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Posts tagged “home theater”

Slick Home Theater Uses MacBook as Digital Library

We personally only watch TV through the Mac Mini plugged into our flat screen. It's seriously the best way to watch anything. No cable bills, no limits to what the networks are airing right now, it's...

Using a Shelf as a Floating Entertainment Unit

When choosing the entertainment unit for your HDTV, it's not always good to use something very large and imposing. Most of the time, something simple and elegant will do the job nicely. That's why we ...

Look! Off Center Flat Screen

We don't know about you, but we have a tendency of always having things centered. Especially the TV. We've always set-up our "media room" -- if we can even call that -- so that the TV is smack dab in...

How To... Keep your Home Theater Speakers from Looking Loud

Electronic House rounds up the best ways to minimize your speaker footprint, from built-in wall units to fans with speakers designed within. One of our favorite solutions from the roundup is Atlantic...

Look! Restoration Hardware Brings the TV Easel to the Masses

We've posted about TVs on easels a few times here on Unplggd. There was the DIY version and then the concept version. Now we have the to market version......

Mastering the Rental: Ideas From Maxime at AT

We couldn't help but fall head over heels for Maxime's heavily customized rental unit in Manhattan featured yesterday at AT. Aside from the near perfect mix of budget pieces and splurge accessories, w...

Verizon Fios to Offer Sample Episodes from Premium Channels

In an interesting move from the cable giants, Verizon introduced some new upgrades to its FIOS TV service this week that seem to be moves in the right direction. DVICE reports that the new upgrades p...

Krumnikl Environment

We love when we purchase furniture and it ends up being the absolute perfect fit in our home. An even better love is when all of our electronics and gadgets are also perfect fits. Unfortunately, s...

Camouflaging Home Tech in Complete Chaos

For the most part, we all want to hide our gadgets within our homes. One of the ways to do this is to simply hide them, in cabinets, consoles, behind paintings, and in closets. Another way is to simp...

Flickr Finds: Beautiful Pressure Mounted Media Stand

Finding the perfect vintage piece to hold your new tech is skill. Furniture built pre- televisions, DVD players, video game systems tend not to hold the shelving, cabinets, drawers, and electrical c...

RF Remote: Control Your Home Theater Through Walls

There are a lot of different remotes out there. The main reason why people enjoy them so much is that they enable you to control all of the components of your home theater system with a single remote....

Flickr Finds: Wall Mounted Bedside TV

It's not uncommon for TVs to have a home in the bedroom. We don't recommend it as we've been told that watching TV right before bed can cause Mr. Sandman to take longer, but if you must, we like this...

Look! Bringing a Little Bit of Nature to Your Media Room

We love bringing nature into our home in any and every way possible. We having living plants hanging from curtain rods and sitting on window shelves, dried flowers standing in wall vases filled with ...

DIY Project: Ikea Bonde TV Bench... Simplified

On Ikea Hacker today, Swedish hackster Oscar Cederwall turns a gigantic Bonde TV add-on into a slick sideboard. "The main reason for why I decided to build my own side board from Bonde is because I ...

Brendan's DIY Hide the Wires Project Video

One of our former bloggers over from Re-Nest sent us this video of an audition tape for a DIY network show (it's about 10 minutes long, so you might fast forward to about :56 to skip the intro spiel...

Is Wireless HDMI Dead? Belkin Flywire Gets Canned

It seems like Belkin will no longer be releasing its FlyWire wireless HDMI accessory, as confirmed by Belkin's PR announcement yesterday afternoon. Apparently "its retail price of $1,499 would be out ...

Roundup: Five Best DIY Cable Management Solutions

If there's one thing people tend to complain about post in and post out on Unplggd, it's messy wires. There isn't a post that goes by where someone doesn't comment, "Looks great! Now they just have to...

5 Small Scale Home Media Cabinets

Aaron over at Apartment Therapy New York shares his hunt for a media storage unit for his TV setup: I've been on the hunt for a new solution for attractive living room media storage — and I've...

Furniture Made of Old Airplanes and Fighter Jets

Looks like turning old airplane parts into furniture isn't just a one hit wonder. Roughly 200 airplanes are retired every year. Most go to a scrap metal graveyards to be picked apart for worthy parts...

DIY Installation: Flat Panel TV With Hidden Wiring

John sent Apartment Therapy his fantastic "Before and After: How To Redo a Chandelier" last year and now he has started his own blog about the renovation of his SF Victorian, moving onto a series of h...

Speakers as Equalizers

Any time you can take a speaker out of its square existence and spice it up is a good thing. This concept from Young Sang Eun, the same guy that thought up the 2-in-1 loo, turns speaker into movable...

DIY Project: Cheaply Assemble Entertainment Center

Times are tough, but that doesn't mean that you have to spend no money. You just have to spend what money you have at your disposal smartly. This is why we thought that this Ikea hack was really nifty...

Mini Movie Theater: MiLi Pro

We've talked about the MiLi Power Pack for the iPhone before, and just when you thought MiLi couldn't get any better, they've released a device that will allow you to project the movies you usually ...

Bringing in White and Light Into the Media Room

When can we move? Found on Desire to Inspire, this sweet living room is from a collection of Swedish real estate photos. Yup, these sweet digs are for sale (though we're not sure if all the amazing f...

Inspiration: Sleek Tech Ideas from a Copenhagen Penthouse

Taking the black and white theme to overdrive, the Danish bunch over at NORM architects have created a modern space that's subtle with tech, but heavy on ideas. From recessed lighting, TV mounts, and ...