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More Important to Keep a Party House or a Cozy Abode?

When you're laying out your furniture and television setup, do you think primarily about entertaining guests, or is your main focus on creating your own cozy movie nook?...

Computers in the Bedroom? Next to the Bed?!

It's usually a last-resort spot that's result of a too-small bedroom or an awkward floor plan. But are there any advantages to keeping the desk next to your bed?...

Tip: Put Subscriptions On Hold Before You Travel!

Going on a trip is already an expensive venture—if you're early in the planning, just wait until you get back your credit card statement with the plane tickets and hotel reservation charged up&m...

NetFlix Streaming Comes to Sony Bravias

If you are using NetFlix to stream movies, you'll soon be loving their new partnership with Sony. This will make streaming movies to your Bravia TV a cinch and remove a bunch of messy wires, if that's...

What's The Appropriate TV for a Kid's Room?

Let's be honest, kids destroy stuff often. It's nice to give Bobby the Nintendo paradise he's always wanted in his room, but chances are that 19" LCD will see it's demise at the hands of a game of Wii...

Hulu Goes Browser-less, Now a Desktop Resource

We—and everyone else who enjoys the flexibility to watch their favorite shows on their own time—gush non-stop about the amazing, brilliant and oh-so-addictive online resource Hulu. You can...

RunPee: Never Miss The Good Parts Again

RunPee is the kind of brilliant Web service that makes you wonder why it hasn't been thought of before. With all of the collective knowledge available to us on the internet, it's about time somebody h...

Wrong Side of the Format War? Go Red2Blu

Be honest, did you go out and stock up all your favorite movies in HD DVD because they were gonna be the next big thing? Plenty of people dove into high-def and then one day (March 28, 2008 to be exac...

Bookshelf By Day, Wicked Projection Theater By Night

Pottery Barn, PB Teen and their endless ability to work tech-friendly solutions into their classicly stylish and versatile furniture is the stuff that Unplggd dreams are made of. It's not rare to see ...

LG's Most Wanted Film Gadgets

Unplggd blogger Anthony put together his own list of what technology from movies we'd like to get our grubby little mits on in real life. Check it out if you haven't seen it already. But turns out, el...

Hot or Not? Media Rooms Showcasing... Media

While some of us prefer our media hidden in boxes, as seen in our guide to decluttering home theaters, others enjoy the pursuit of collecting and showcasing their goods within their media rooms. For t...

Top 10: Home Tech In Movies We'd Like To See In Real Life One Day

Who doesn't love a clever movie gadget? While we at Unplggd enjoy the thrills of a James Bond flick and the fear of having robots rebel against us in the future, but we're always on the lookout for th...

News: iTunes Store Creates a Movie Bargain Bin

I have an addictive habit that has decreased the change in my pockets by a little, but increased my DVD collection by leaps and bounds. On Fridays or Saturdays—or any days, really—when a f...

iRecorder Gets Your Movies to Your iPod

Watching movies on the go is a great little pleasure of the 21st century. But, as with all technology, we take a mile when we're given an inch and we've complained about what we can and cannot get on ...

If All Movies Had Cell Phones...

If you're like us, you find yourself screaming at the screen whenever a movie character does something stupid. The obvious remark is yelling, "Don't go upstairs!" to the horror film vixen. But which o...

Slingbox PRO-HD: High-def to Your Computer Anywhere in the World

We have covered the Slingbox before, but for our readers who aren't familiar with this little box, it allows you to watch your TV on a laptop or mobile phone anywhere in the world....as long as you h...

Converting a DVD Collection

So we've almost completely rid ourselves of our CD collection, converting hundreds of the CDs we owned into digital files for space saving purposes. And now we're doing the same with our DVD collectio...

Tip: Find the 99 Cent Rental on iTunes

So, we are a bit behind the curve, apparently, because we just discovered that iTunes is offering a $0.99 movie rental every week. It's featured at the top of the iTunes store, and there's also a webs...