Home Theatre - Enjoy the magic of movies at your home!!

The dimensions of a room are one of the most overlooked features when one decides to get a quality Home Theater. The Size and shape of your room can affect the quality of your Home Theater system. The dimensions of your room will determine how the sound will interact with your walls especially low frequency sound waves.

The ideal shape of a room would be rectangular. However it's better to stay away from rooms where the length and width are double of the height. Let's take for example if the height of your home theater system is about 8', the length and width should not be 16' x 24' both which are multiples of 8, try altering about one dimension by a foot and it should be fine. A square shaped room would be the least acoustic friendly shaped that you can have.

If one has invested quite a bit of buying their AV system, the weakest link in the home theater system would be the acoustic properties of the room. Any room for that matter requires some sort of acoustical enhancements, most of the cases you would be sitting more than 3' away from your primary speakers. When doing this, the major part of the sound would come to you indirectly bounced from the walls in your room rather than directly from the primary speakers. Hence your room will amplify some sounds and tones down other sounds.

In order to make the best of your home theater investment you need to be able to control how the sound waves bounce around your room. This can be solved by hanging acoustic panels in your theater. The majority of time you need to use absorptive acoustic panels, these panels help to absorb sound waves which stop the bouncing of sound on several walls before they reach your ears. When your Home Theater design demands a large portion of your room to be covered in panels, then you should consider installing Diffusive acoustic panels. These panels contain uneven surfaces (hidden by acoustic fabrics) which help distribute the sound wave such that they don't bounce all over the room, yet they keep the room sounding alive and vivid.

In the upscale neighborhoods of New York home theater systems incorporate the dedication of an entire room to the viewing of high definition entertainment. In addition to professionally installed screens and custom designed sound systems these movie rooms often incorporate theater style seating with large oversized chairs, individually arranged and sometimes staggered in two rows with plenty of leg and elbow room, for viewers to enjoy. These elaborate viewing rooms bring all of the sights and sounds of spectacular movie productions from the big screen right into the home.

With the advances in digital television and high definition products saturating the market almost everyone can recreate the movie going experience in their own home. The adaptations of surround sound speaker systems that deliver crisp tones and basses in concert with a big screen television have led to a home theatre revolution. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can affordably recreate the experience of going to a movie in their living room, but it takes a true professional to design and create a custom installation of home theater system that transforms ordinary television watching into a feast for the senses.

James Vasanth writes a blog on eInterativeHomes, about Home Theater, Lighting Control and connecting the dots between online and offline.

LG Display is preparing a line of Ultra HD TV

The company LG Display has announced plans to present at CES 2013 in early January, a lineup of TVs with ultra-high resolution and Ultra HD . Earlier, the South Korean manufacturer has already said that the flagship model with 84-inch screen will be sold for 20 thousand dollars, it will add 55 - and 65-inch versions, more friendly to the pocket. In addition to them, and LG will release a 30-inch computer monitor, also with the matrix Ultra HD .

Resolution Ultra HD , for which now formalize this designation, previously designated as 4K. Under Ultra HD resolution 3840x2160 understood pixels is four times the standard for Blu-ray format Full HD, that is 1920x1080 pixels. The new standard screens for televisions and other systems was reported recently, and manufacturers have started to produce compatible products, development of new niche is going well.

LG Display will delight and its other products, it will be a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1080p, 7-inch "flatbed" panel with a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels and 12.9-inch screen with a matrix of 2560x1700 pixels, this is higher than the standard Retina on laptops Apple. An important aspect is the thickness and the frame around the display, LG will provide a 13.3-inch laptop with a 2mm border and a 4.7-inch screen with a frame of 1 mm.

ASUS price and time to tablet transformers on Windows 8, ASUS ET2220

ASUS has with Microsoft held a press conference dedicated to the market tablet-Transformers and ultrabook on Windows 8. We are talking about devices such as tablet computers ASUS Vivo Tab and Tab Vivo ASUS RT , ultrabook-transformer ASUS Transformer Book, ultrabook ASUS TAICHI, laptops ASUS Vivo Book (X202, S400, U38), ASUS ZENBOOK Prime UX31A Touch - ultrabook, equipped multitouch display and ASUS ET2220 - Series 21.5-inch one-piece computers.

The 11.6-inch tablet computer Vivo Tab is perfect for working on the go, and Vivo Tab RT - a lightweight multimedia tablet.

ASUS Vivo Tab (ASUS TF 810) equipped with the latest processor Intel Atom, 2GB of memory and user memory to 64 GB. A key feature of the device is a mobile docking station, through which Vivo Tab can be converted into a compact netbook with a keyboard and touchpad. In addition, the docking station adds a pair of USB-ports, and increased battery life due to the additional battery. ASUS Vivo Tab will be available in late November - early December at a price of $1,266.64 USD.

The structure of the hardware platform ASUS Vivo Tab RT (ASUS TF600) includes 4-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor with integrated graphics core, 2 GB RAM and 64 GB of user memory. As Vivo Tab, it can be used in conjunction with the mobile dock, which offers the keyboard, touchpad, USB-port and an extra battery. Tablet ASUS Vivo Tab RT is already available at a price of $949.66 USD.

ASUS Transformer Book is a laptop that can quickly transform into a tablet PC - just remove the screen from the keyboard. In the hardware component Transformer Book is the Intel Core i7 third generation solid-state drive and a hard disk. Built-in speaker system with ASUS SonicMaster audio technology provides clear sound with deep, rich bass. ASUS Transformer Book will be available in mid-December at a price of $1,899.96 USD.

Opening the cover ASUS TAICHI looks like any other ultrabook with a full size keyboard and touchpad. But as soon as the lid is closed, the device turns into a tablet PC with multi-touch screen and stylus support. Although both screens are connected to the same hardware configuration, they operate independently of each other, allowing two users to work directly with TAICHI simultaneously. Performance provided by Intel Core processor third-generation, fast SSD and dual-band wireless module Wi-Fi 802.11n. ASUS TAICHI will be in stores in early December and will be sold at a price of $1,646.63 USD.

Among the features of the series laptops ASUS VivoBook (X202, S400, U38) manufacturer said quality materials, wide choice of colors and, most importantly, easy touch screen. X202 series laptops are already on sale at a price of $569.99 USD. Ultrabooks S400 series will be available this month at a price of $1,044.98 USD, and the U38 series notebooks will be available in early December at a price of $886.65 USD.

ASUS ZENBOOK Prime UX31A Touch - this is the first model in the ZENBOOK, equipped with a multitouch display. Novelty has a powerful hardware configuration that includes an Intel Core third-generation solid-state drive up to 256 GB. As for the other characteristics ZENBOOK Prime UX31A Touch, we can note the Super IPS + screen with wide viewing angles (178 °), high-speed interface USB 3.0, as well as dual-band wireless adapter Wi-Fi 802.11n. The appearance on the market ASUS ZENBOOK Prime UX31A Touch is expected in mid-December. The device will be available at major retailers and electronics at a price of $2,026.31 USD.

Monobloc 21.5-inch ASUS ET2220 Series computer in a compact package. ET2220 Series models have a powerful enough for any daily tasks configuration that includes an Intel Core i5 third generation and up to four ports USB 3.0, a multi-touch screen models of the ET2220 is a suitable means of interaction with the user interface of the new operating system Windows 8. ASUS ET2220 device appear on the market at the end of December and will be sold at a price of $791.65 USD.

Apple's New iPad, It's Faster and Screen Is Better

Apple just announced the newest iPad, which will be called the iPad, and not the iPad 3 or iPad HD or iPad: Eddie Bauer Edition or with any other modifier. The big hits: it's got a better screen ("better" in this case meaning Apple has stolen all the pixels in the world and crammed them into the new iPad), a faster processor, an optional 4G LTE chip, and some software updates.

So the big news here is the screen resolution, which is bonkers. At 2048 x 1536 pixels, it has significantly more pixels than not just the old iPad, but also your 1080p HDTV and just about any other "HD" screen you've got lying around. Apple's again referring to it as a "Retina Display," which means that you won't be able to see pixels with your bare, weakened, organic eyeballs, at least from the 15-inch distance Apple estimates most people have between their eyes and their iPads. (Note: Apple is clearly excluding cats, which have more sensitive eyes and sit closer to the iPad anyway. This is offensive, probably.) That'll mean every publisher is going to have to re-do their apps for the new resolution, the same way they had to for the transition from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4.

Also included: a new processor, dubbed the A5X, that provides quad-core power. The Tegra 3, which powers a few Android tablets, is also quad-core, but Apple needs the power to burn through the kinds of apps that will take advantage of the new display. Plus there's a 4G LTE antenna, either for AT&T or Verizon, which is pretty great--we're totally impressed by LTE, so it's great to see it here. And Apple has presumably worked some kind of gypsy magic to keep the battery life steady at 10 hours for Wi-Fi and nine hours for 4G--we've seen LTE absolutely slaughter battery life in phones, but hopefully Apple's worked that out.

Oh, and the company also announced a new Apple TV! Seems like basically just a firmware upgrade, though it's not clear if older Apple TVs will get it. There's a new version of the software, some nice bonuses like being able to use iCloud for 1080p movie streaming, and shows available the next day for purchase. No Siri, though, which bums us out because we spent all morning dreaming about how sweet that'd be.

The iPad and Apple TV both maintain pricing: iPad starts at $500, moving up from there due to storage and 4G inclusion, and the Apple TV costs $100.

By Dan Nosowitz