Convert a Tablet or Smartphone into a Remote Control

Tablets and smartphones have more and more clawed their way into your home theater. Newer models are affixed with HDMI ports that make streaming movies to your wide screen HDTV a standard feature. One area that has been continuously tinkered by developers is the universal remote control. So far, this multi-tasking feature comes with a […]

What Makes a Home Theater/Sports Bar

If you have done your fair share of pub crawling, it may be time to merge the sports bar into your home theater. You only have to put on your favorite jersey and then enjoy watching your team without having to step out of the house. One downside, however: your friends may not want to […]

Add 3 Ryan Seacrest Touches to Your Home Theater

To bring in a celebrity-approved home theater design into your basement, you need not be a host of an enormously popular TV show, rule the airwaves or produce a string of reality shows. You can just sneak a peek into American Idol fixture Ryan Seacrest’s elegant but cozy crib to take a few hints on […]

Why Give Satellite TV a Chance

Once you are are happy with your home theater design, the next item to look into is how you can make most of your widescreen TV. The usual routes would be to hook up with a cable network, subscribe to on-demand movie-streaming companies like Netflix or connect your TV to a DVD or Blu Ray […]

4 Areas People Skimp in Home Theaters

The jury is still out there on what equipment makes or breaks a home theater. Not every homeowner drooling over a Steinway Lyngdorf, however, can afford to deck out their living rooms with the finest. For most of those whose budgets have been stretched as far as they would go, a compromise is often the […]

Build a Rosie O’Donnell-style Home Theater

Rosie O’Donnell certainly knows her home theater. Inside the recently built brownstone that the talk-show host purchased in the upscale neighborhood of the Windy City, nestled one of the reasons why she snapped up the house. Its entertainment hub, or hubs since other rooms are outfitted with wall-mounted flat screens as well, would make anyone […]

Can Tablets be Mini Home Theaters?

Granting you adore every bit of your home theater design, you cannot be a true video gamer, movie freak or audiophile if you have not, at the very least, given the tablets like the iPad, a second glance. Here is how it measures up to your home theater: Sound When it comes to sound, the […]

How to Sort Through HDMI Cables

There are certain aspects in home theater design that may not dazzle you as much as 60-inch plasma TV does but will be so nifty and valuable that you will wonder how you managed to live without it. One such item are the popular HDMI Cables (High Definition Multimedia Interface). If you have not heard […]

4 Quick Ways to Streamline Your Home Theater

Once you have rounded out all the home theatre systems you need, you will soon notice that the once-empty space you had is now cramped with gadgets. While the clutter may not be what you had in mind when you dreamed up of the room, it is an inevitable result if you are intent on […]

How Surround Sound Can Enhance Your Home Theater

Those who opted to pass up investing a surround sound system for their home theater must be thinking that they can make do with their TV’s built-in speakers. What they miss out is that sound quality that will take their choice of entertainment, be it in watching a Batman sequel, playing the latest release of […]