Archive for the ‘Home Theater’ Category

Mounting your Flat panel display, what the installation guides don’t tell you

April 23rd, 2009 By: Sean

You’re home from the electronics store, twitching in anticipation of opening that slim box and pulling out an even slimmer, brand-spanking-new flat panel TV. It’s high definition. All the bells and whistles. You pull it out of the box and figure it will take you about an hour to get it mounted in perfect picture frame TV mount splendor… an hour later and it’s up, but when you sit back on your couch all you see is a blinding glare from the window and a distorted image.

So what went wrong? You were promised a crisp, clear, high-definition image and all you got was distortion or glare. Even the picture frame TV mount you bought to frame it with looks a little out of place… but why? (more…)

Where are you going to put that huge entertainment center now?

February 20th, 2009 By: Lauren

Wall-mounting flat-panel HDTVs is all the rage these days, as more and more consumers realize the benefits of having their TVs flush against their wall. The space that is saved, both on the wall and the floor, by not having a massive, clunky entertainment center is a breath of fresh air to anyone who has, or is considering, a wall-mounted TV. (more…)

Internal vs. External Speakers

September 16th, 2008 By: Lauren

So you have a High Definition Television now. Maybe its full 1080p or maybe not. Maybe you don’t even know what that means. You do however notice that your picture looks clearer and crisper than ever before. That’s great. Now what about the sound? Did your new television come with built in speakers? About 85 percent of televisions do, so the chances are that it did. Are you planing on using the speakers? The answer in most cases is simple: you don’t know what you are missing if you are not using some type of Home Theater Audio Solution. (more…)