Home theater buffs, and anyone else planning to install their own home theater, listen up, because I’ve got an inspirational story for you today.  What happens when you can’t get one decent wall in your whole home theater room? One of the biggest aspects of your sweet home theater setup is a projection screen.  Sure, [...]

Remember how I was talking about slow and steady winning the home theater race?  How great it was that some people took their time and learned everything they could about home theater before they installed theirs?  Well…for Audiovisual Concepts And Solutions’ Andy Caraballo, that means less than nothing. This guy actually had a two month [...]

A lot of people aren’t fond of widescreen.  I heard the moaning often enough during my video store clerk days about letterboxing and suchlike, and I doubt it’s improved much sense.  But for guys like Wayne Hanson, widescreen isn’t a format–it’s a challenge. While most home theater owners dream about 16:9, Hanson went for the [...]

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 [...]

Now THIS is the one that makes today’s whole theme make sense.  Because today, we’re talking about a sweet home theater setup placed in the one place where one probably shouldn’t be–the attic. My mind boggled when I tried to wrap it around this baffling concept, but it was not only possible, it came out [...]