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You finally have your home theatre setup ready to go, the final decision, what home theatre seating to install. Should you go with cloth seats or should you go with leather? The cloth are warmer, perhaps a bit cosier, but there is nothing that beats the feel of soft supple leather to lay back in to watch a movie.

Well here’s my choice if you will be using the room for watching family movies with the kids. It has to be leather, if you have younger kids (or even teenagers for that matter, you know there will be spills. It simply cannot be avoided, they miss their mouth’s, they bounce around and things spill. With leather that is properly protected though it’s a non-issue.

With prompt attention the spills wipe up with a cloth whether it’s a soda pop or just buttery fingers from popcorn. I have two kids under ten and our cloth couch looks 200 years old, but when you look at the leather home theatre seats, no problems. So, just for sanity’s sake, leather is the way to go.

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Oasis Home Theatre Seating is selling a variant on an old theme for the true sport’s fan. These seats look like  they came right out of the stadium and will take the playoff experience for the true sports fan to the next level.

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I have already have one guest room, but I want the basement to have additional accomodations if I have a lot of guests over the holidays. My basement is fairly large. I currently have a sofa and chair in the basement. The sofa is a regular one, not a sofa bed. I also want to keep a small area set aside for an office area w/ my PC and printer, etc. I’m wondering if anyone has some ideas for how to set this up. Should I purchase a sofa bed for this area? I could use the additional seating too because I want the basement (when guests are not in town) to be a place of entertaining like a home theater. Any advice would be helpful.
Only invest in a sleeper sofa if you really have company often enough to use it. They are fairly expensive and the mattresses being folded all the time gradually damages the sponge. A matching pair of futons would give you the same sleeping area and more seating. Maybe you could set up your office at one end and use the sofa as the divider, backing it up to the desk or a pair of bookcases. Then set up the living room, tv area in one half of the room. Good Luck.

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I have a small home theatre system and all of my components except for my display are set up in a dedicated equipment rack which stands behind and to my left when I am seated. I face problems when trying to use infra red remote controls to operate these components.

I sometimes do point the remote to the display so that the beam gets reflected and I am able to operate the equipment but this doesn't always work. For this method, a particular angle is needed which is again not easy finding with an 'infra'-red beam.

I want to be able to operate my components as easily as I operate my display using remote.

Any suggestions apart from changing the position of equpments or using mirror to cover the wall are welcome.

You could use an IR extender. Basically, this involves an IR receiver/RF transmitter you would put at the front of the room and a RF receiver/IR transmitter you would put in front of the equipment you want to control. Now you point your remote(s) at the front receiver and it sends the control instruction via radio to the receiver and then back to IR to control the equipment.

These devices are usually used between rooms, but would also work for you in your home theatre.

Prices vary, but are under $75. Try Smarthome.com (See link for one model) or just do a google search on "IR remote extender"

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I'm just about finished setting up my home theater. It is a dedicated theater with 3 rows of seats and no windows. I have a sony vpl-vw100 projector, 7.1 surround sound (svs pb/12 subwoofer, axiom surrounds, and B&W for the other speakers), and am trying to decide on a receiver and universal remote. I'm leaning toward getting satelite for the HD programming, but I haven't decided yet.

I almost bought the denon 4306 receiver, but I won't need one till mid september so I wanted to wait to see what comes out. I'm also going to put a game console, a replay tv, and a DVD player. Any suggestions on the receiver and remote?

This is a question with many answers since everyone has there own opinion.
This is really a question of what your budjet is. If you can afford it I would (and do) use Lexicon. The new MC12HD does have HDMI switching if you are really set on it, but you can also use an external hdmi switcher. This is only a preamp though, so you would need a seperate amp. You could certainly get buy with the MC4 which is much less, but is basically an MC12 with less inputs/outputs and doesn't allow for internal upgrade cards for future technologies.
If you are set on a Receiver the Lexicon RV-8 is also an awesome piece of gear.
If your budjet doesn't allow, i would opt for any of the Denon receivers over the 3800 series. I have installed plenty of Denon products and they have a very low failure rate, and nice features.
Great bang for buck.
If you can afford it, go with the seperates (preamp/amp combo).

As for remotes, if you like the touchscreen wow factor, I like the AMX Modero Viewpoint. This is a highend automation system really though not just a remote, and will likely cost 6-10k installed and programmed.
The lesser cost for a touchscreen would be the MX-3000 by Universal Remote or the Pronto Pro by Philips. they are both similiar in functionality. If you are having an install company do the programming for you make sure you see some of their work before you buy, the remote is only as good as the programmer!
If you like to feel the buttons, I would go for the MX-850. the button layout is great and still allows for some custom text on the lcd buttons.

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I am THX Tech II certified.
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Ok, so I finnally financed my home theater project… costing a total of $20,000 thousand dollars. That included a nice projector, seats, nice sound system and sound proofing / acustics for the room in question.

However, now I am completly un-aware of how to get everything to work. I have a Sony 1080×1980 prodictor, 3 yamaha 5.1 channel Dolby receiver (for a total of 18 speakers) and a powerful MAC pc to run the multi-media from. All of my content is going to be played from the computer…. I know how to wire the video part, but the audio is what gets me. What CORD do i run from my computer to my Dolby receiver (whats it called, does it require a special card in the computer?) and how do I inter-connect all 3 receivers to get the same Dolby signal from the computer? just link all 3 together? or link each one seperatly from the computer?

Thanks for the help!

You can't link mulitple receivers together. Why did you get 3 receivers for one room? You should return 2 of them. And since you only need 1 receiver and its 5.1, you only need 5 speakers plus one subwoofer.

On the audio side, if you want DD/DTS you will need a sound card for your laptop that will output DD/DTS. If your onboard sound card doesn't have it, you will need to get a PCMCIA sound card or some type of external sound card (maybe USB).

If you don't care about DD/DTS, then you can have Dolby Pro-Logic by connecting the audio out to the receiver. To do this, get a mini-to-RCA adapter from Radio Shack.

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My living room is about 15×20. The couches/chairs are 10 ft to 13ft from the TV. We have a 42inch Samsung 1080p HDTV with plenty of HDMI and component slots to fill.

I'm looking for a home theater system less than $1000. Given the size of the room and location of the seating area I'm thinking we might have to go with the front/rear speaker system. Preferably something not too bulky.

Any help at all??

What models/brands do you think might work with my situation??

hii, i have a similar setup in the room as yours. i bought a Jamo A101 HCS ..its affordable, looks sleek & stylish (with the bose-look alike speakers), a powerful subwoofer and a region-free DVD player. it costs me around US$ 650…really amazing sound effect

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