You've got to feel bad for Paul Hayes.  Guy moved to the United States from England, and you know what that means for a movie buff.  Yes, his entire DVD collection wouldn't work in any hardware over here. What Barack Obama discovered too late in his gift to Gordon Brown was that DVDs basically only work ...

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 ...

I love the idea of home theatre.  Seriously.  Sure, going to the movies is all fine and well, and I do enjoy that too, but the thought of being able to open my basement or my spare room door and get that same experience any time, day or night, without screaming babies or yappy teenagers ...