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Wednesday, Nov 4
Opinion: Today on Cybertheater.com
Runco Crystal Portfolio Series LCD HDTVs Sony KDL46S5100 Television Review–A Foul Ball From Sony First Orders Taken For the SHOWWX Pico Projector Networks Confess: We Really Overreacted About DVR After All Sweet Home Theater Setup - Homeowner Turns Installer Sweet Home Theater Setu...
Tuesday, Nov 3
LG 42LH30 Television Review–A Solid Buy
If you’re looking for a new television to round out your home theater, then I often recommend looking at LG models as they do a really nice job for not a huge amount of money. The LG 42LH30 will definitely give you a lot of extra television for not a lot of extra cash. The LG [...]
Sunday, Nov 1
Harman Kardon AVR-154 5×30W 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver
For the home theater geeks, here is something you may want to consider especially if you are looking for an alternative home theater receiver. The Harman Kardon AVR-154 5×30W 5.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver features Logic 7 Cinema and Music surround sound processing in 5.1 channels wit...
Friday, Oct 30
Sweet Home Theater Setups - Another Backyard Drive-In
There’s a whole lot of people out there who crave the “drive in movie experience” of yore. But Kevin Van wanted it so badly that he built one. In his backyard. He bought his first projector for inside the house, and it got him to thinking, why can’t I use this projector outdoors? But that wasn...
Thursday, Oct 29
Opinion: Today on Cybertheater.com
Samsung LN40B530 Television Review–Not Up To Samsung’s Norm Sweet Home Theater Setup - The Modular Poster Boy Vizio Adds Small LED Backlit LCD TVs Sweet Home Theater Setups–The Backyard Home Theater Sears Black Friday Deals Hit–So Good We’ve Got A Disclaimer! NEC ValueStar W All-in-O...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Sweet Home Theater Setup - Another Great Basement Rig
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 on...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Paradigm Special Edition SE1 and SE3 Home Theater Speakers
Paradigm, the international leader in speaker design and manufacturing, recently announced its Special Edition product line that boasts the best of both worlds. The limited as well as unique addition to the Paradigm collection includes the SE1, a bookshelf speaker and the SE3, a floor...
Sweet Home Theater Setups - The Under Five Grand Special
You’ve got to love anyone who means to tackle the project of building a home theater on a budget. It takes a lot of restraint, not to mention discipline and sheer grit not to go hog wild and blow every nickel you’ve got on a gigantic plasma TV or the finest speakers or anything like [...]
Monday, Oct 26
Sweet Home Theater Setups–Homemade Speakers
Sometimes there’s one great thing about a home theater setup that makes you sit up and take notice. And in the case of David Barron’s home theater setup, that certain something special is his very own brand of homemade speakers. When David Barron started to set up his home theater, he got the...
Wednesday, Oct 21
Sweet Home Theater Setup - Freaking in the Purple Haze
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 Wit...
Monday, Oct 19
Home Theater Deals–Best Buy’s $1800 Home Theater
Got a nifty bit of product news for you, folks–this week, Best Buy’s running an in-store special where you can get a Sony Bravia forty-six inch LCD HDTV with a Sony HTS-S360 home theater in a box setup and a Sony BDP-S360 Bu-ray player all for the relatively low price of eighteen hundred doll...
Saturday, Oct 17
Oppo Focuses on Blu-Ray Development
Just like most home theater manufacturing groups, Oppo is now focusing on Blu-ray technology. Oppo, tagged as the Internet’s favorite brand has announced that it will be expanding via the focus on Blu-ray route. They have claimed to have sold out their DVD players and are no longer going to...
Thursday, Oct 15
Video On Demand Won’t Get You Past Advertisements
If you’re hoping to use video on demand and your digital video recorder as a way to avoid advertising in your home theater, don’t. They’ll find you anyway. A practice called “advanced TV advertising”, which includes measures to insert ads into DVR and VOD recording, is on track to exceed fo...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Sweet Home Theater Setup - Second Extreme: The Attic
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, i...
Monday, Oct 12
LG 47LH90 LCD HDTV
LG Electronics offers another LCD TV options for home theater enthusiasts with the LG 47LH90 LCD HDTV. This 47” LG LCD HDTV features a 1920×1080 native resolution with LED backlighting and a 10-point gray-scale calibration. The 47LH90 includes OTA and QAM HD Tuners and has the standard co...
Berkline Feel Good Massage Chair–Perfect For Any Home Theater
We look at a lot of components around here on Cyber Theater–we look at speakers and receivers and projectors and everything else. But it’s easy to forget sometimes that one of the most important parts of any home theater is its seating. You can have the greatest speakers and projector on ea...
Saturday, Oct 10
LG Announces the HB954SP Blu-ray HTIB System
Are you ready for a new Home Theater in a Box solution? LG just happens to have a new HTIB for you, the HB954SP. The device features a 5.1-channel sound system, 1,000 watts of power, five oval drivers, a subwoofer, a BD-Live Blu-ray player, a couple of HDMI inputs and even a dock ready to [...]
Humongous Mitsubishi 155” OLED TV Unveiled
Mitsubishi unveiled a monstrous 155” OLED TV at the CEATEC 2009 in Japan which should make ego-boasting home theater owners sheepishly shy away. The name of the game is “BIG” in the visual displays and it looks like the Mitsubisi 155” OLED TV has made all other products shrink in shame, at le...
Thursday, Oct 8
Panasonic PT-AE4000U LCD Home Theater Projector
Panasonic unveils its latest LCD home theater projector in the market with the Panasonic PT-AE4000U. This new LCD home theater projector deliver 1080p images with a 1,600 lumen brightness and 100,000:1 contrast ratio. For resolution, it boasts of a 1920×1080 pixel native resolution wh...
Sweet Home Theater Setup - Home Theater Bed Redux
Just when I think I’ve seen the height of bizarrity in home theater setups, along comes something else to change my mind. Remember when I showed you the bed with the TV in it, and said how great it’d be if it could have speakers added, and WiFi internet so you’d never have to leave [...]
Grim Reaper Speakers Add Horror To Your PC Movies
Okay, sometimes you’ve got to bring something up not necessarily because of its ability to process or perform its function, but just because of how cool it looks. And if your PC is your home theater system of choice, then you’ll likely want to take a look at the Grim Reaper USB speakers. Like I...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Those Funai Touch Projectors? Could Be Available Next Year.
Here’s an awesome bit of news–remember when I was talking about those Funai projectors that could basically be operated like giant touchscreens? Well, a new item just came out that suggests that these could actually be publicly available in 2010. Now that’s really exciting–they may ha...
Monday, Oct 5
Magnavox Travel Speakers Fold To The Size of a Paperback Book
So I was just reading about a new kind of iPod speaker that’ll work with most any music player, but here’s the really interesting part–they’re FOLDABLE. Sometimes you’ve got to take your home theater on the road, so it’s good to know there’s an easy way to do that. They’re called Memorex Mi22...
Friday, Oct 2
Sony Unveils Wireless Power Transfer Technology
Cables and wires are certainly among the issues that home theater artists have to deal with and while we have seen wireless speakers have come out, brace yourself for Sony’s new technology. The new tech is the Sony Wireless Power Transfer Technology which can send 60 watts over a distance o...
Thursday, Oct 1
Today’s Budget Home Theater Tip: Consider Projector Over Panel TV
It hit me just the other day, like the metaphorical ton of bricks, that I have been covering sweet home theater setups for the last few weeks, and most of you, me included, will never be able to own even anything vaguely resembling any of us. For most of us, if we got our hands [...]
Tuesday, Sep 29
Sweet Home Theater Setup - The Tiger Print
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, natural...
Crestron To Release Surround Processor and Amplifier For Blu-Ray
Crestron has had a whole slew of product announcements to come out of the CEDIA show, but two of the unquestionably biggest revolved around the tandem release of the PSPHD surround processor and its companion ProAmp amplifier. The PSPHD is a 7.3 channel home theater surround processor tha...
Monday, Sep 28
Sweet Home Theater Setup - Graffiti Theater
If you’ve ever gone out to a club and been bored to death and beyond, and wished that, somehow, you could stop the deep bass playback of Lady Gaga and her newest insane breakdown and catch a movie instead, then you’ll love this next sweet home theater setup–the graffiti theatre. The biggest t...
Thursday, Sep 17
Atlantic Technology Unveils FS-7.0 Sound Bar for Home Theater
Atlantic Technology recently unveiled the world’s first seven channel sound bar home theater speaker system, the FS-7.0, at CEDIA. Besides, the company also introduced the SB-800, an 8-inch subwoofer, designed for use with the FS-7.0. The FS-7.0 Surround Bar includes three 1-inch soft do...
Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD Projector
Epson unveils another potential home theater projector for people looking to enjoy HD quality movies with the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD. Pegged at an affordable price of $749.99, this projector is another addition to Epsons’ 3LCD home theater projectors which provide a versati...
Wednesday, Sep 16
Epson Powerlite Pro Cinema 9100 Cops 2009 Exc!te Award
Epson has been awarded the 2009 CustomRetailer Magazine EXC!TE award for its new Powerlite Pro Cinema 9100 3LCD home theater projector. The Pro Cinema 9100 boasts of a high contrast ration of 36,000:1 and brightness of 1,800 lumens. It features a 1080p resolution as well as ISF calibratio...
Palliser Pacifico Home Theater Seats
The TheaterSeatStore has been known to house majority of the best home theater seating available in the market today. Now, they have offered another great potential home theater recliner with the Pacifico Theater Seats from Palliser Furniture Ltd. Palliser is a familiar name in the home...
Sony HT-SF360 Home Theater System
Sony unveils a 5.1 home theater system carrying a slim design receiver to complement its blu-ray disc players. A highlight is the ability of the Sony HT-SF360 home theater system to deliver 1000W of total power that is sure to provide high quality surround sound. For its components, it comes...
JVC Announces Super-Slim LT-32WX50 Flat Panel Monitor
If you are searching for an extremely thin yet wide monitor, then you would definitely love the new super slim 32 inch LT-32WX50 Flat Panel LCD monitor for home theater by JVC. The monitor measures a mere ¼-inch deep and weighs just 12.5 pounds. The super slim profile of the LT-32WX50 Flat Pane...
Sunday, Sep 13
JVC Announces 4.1-Channel Sound Bar Home Theater Systems
To offer top-quality home theater sound, JVC recently introduced two new home theater systems, the TH-BA1 and TH-SB100. Both the TH-BA1 and TH-SB100 systems are 4.1-channel systems accompanied with wireless subwoofer. So, if you do not want to deal with wires running all over your living...
Konka LC47DT68DC LCD TV
Little-known LCD TV manufacturer Konka has an LCD TV of its own with the Konka LC47DT68DC, an ultra-thin body designed LCD TV that should fit in perfectly in any modern home theater setup or home. It comes with a dual-colored traceless injection display to complement its red and black curv...
Sunday, Mar 22
JBL ES150PW Wireless Subwoofer
A subwoofer can normally do the trick if you want some attitude in your home theater setup. Subwoofers are known to add more bass and power towards you listening and viewing pleasure but nothing beats the brand that has become familiar in the audio world. Further, the JBL ES150PW is wireless...
Friday, Jul 25
Onkyo HT-S7100 and the HT-S6100 Home Theater System
Onkyo recently launched two 7.1 channel home theater systems HT-S7100 and HT-S6100. Setting global standards in entertainment, the home theater system comes equipped with HDMI audio/video and ensures 1080i video upscaling. "These systems are a simple, foolproof, and extremely cost-...
Wednesday, Jul 9
Pioneer HTZ373DVD Home Theater System
The HTZ373 system has it all, from DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro LogicII built-in decoders to digital AM/FM tuner. Further in the array are- PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan; GigaByte Music; 1080p DVD upscaling, front stage surround and dual center speakers. The lavish product supports wide r...
