Home Theater

Baumeister Electronic Architects brings 90-year-old former summer cottage into 21st century.

They call this 16×9 thing that we get on DVDs, plasma screens, and many projectors today “widescreen.” But you ain’t seen nothing yet! Imagine...

Catching up with products and technical advancements that will affect your business.

RGPC's grassroots approach to selling its parallel power delivery concept has helped it gain respect in the home install market.

Any home theater system needs to be calibrated, but do you really know all the steps involved?

The world has many reference points: “Hotter than hell”, “colder than a summer day in San Francisco” and “faster than a speeding bullet.” Our...

Hospitality legend MGM Grand has joined forces with manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to provide custom electronics for the Skylofts at MGM Grand, a new...

Some technologies have flown under your radar since CES. But when the do surface they will have an impact on your business.

Its been coming for the past 10 years. It all started in the mid 1990s with a few convergence products that combined multimedia capabilities...

A reasonable home theater experience really needs a dedicated room.

Even with all of the attention given to sending audio, video and data through the air, it will be a very long time, if...

Custom A/V Project Recalls Golden Era of Cinema

These days, subwoofers are studded with controls, inputs, selectors. I think its all about keeping up with the Joneses, and thats a really bad...

Dont Get Disconnected When You Eliminate the Connections

How Does the CI Business Deal with DVD as a Must-Have and a Commodity Product at the Same Time?

In last months column, we covered a lot of really technical stuff about speaker directivity and examples of directivity in some typical speaker designs....

The problem design is that it is quite intangible. Which is why it is a challenge for custom installation firms to charge money for...

Now is the time to consider what your vendors will try to convince your customers to place under the Christmas tree this year.

The impact of recent Federal regulations is already beginning to take hold.

I just had an extensive debate with a customer over front speaker placement for a home theater. He couldn’t believe that speakers mounted in...

Standard, everyday luxury brands are so yesterday. Today, consumers define luxury as a version of something that is customized for their unique needs. That’s...

What do NAB and E3, two seemingly diverse shows, have in common?

Acoustics play a vital role in the quality of a home theater.

One thing is for certain: bass sells.

Video calibration is a relatively easy service to perform, and the payback for both your client and yourself is substantial.

Have you ever noticed that lip sync seems a little funky on today's plasma or fixed-pixel projection display systems? You are right; lip sync...

Even though it may look like HD technology is getting more comprehensive, the plethora of choices and configuration options still make it too complex...

The similarities between coaching a Super Bowl winner and managing a successful home theater project are striking

New plasma and flat-panel display products just don't jump on the wall and secure themselves. To take care of that, you will need a...

Have you ever watched the pros at the Amp Toss during the annual Installer Olympics at CEDIA EXPO? They grab a 78-pound metal box...

As business gets more and more complex, doing "seat of the pants" calculations of everything from room acoustics to project pricing is less likely...

As we look at the events surrounding this year's CEDIA EXPO, I am reminded of an interesting comment made by a participant in one...

As a prelude to the selling season, it is appropriate to describe what is becoming a red-hot product category on a number of fronts:...

You have designed, installed, debugged, and verified proper function of all components of a full-blown high-end multichannel audio system, and you are ready to...

In the more than a decade since the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Assocation (CEDIA) was founded, the industry has successfully convinced tens of...

Last month's E3 Expo in Los Angeles provided some interesting news for the world of video same consoles, and for once that news pertained...

Despite the doldrums in the consumer electronics retail market recently, one category produces standout--if not record--sales each month: DVD. At the same time, however,...

Early last month, Klipsch Audio Technologies announced a bold new distribution strategy that includes ending relationships with two key dealers and adding a major...

If last year's post-CES sentiment was for the industry to proceed with caution, this year could be summarized by saying it is time to...

Continuing a trend from last year, the widespread adoption of DVI/HDCP (Digital Visual Interface with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) on DTVs and high-definition set-top...

While a percentage of the country's more affluent homeowners prefer to simultaneously stay at home while going to the movies in a purpose-built space,...

Home Theater Sorting Out the Final Details of Your Theater Tuning Process In this final installment of the...