How many times have you been in a room where a projector is used, and you find that all the lights have to be shut off in order to reduce the glare on the projection? A team of researchers at Japan's Tohoku University have created a projection screen that works inside brightly lit rooms, ...

I've been writing about enough sweet home theater setups to know that a major portion of them involve a Stewart filmscreen in one way or another, so I figured I'd take a look at some of these incredible screens. Recently introduced was a new addition to the Stewart lineup, the Slimline CineCurve projection screen. Now, CineCurves ...

You might not think that a New York high rise theater would be the best place for a sweet home theater setup.  After all, these places are mostly glass and steel--the sunlight alone would be horrendous.  And besides, who wants to distract from all those incredible views of the city by blocking windows with hardware? Well, ...

Ordinarily, a home theater setup might well start around a piece of equipment, like a speaker system or a certain projector screen.  But with this one, an admittedly sweet home theater setup, it all started with a square of fabric--that tiger striped affair you see at the right. Now, naturally, it didn't end with tiger striping.  ...

So what do you think a hundred grand and an almost pathological love of science fiction will get you?  Well, if you're self-proclaimed mad scientist Dr. David Winn, you get the thing you see at right--a science fiction home theatre with more props and sweet components than you ever thought you'd see in one place. Unless, ...