DIY Home Theater Acoustic Panels

I was searching for some information about doing my own acoustic panels for my home theater. While searching I came over a few good videos on YouTube detailing the build of these kind of panels.

Why do you need Home Theater Acoustic Panels?
Obviously, as the name implies, home theater acoustic panels is helping in the audio department somehow.

The main job of these panels is to reduce the sound reflection of walls, keeping the sound-waves from bouncing back and forth, which can in some circumstances, reduce the clarity of the sound-waves. (more…)

5 Must Have Home Theater Accessories

So you’ve just setup your home theater and are looking to enjoy the afternoon watching your favorite films and shows in it with your family.

However, a home theater can sometimes be boring when it becomes too simple.

Though a state-of-the-art large widescreen LCD television with high-end sound systems mounted on a sharp and modernistic display stand is enough to call it a home theater, there are still some options to add onto the room or zone for those who have smaller/looser budgets.

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What Does 1080p Mean?

In order to offer the best picture quality and crystal-clear image display, the new ranges of high-definition TVs come with an array of high-quality programs and latest technology-based features. With high resolution up to 1080p, 3D technology and other high definition features, the new models in HDTV are well-equipped to offer some outstanding experience to all the viewers.

While you watch your favorite TV show, event or movies, you will certainly have a stunning experience. So those looking for buying a HDTV in near future can surely consider checking out the various models of 1080p televisions. (more…)

Home Theater Furniture

Entertainment is now a mandatory part of our lives. And some of us prefer to have a home theater system in our homes to enhance the entertainment experience. It is important to choose our home theater furniture and accessories carefully so that we enjoy the prospect of using our home theater system as well as compliment the investment by quality enhancing accessories. (more…)

How to sound proof a home theater room

Why sound proof your home theater?

To be able to get the most out of your home theater room, as well as protect the environment around the room, eg. The rest of the house, you really should put some effort in to doing the right sound proofing of the room when you are building it.

Make the room as dead as possible
When making a room sound proof to the outer environments, the goal should be to make it as dead as possible. That means doing the constructions in such a way that the sound waves do not transfer trough the walls and into the surroundings. (more…)

6 XBMC Plugins I Really Like

As I have mentioned in another article on this site, I like to use more than one media center software on my htpc.

I actually have Xbmc, Boxee and Media Portal installed on my windows 7 machine right now.

Xbmc is the one I use most often maybe, and although this software is truly great in its basic form, there are some great plugins or extensions available that make this media center software really powerful.

Below are 6 of the xbmc plugins I can’t live without: (more…)

High End Home Theater Speakers

Lets face it, a home theater is not complete without good sound quality, nothing worse than putting all that money and hard work into the home theater and then skimp on the sound quality. If you do, that is the single most important regret you will ever have regarding your cinema.

Sure, you could go out and buy yourself a pre-built surround package from your local electronics store, the market is flowing over with inexpensive deals, so go ahead, buy yourself some misery. (more…)

Building a silent media center pc

Since most of us who are looking to build a media center pc are going to have that pc located in our living room, the noise level of the machine is very important. There is nothing more annoying than a noisy pc when you want to watch your favorite film.

The following article shows on path to take to build a silent version of your media center pc. (more…)

Give your old home videos a new life

If you are like me, old and gray(not that old though), you might have many old VHS tapes laying around and collecting dust. And many of these are starting to deteriorate and loose quality.

Its just a fact of life, the quality of VHS tapes are not that good and isn’t meant to last forever.

This especially holds true to our home recordings and family recordings take trough the 70s and 80s. (more…)

Build your own theater screen

I am a big believer in doing most of the work yourself when it comes to building your home theater. This can save you a great deal of money if you know what you are doing.

One of the things you can do yourself is building the viewing screen for your projector. There are many ways to do this, and the costs of doing it depends a lot on the screens size. (more…)