pro Bass Shakers (6), BASH Subwoofer Amplifier, Berkline 13175 Home Theater Seats (6)

By HT Guys Springboarding off a few listener questions, we get into the nitty gritty of audio codecs, DVD players, Blu-ray players, Receivers, you name it.  How do you get all those things to play nice together?  What happens if a Dolby Digital audio track on your DVD wants to run through your Recieve...

By Wilson Rothman neoHD employs several proprietary audio technologies. Users can take advantage of Yamaha's popular Cinema DSP programs, such as Movie, Music, Entertainment and All Channel Stereo, to optimize movie, TV and sports viewing experiences in systems with 5.1 speaker configurations. Yamah...

By HT Guys An HD picture is only half of the Home Theater experience. To complete it you need a good sound system. On this show we routinely talk about receivers that cost $750 and more which frustrates many listeners who want advanced features without spending a ton of money. The Yamaha RX V565 may be the...

By Iyaz Akhtar Trust in wires Many home theater components need an Internet connection these days.  While you could try to have an all wireless setup, a wired network is more reliable.  Depending on your home’s layout, getting a wired connection to your home theater may not be easy.  Getting ready made cab...

By Thomas J. Norton • May, 2009 We're no strangers to JVC projectors around the Home Theater campfire. We've reviewed several of their models over the past few years. I've been using a DLA-RS1 as a reference since 2007. It isn't perfect—no projector ...

You've spent a lot of money and collected a lot home theater components over the years. With each component upgrade or addition you have another power cord to plug in....

Have you ever wondered how other guys get away with some of the home theater purchaes they make? It seems like they always have a creative way to either get the finance committee to authorize the purchase or to slip it past them like a magician. There's a great blog post from Elemental Designs...

We got a ton of great feedback from our 1080p Projector Options show in January (Episode 349). For today we're reviewing the Mitsubishi HC6500 3LCD projector to make good on the promise we made in a bunch of emails to do more front projection content. Let's face it, projectors rock. Those with...

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By Scott Merrill A 24-bit/192kHz audio Digital to Analog Converter ensures pristine audio playback from all of the latest surround sound formats. The VBR100 provides built-in audio decoding for uncompressed audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, and multi-channel PCM in additiona...

By Mark Wilson The Hunter Concert Breeze fan is half ordinary ceiling fan, half wireless speaker extravaganza. You hook the base station into your audio source of choice and the music is streamed to the Concert Breeze (the speaker is that little circle below the light fixture) via the magic of 2.4Ghz freq...

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By rss@youtube.com (YesWeDoServers) Part 1 of 10 part series of how to hook up a Home Theater 5.1 Surround Sound DVD System. This video covers unboxing and inspecting the contents of your package. Author: YesWeDoServers Keywords: "Home Theater setup" "Paul J. Chavaux" Tweensteeples Added: December 23, 2008

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By Mark Wilson Sony does promise a a few advantages with their Bravia branded item, of course. The first I discussed above, that the player could mount to the back of your set (be it in a not so glamorous way). The second is that, like the Internet Movie Link, the DVD component can hook to the television throug...

By King PowerDVD incorporates support for high-definition audio and video, true 8-channel home theater audio playback, virtual surround sound, as well as complete controls and extra features for DVD enthusiasts. ...

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Apple recently released a firmware update for its AppleTV to add support for HD TV Shows. On today's show we talk about the update and our latest experience with the AppleTV. The latest firmware brings the version to 2.2 and, according to Apple, it promises to provide bug fixes, improve stabi...

By HT Guys CEDIA 2008 Round-up, Day 2: Samsung, Sony (again), Mitsubishi, Blu-ray, Yamaha, Audessey, much, much more! HDTV & HOME THEATER PODCAST Episode #309 / playpausemin volume News: Catch the Fall Premieres on Hulu AVSForum Launches New DVD Series – “Home Theater Revealed”

Onkyo recently launched two 7.1 channel home theater systems HT-S7100 and HT-S6100. Setting global standards in entertainment, the home theater system comes equipped with HDMI audio/video and ensures 1080i video upscaling. "These systems are a simple, foolproof, and extremely cost-...

The HTZ373 system has it all, from DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro LogicII built-in decoders to digital AM/FM tuner. Further in the array are- PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan; GigaByte Music; 1080p DVD upscaling, front stage surround and dual center speakers. The lavish product supports wide r...

By Brian Lam BUENA PARK, Calif.—Yamaha, the innovator in home theater and digital audio and video reproduction, today unveiled the YSP-3050, the latest in its award-winning line of Digital Sound Projectors which focus audio signals into precisely controlled and directed "beams" that provide tr...

Today we've decided to take a little walk down Home Theater memory lane. The last couple years have seen some significant changes in home theater technology, and we've seen a few devices go extinct. A few are still on the endangered species list, but will probably be gone very soon. We'd like t...

With Electronic House Magazine announcing their 2008 Electronic House of the Year awards, and Kobe Bryant winning the NBA MVP award, we thought it fitting to announce some sort of recognition ourselves. For the first time ever, we've decided to declare some 'Home Theater Heroes.' They ar...

Today we discuss what DLNA is and what it can mean for your home theater system. DLNA stands for the Digital Living Network Alliance and began in 2003 when a group of companies came together to create products that worked together. Today, there are more than 250 companies in the alliance.. They...

Many of us want to make sure that we are the most efficient we can be in how we use the resources we consume. One concern that has come up in our email inbox lately is all the power that is consumed by adding so many new home theater gadgets. We're using bigger TVs than ever before, more surround sou...

It's pretty clear by now that Blu-ray won the high definition video disk war. By the end of this year HD-DVD will be a distant memory and those who want to watch High Definition movies will need a Blu-ray player. There are a bunch of options out there for those in the market, and the Sony PlayStat...

By matt buchanan At 250 watts (RMS), the 3.1 channel HT-CT100 unit includes a sound bar and separate subwoofer, which delivers realistic surround sound using Sony's S-Force PRO Front Surround Sound technology eliminating the need for rear speakers. The system will be available in March for about $300.

Most of us believe that what color you choose to put on the walls is a decision that should be left firmly in the hands of the aesthetics committee. But according to an article from the online version Electronic House magazine, the home theater enthusiast may want to weigh in on the decision. I...

By info The Studio Series includes the iHT8817DT DVD Home Theater System with 5.1 surround sound, an on-board slot-loading HDMI DVD player and a motorized iPod docking drawer. This fully self-contained home theater system will be available in October and features the first ever SRS HD4 for home...

By Brian Lam Built in HD-DVD drive: The external was a great upgrade; a consumer-affordable, hedged bet on an untested tech. Well, both Blu-ray and HD DVD are entrenched. And a special edition Xbox for the home theater should have the format of choice inside. But while I'm wishing and asking, let's make i...

By Mark Wilson Through HDMI, the Onkyo takes full advantage of the new high-resolution audio formats available on Blu-ray and HD DVD.(4) The [Denon] TX-SR674 does pass Dolby Digital, DTS, and linear PCM (LPCM) soundtracks via HDMI. LPCM compatibility means you can get the uncompressed HD-DVD or Blu-r...

By Charlie White If you can follow along with these alphabet-soup model numbers, Sony's DAV-HDX500, DAV-HDX267W and DAV-HDX265 are even lower-end home theater systems with receivers and speakers in a matched set. Sony calls them Bravia because they're designed to resemble the styling of the company'...

By johnb Why fritter away those warm summer months inside when you can set up a full home theater on your lawn? This About.com article discusses everything you need to create your own Bedrock Drive-in right in the comfort of your West Nile Virus Mosquito infested yard. You'll need a few sheets, a proj...