Home cinema

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 [...]

By Brian For the home theater geeks, here is something you may want to consider especially if you are looking for an alternative home theater receiver. The Harman Kardon AVR-154 5×30W 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver features Logic 7 Cinema and Music surround sound processing in 5.1 channels wit...

By Steve Anderson There’s a whole lot of people out there who crave the “drive in movie experience” of yore.  But Kevin Van wanted it so badly that he built one.  In his backyard. He bought his first projector for inside the house, and it got him to thinking, why can’t I use this projector outdoors?   But that wasn...

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By Steve Anderson You’ve got to feel bad for Paul Hayes.  Guy moved to the United States from England, and you know what that means for a movie buff.  Yes, his entire DVD collection wouldn’t work in any hardware over here. What Barack Obama discovered too late in his gift to Gordon Brown was that DVDs basically on...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl Paradigm, the international leader in speaker design and manufacturing, recently announced its Special Edition product line that boasts the best of both worlds. The limited as well as unique addition to the Paradigm collection includes the SE1, a bookshelf speaker and the SE3, a floor...

By Steve Anderson You’ve got to love anyone who means to tackle the project of building a home theater on a budget.  It takes a lot of restraint, not to mention discipline and sheer grit not to go hog wild and blow every nickel you’ve got on a gigantic plasma TV or the finest speakers or anything like [...]

By Steve Anderson Sometimes there’s one great thing about a home theater setup that makes you sit up and take notice.  And in the case of David Barron’s home theater setup, that certain something special is his very own brand of homemade speakers. When David Barron started to set up his home theater, he got the...

By Steve Anderson One of my favorite old Bloom County strips featured an evening of television around Bloom County, in which the TV invited viewers to purchase a collection of sixties classics.  Their pitch included the line “Who could ever forget such timeless classics as “Freaking In The Purple Haze Wit...

By Steve Anderson Got a nifty bit of product news for you, folks–this week, Best Buy’s running an in-store special where you can get a Sony Bravia forty-six inch LCD HDTV with a Sony HTS-S360 home theater in a box setup and a Sony BDP-S360 Bu-ray player all for the relatively low price of eighteen hundred doll...

By Brian Just like most home theater manufacturing groups, Oppo is now focusing on Blu-ray technology. Oppo, tagged as the Internet’s favorite brand has announced that it will be expanding via the focus on Blu-ray route. They have claimed to have sold out their DVD players and are no longer going to...

By Steve Anderson If you’re hoping to use video on demand and your digital video recorder as a way to avoid advertising in your home theater, don’t.  They’ll find you anyway. A practice called “advanced TV advertising”, which includes measures to insert ads into DVR and VOD recording, is on track to exceed fo...

By Steve Anderson Now THIS is the one that makes today’s whole theme make sense.  Because today, we’re talking about a sweet home theater setup placed in the one place where one probably shouldn’t be–the attic. My mind boggled when I tried to wrap it around this baffling concept, but it was not only possible, i...

By Brian LG Electronics offers another LCD TV options for home theater enthusiasts with the LG 47LH90 LCD HDTV. This 47” LG LCD HDTV features a 1920×1080 native resolution with LED backlighting and a 10-point gray-scale calibration. The 47LH90 includes OTA and QAM HD Tuners and has the standard co...

By Steve Anderson We look at a lot of components around here on Cyber Theater–we look at speakers and receivers and projectors and everything else.  But it’s easy to forget sometimes that one of the most important parts of any home theater is its seating.  You can have the greatest speakers and projector on ea...

By Chris Are you ready for a new Home Theater in a Box solution? LG just happens to have a new HTIB for you, the HB954SP. The device features a 5.1-channel sound system, 1,000 watts of power, five oval drivers, a subwoofer, a BD-Live Blu-ray player, a couple of HDMI inputs and even a dock ready to [...]

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By Brian Mitsubishi unveiled a monstrous 155” OLED TV at the CEATEC 2009 in Japan which should make ego-boasting home theater owners sheepishly shy away. The name of the game is “BIG” in the visual displays and it looks like the Mitsubisi 155” OLED TV has made all other products shrink in shame, at le...

By Brian Panasonic unveils its latest LCD home theater projector in the market with the Panasonic PT-AE4000U. This new LCD home theater projector deliver 1080p images with a 1,600 lumen brightness and 100,000:1 contrast ratio. For resolution, it boasts of a 1920×1080 pixel native resolution wh...

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By Steve Anderson Just when I think I’ve seen the height of bizarrity in home theater setups, along comes something else to change my mind.  Remember when I showed you the bed with the TV in it, and said how great it’d be if it could have speakers added, and WiFi internet so you’d never have to leave [...]

By Steve Anderson Okay, sometimes you’ve got to bring something up not necessarily because of its ability to process or perform its function, but just because of how cool it looks.  And if your PC is your home theater system of choice, then you’ll likely want to take a look at the Grim Reaper USB speakers. Like I...

By Steve Anderson Here’s an awesome bit of news–remember when I was talking about those Funai projectors that could basically be operated like giant touchscreens?  Well, a new item just came out that suggests that these could actually be publicly available in 2010. Now that’s really exciting–they may ha...

By Steve Anderson So I was just reading about a new kind of iPod speaker that’ll work with most any music player, but here’s the really interesting part–they’re FOLDABLE.  Sometimes you’ve got to take your home theater on the road, so it’s good to know there’s an easy way to do that. They’re called Memorex Mi22...

By Brian Cables and wires are certainly among the issues that home theater artists have to deal with and while we have seen wireless speakers have come out, brace yourself for Sony’s new technology. The new tech is the Sony Wireless Power Transfer Technology which can send 60 watts over a distance o...

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By Steve Anderson It hit me just the other day, like the metaphorical ton of bricks, that I have been covering sweet home theater setups for the last few weeks, and most of you, me included, will never be able to own even anything vaguely resembling any of us.  For most of us, if we got our hands [...]

By Steve Anderson Ordinarily, a home theater setup might well start around a piece of equipment, like a speaker system or a certain projector screen.  But with this one, an admittedly sweet home theater setup, it all started with a square of fabric–that tiger striped affair you see at the right. Now, natural...

By Steve Anderson Crestron has had a whole slew of product announcements to come out of the CEDIA show, but two of the unquestionably biggest revolved around the tandem release of the PSPHD surround processor and its companion ProAmp amplifier. The PSPHD is a 7.3 channel home theater surround processor tha...

By Steve Anderson If you’ve ever gone out to a club and been bored to death and beyond, and wished that, somehow, you could stop the deep bass playback of Lady Gaga and her newest insane breakdown and catch a movie instead, then you’ll love this next sweet home theater setup–the graffiti theatre. The biggest t...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl Atlantic Technology recently unveiled the world’s first seven channel sound bar home theater speaker system, the FS-7.0, at CEDIA. Besides, the company also introduced the SB-800, an 8-inch subwoofer, designed for use with the FS-7.0. The FS-7.0 Surround Bar includes three 1-inch soft do...

By Brian Epson unveils another potential home theater projector for people looking to enjoy HD quality movies with the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD. Pegged at an affordable price of $749.99, this projector is another addition to Epsons’ 3LCD home theater projectors which provide a versati...

By Brian Epson has been awarded the 2009 CustomRetailer Magazine EXC!TE award for its new Powerlite Pro Cinema 9100 3LCD home theater projector. The Pro Cinema 9100 boasts of a high contrast ration of 36,000:1 and brightness of 1,800 lumens. It features a 1080p resolution as well as ISF calibratio...

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By Brian The TheaterSeatStore has been known to house majority of the best home theater seating available in the market today. Now, they have offered another great potential home theater recliner with the Pacifico Theater Seats from Palliser Furniture Ltd. Palliser is a familiar name in the home...

By Brian Sony unveils a 5.1 home theater system carrying a slim design receiver to complement its blu-ray disc players. A highlight is the ability of the Sony HT-SF360 home theater system to deliver 1000W of total power that is sure to provide high quality surround sound. For its components, it comes...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl If you are searching for an extremely thin yet wide monitor, then you would definitely love the new super slim 32 inch LT-32WX50 Flat Panel LCD monitor for home theater by JVC. The monitor measures a mere ¼-inch deep and weighs just 12.5 pounds. The super slim profile of the LT-32WX50 Flat Pane...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl To offer top-quality home theater sound, JVC recently introduced two new home theater systems, the TH-BA1 and TH-SB100. Both the TH-BA1 and TH-SB100 systems are 4.1-channel systems accompanied with wireless subwoofer. So, if you do not want to deal with wires running all over your living...

By Brian Little-known LCD TV manufacturer Konka has an LCD TV of its own with the Konka LC47DT68DC, an ultra-thin body designed LCD TV that should fit in perfectly in any modern home theater setup or home. It comes with a dual-colored traceless injection display to complement its red and black curv...

By Brian Let’s get a bit techie for a moment. One thing about home theater equipment is that you may find it cramp if you get the chance to view the inner components of these devices. But all that seems to change soon thanks to a new chip, the HDMI2C1-5DIJ chip that aims to save manufacturers 70% [...]

By Brian Samsung Electronics was visibly busy showing off its new line of home theater projectors and the Samsung A600 projector is certainly something worth checking out. This is the latest in the Samsung A series home theater projector with full HD 1080p performance. The A600 features rounded e...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl Panasonic has announced its first ever 2.1 channel Blu-ray Disc home theater system, the SC-BTX70. Designed with a chic, upright silhouette makes the system an ideal match for a flat panel TV. The innovative design of the system integrates an array of digital media options in its ultra slim...

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By Brian JVC has added six new projectors to its formidable lineup of home theater projectors, offering high native contrast which has become JVC’s trademark for avid home theater artists. Four of these projectors are THX certified and all six boast of exceptional contrast settings critical fo...

By Brian Don’t you just hate it when you have to be creative and neat when it comes to sprawled wires that connect from the main home theater equipment towards the speakers? Some may have mastered the art of cable organization but with this new Zvox IncrediBase cabinet, you won’t even have to worry a...

By Brian It certainly looks like Epson is on the offensive as far as new projectors that can be added to the home theater setup is concerned. Spotted at the CEDIA Expo 2009, Epson has unveiled a couple of new 1080p projectors in the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8100 and 8500 UB. Both feature D7 technolog...

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By Brian For home theater enthusiasts who are seeking better sounds, here is a pair of bookshelf speakers you can add to your setup. The KEF iQ30DA Bookshelf Speaker boast of a 2-way bass reflex speaker to go with its curved cabinet design for lesser internal reflections. The iQ30DA bookshelf speak...

By Brian Everyone is familiar with Sony’s Bravia line and one model that can be considered for home theater setup artists may be the Sony BRAVIA V-Series KDL-52V5100 52-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV. With the demand for reliable displays apparent, this 52” Sony Bravia LCD TV boasts of a 16:9 full HD 108...

By Brian Audio complement for most home theater setups are growing in demand and to make sure that demand is answered, two companies have decided to hook up to deliver a new kind of wireless speakers that are bound to take the home theater world by storm. The new wireless speaker solutions are the Ape...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl Well, if you missed out the lately announced BRAVIA HT-SS360 Theatre system, you can have a look at the Sony’s upcoming HT-SF360 Home Theater. This model comes with floor standers; so you can give your room an aesthetic look by installing the system. What is remarkable in this home theater i...

By Jeff The Zune HD is quickly becoming the perfect addition to any home theater setup. We already know that it supports HD video output, but now recent reports suggest that the Zune HD may also allow for surround sound support. News comes to us from the latest version of Microsoft Expression Encode...

By Brian With digital television upon us, it would be best to be ready to help boost reception with the right kind of amplifiers. And for the people looking for a reliable antenna to aid them, the RCA ANT1450M Multi-Directional Digital Flat Amplified HDTV Antenna (White) should be able to do the tri...

By Brian Getting the best out of your DVDs and enjoy them on your home theater setup may take more than just investing in audio equipment. The key is perhaps on the DVD player you use. Such is the intent of the OPPO DV-980H 1080p Up-Converting Universal DVD Player with HDMI and 7.1CH Audio, aiming to prov...

By Aditi The HomeTheater Girl Boost up your entertainment options with the latest HT-BD3252 blu-ray home theater system from Samsung. Bring home the HT-BD3252 and enjoy image quality beyond imagination. The Samsung HT-BD3252 home theater system offers a total output power of 1000 watts, supports 5.1-channel, prov...

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By Jeff What was one an isolated niche has quickly grown into a valuable asset for many projector manufacturers, pico projectors are on their way to taking the world by storm. While they definitely aren’t up to par with home theater projectors, offerings from Adtec, such as the Bit, are working to...

By Jeff If you’re looking for the ultimate home theater projector on the market today, this may possibly be it. What you see above is Digital Projection’s Titan 1080p-250 projector. The Titan 1080p-250 features a 1920×1080 reosltuion, 5,000:1 contrast ratio and 2,000 ANSI lumens. Digital Proje...

By Chris PrimeSense is a concept technology which will change the way you control the gadgets around your home. PrimeSense is a simple 3D camera which will be used for various appliances like your home theater system or your TV, to scan the room and look for your presence. Using advanced shape recogn...

By Brian For the home theater buffs who simply cannot have enough of good speakers to have for their home theater setup, here comes the Consequence Ultimate Edition from Dynaudio. These new speaker solutions feature the latest Dynaudio transducer technology paired with real-wood finishes and...

By Brian A subwoofer can normally do the trick if you want some attitude in your home theater setup. Subwoofers are known to add more bass and power towards you listening and viewing pleasure but nothing beats the brand that has become familiar in the audio world. Further, the JBL ES150PW is wireless...

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...