One of my favorite old Bloom County strips featured an evening of television around Bloom County, in which the TV invited viewers to purchase a collection of sixties classics.  Their pitch included the line "Who could ever forget such timeless classics as "Freaking In The Purple Haze With A Flying Hippo"?" And today's sweet home theater ...

There's one great thing about writing the Sweet Home Theater Setup pages--it really doesn't matter how big they are or how expensive they are or even how much money people save while making them, because it's all about the same thing.  It's all about watching movies, and doing it in the best place under the ...

We've all seen our share of basement home theaters around here, right?  Many of us either have one or long to have one, one way or the other, so it's kind of odd to refer to it as an "extreme".  It is, however, a bit unusual in that all the gear is EXPOSED. Yes, exposed.  As ...

This sweet home theater setup has a special sort of resonance for me, and for anyone else who's lived through the sheer mammoth crippling unpleasantness that is a flooded basement. When a couple found that their sump pumps had failed--sump pumps are those really valuable things that keep water that can seep up through concrete floors ...

It's true what they say, at least from where I sit--most every home theater enthusiast looks balefully down into their basements, the damp, dark caves they are, and pictures that basement full of hardware and comfy places to sit and sighs heavily, longing to turn that perfectly realized space into a beautiful home theater. Most of ...