Home Theater
Private Cinema Beauty, More Than Skin Deep
Addressing the issues that popular thinking brings to high-end home theaters.
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The Surprise Home Theater
Transforming a playroom in a New York City apartment to a fully functioning home theater in one clandestine month — don’t tell the family!
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Tech Showcase: AV Receivers 2019
What the latest crop of AV receivers is delivering to today’s home theaters.
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Living the Ultra-High Life
Two new ultra-high-end services take the best parts of the commercial theater experience and bring them into the home.
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The State of Surround Sound
The latest on formats and the challenges of installing and selling surround sound systems.
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Mounts and Enclosures Spotlight 2019
Showing support for the things that give us support.
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Installing Solar Theaters
Controlling the power that feeds your systems may be a lucrative move for your business.
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Survival of the Finest
Is the upscale home theater fated to go the way of the wild salmon?
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Case Study: Reaching for the Stars
Cobb Home Innovations brings immersion to new heights with a stellar theater built on the third floor of a home.
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So You Think You Know Kaleidescape?
There is more than meets the eyes and ears with the popular CI choice for home theater content.
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Full Circle Sound
WSDG - Walters-Stork Design Group applies the lessons learned in building world-class recording studios to ultra high-end home theaters.
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A Battle Royale for Home Entertainment
Video game content creators can provide a new dimension to your business.
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Rayva in Reality
Elevated Integration installs a Rayva home theater and gains a valuable new client.
Technology
Projectors and Screens
A look at the latest technology and trends heading for home theaters.
Technology
Tech Tip: Know When to Sell What Projector with Which Screen
Answering these questions will enable you to choose the right projector, in addition to the size, aspect ratio, screen material, and format of your...
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IMAX Enhanced Investigated
Pulling back the curtain on exactly how IMAX and DTS — along with partners Sony and Sound United — plan on bringing IMAX quality...
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Where Do We Go from Here?
Why we need to focus on the high-performance and luxury aspects of our industry.
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Home Theater Sound’s Next Wave
Home theater speakers get a makeover to accommodate smaller spaces and additional channels.
Technology
Home Theater Design in an Immersive Audio World
Some findings from Trinnov's comprehensive Speaker Placement Recommendations design guide
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Fortress Revives Classic ’60s Theater Chair
Drawing upon its rich, 80-year heritage, Fortress Seating (CEDIA Expo booth 3129) is bringing back the Solo model as a reflection of today's design...
News
Rayva Now Offers Flexible Equipment Choices to Simplify Home Theater Sales
Company Now Allows Integrators to Choose the Brands That Go Into Pre-Engineered Home Theater Designs
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Keeping an Eye on Your Systems
Our Industry’s Lack of Set-It-and-Forget-It Equipment, Provides a Prime Opportunity for Remote Quality Assurance and Monitoring
Technology
Locking Down Source Switching and Wi-Fi in a Utah Theater Project
Tym Smart Homes & Home Theaters Installs Luxul Network Solutions for Improved Speed and Reliability for 4K Video Distribution System and Wi-Fi
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Severtson Screens Lowers Home Theater Screen Prices
Company Also Provides Dealers and Distributors with Free Shipping in Continental U.S.
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Metra Home Theater Group Partners with AiN Group
Home Theater and Accessory Technology Now Available Through the Authorized Integrators Network Group
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Firmware: To Update, or Not to Update?
Avoiding the Pitfalls of System Failure From Firmware Updates
Features
How to Maximize Dialog Intelligibility
Dialog clarity is perhaps the most important performance aspect for audio systems, and compromised quality is a very bad thing. But how does it...
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The Challenges of Running HDR Via HDMI
It’s January 6 as I write this, and I just talked to my tech editor, Chase.
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The Source Matters
If you play cheap content, it’s not going to sound good. This is just as important a part of the client education process as...
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Home Theater Yoga Moves
So a client comes to you and says, “I love movies from a lot of different eras, but there are so many different picture...
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The Great Equalizer: The Key to an Ideal Listening Environment
EQ units increase your sales and your client contentment factor. Don’t let fear or ignorance stand in your way, here.
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Grimani Looks to Solve 50 Audio Integration Problems
In an Omni hotel suite during CEDIA in October, Anthony Grimani provided a lengthy explanation of the design process and what makes Grimani Systems'...
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Picking the Right Speakers
My purpose here is to help you pick speakers that will generally sound better in your installations, and will generate more client satisfaction, with...
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Home Theater Checkup Time
It’s still pretty rare for me to encounter an integrator that provides regularly scheduled system checkups. We need more folks to jump on this...
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Trust, but Verify Video
You need to have a systematic approach to verifying the audio and video performance of your installations–using reliable test vectors and documenting the resulting...
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How to Find and Fix Common Audio Setup Errors
Despite our geek-driven desire to impress clients, we often miss the mark.
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Reinvigorating High-End Rooms with 4K, 3D Audio, and First-Run Content
Folks around CEDIA EXPO have been talking about the end of dedicated home theaters.
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How to Integrate Dolby Atmos in a Home
You’ve probably heard all about Dolby Atmos, the new immersive audio format hitting the consumer market.
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The Future of Surround Sound
Say what you will about our industry, but it is not afraid of new technology.
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Get Out There with Your Audio Analyzers and Measure What your Systems are Doing
You’re probably familiar with the Denver Broncos’ story this year: future Hall of Fame QB, record-setting offense, expected to win the Super Bowl by...
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Adding The Excitement of First-Run Movies in Your Clients’ Homes
If you walked the halls of CEDIA EXPO this year, you probably heard some statements like, “Dedicated home theaters are on the decline,” or...
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Tangible Ways Power Conditioning Can Improve Your Installation
Power conditioning is important, but not for the reasons you may be led to believe.
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Proper Documentation at the Start of the Project Makes All the Difference
I am standing in my backyard in disbelief, looking at the partially complete fence that I asked a contractor to build to keep the...
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How Many Subwoofers to Use and Where to Put Them
We need to stop reinventing the wheel where bass is concerned.
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What to Do When Multi-Channel Audio Streaming Doesn’t Work
Streaming video and video on demand (VOD) are quickly replacing Blu-ray, DVD, cable, and satellite as our clients’ preferred methods for acquiring program material....