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Home Theater Week Case Study: The No-Compromise Cinema
JBL Synthesis powers a world-class home cinema built from the ground up for reference-level performance.
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Home Theater Week: A CEDIA Smart Home Award-Winning Theater
A look at Cantara’s award-winning project from last year, plus advice from the company’s president and other CEDIA Awards insiders.
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Home Theater Week: Nailing the Space Planning Early
The first, most important rule in private cinema design is simple: Get the space right from the start.
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Home Theater Week: From Aspiration to Accountability – Private Cinema Comes of Age
Integrators turn their attention toward performance verification and clarity in product specs.
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Sports in 4K HDR With Immersive Audio
Sports offer the opportunity to bring people into the home theater. Here’s a rundown of which services are currently providing the best video and...
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Rethinking Reference Level in Residential Audio
A new white paper reveals that the theatrical reference level is not a universal playback target for domestic spaces.
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What Is the Value of Luxury?
A guide for the distinguished integrator, designer, and private cinema consultant to defining, delivering, and articulating value.
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New Tech Week Review: Sony BRAVIA 8 II QD-OLED and BRAVIA Theater Quad
After living with the BRAVIA 8 II and watching hours of real-world movie and broadcast content, this display earns its “King of TV” crown.
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Home Theater Week: Managing Great Expectations
All source material is not created equal, and could have clients thinking their sound system is not performing as well as it should be.
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Home Theater Week: Sony’s Cinema-at-Home Vision
A discussion on the current state of the company’s home theater offerings and where they are going.
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Home Theater Week: Convenience, Comfort, and Community
Certified Sounds helps to create a smart compound on Maui that provides refuge and support in the wake of the August 2023 wildfires.
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Home Theater Week: Demos That Are Designed to Dazzle
Why Trinnov decided to create original trailers that offer a perfect immersive experience.
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Home Theater Week: The Ultimate Dual-Purpose Home Theater
Cobb Home Innovations creates a private cinema that doubles as a presentation space for the owners and their employees.
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Total Immersion
An unused basement is transformed into a world-class home theater — and more.
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The Two Types of Luxury
You need to know which of the current perceptions of luxury your client is using.
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A Luxury Private Cinema State of Mind
A look at the top trends and technologies that are at play in today’s high-end home theaters.
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Home Theater Week: Home Theater to the MAX
Though currently light on content, offering IMAX Enhanced can be great way to differentiate your luxury home cinema business.
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Better Than Guessing
Eight rules of thumb in addressing the most common topics covered in a home theater meeting.
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The Rise of the High-End Video Wall
How DCI and other features put video walls on the forefront of the luxury AV market.
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Navigating the Private Cinema Evolution
A deep dive with Ryan Brown, maestro of private cinema design.
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Simplify Your Work, Not Your Theaters
AES67 is your secret weapon in the quest to streamline Audio over IP for high channel counts.
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Home Theater Week: Rethinking Home Cinema Case Studies
Tales of teamwork and the realization of a client’s private cinema dreams can be a powerful sales tool and raise awareness for our services.
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Home Theater Week: The ADI Global Home Theater Product Guide
Check out the industry distributor’s best-selling home theater equipment.
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Home Theater Week: Stunning Theater, Simple Control
Cobb Home Innovations designs a high-end home theater that answers the owner’s demand for smart, easy control.
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Home Theater Week: The Free-Rein Theater
A valuable client gives Cactus Sight & Sound the creative freedom to build a designer-pleasing home cinema.
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Get Centered
Where to place the center-channel speaker when you can’t place it behind the screen.
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Luxury Week: 6 Great Demo Movies for Luxury Home Theaters
Cineluxe picks a half-dozen films released in 2022 that can show what your high-end installs can really do.
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Luxury Week: Are You Experienced in Selling Luxury Private Cinema?
The process of selling true luxury home theaters is not the same as sales in any other market.
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A CEDIA Expo for the Cinema Connoisseur
We were finally able to gather as a community, but are some key home theater players being left out of the conversation?
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Home Theater Week Review: Sony HT-A9 Wireless Home Theater System
The HT-A9 offers a completely different look, design, and flexible installation that might make it a compelling alternative to a soundbar install.
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Home Theater Week: Elevated Expectations
Proper speaker elevation in an immersive sound system needs to consider all the speaker groups in the room.
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Home Theater Week: 10 Tips for Designing a Small Home Theater
The right seats, screen, and other accessories can make all the difference when building in tight spaces.
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Home Theater Week: 5 Home Theater Trends in 2022
Personal cinemas continue to be at the top of clients’ wishlists — here is what they are asking for.
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Case Study: Small Room, Extremely Large Screen
Two installation firms create an epic home theater with a 324-tile LED video wall, $500K worth of video equipment, 200 amps of protected power,...
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Case Study: A Recent Retiree’s Dream Room
Bravo AV breathes new life into a New Jersey home theater with Meridian Audio speakers and processing.
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Building the Best Team
It takes an incredible amount of talent and professionals to create the right private cinema experience.
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Luxury Redux
What’s in a name — true luxury service needs a clear message to separate itself from ‘pop culture’ luxury projects.
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So, How Is the Home Theater Business?
Home theaters are doing well, but they should be doing so much better.
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5 Home Theater Trends Shaping the Industry
Dedicated home theaters are back by popular demand. Here’s what’s causing the revival.
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A Theater Worth Waiting For
Building a long-planned, commercial-level-quality Dolby Cinema in the home of Dolby execs.