Over the last year, the iPhone / iPod Touch app store has seen substantial growth in the number of home theater / movie applications. Manufacturers have especially latched onto the platform in order to provide consumers with extra control options. Everything from A/V receivers to HDTVs has seen new methods of integration with Apple’s mobile devices. Add in the release of the iPad and we expect to see an acceleration of growth for applications developed for home theater gurus (especially in system control applications).We combed over the App store to bring you 30 iPhone / iPod Touch home theater / movie apps that you should definitely check out. First up, Movie Management applications. Movie Management:PocketflicksThere are several Netflix Queue management tools available for the iPhone, but PocketFlicks (formally PocketFlix) is the best one I’ve tested. It’s quick, simple Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-feature-articles/best-of-top-100-lists/30-iphone-apps-for-your-home-theater.html) [affmage source="amazon" results="10"]iphone[/affmage]

Nearly everybody love to watch our fave artists or the newest pictures in theaters. The big screen gives us the very feeling that we are a part of the flick. Heartwarming dramas make us cry. Entertaining skits and comedy films make us laugh and even cry our self out for joy. Tragic shows provide us with a lot of lessons about life. Love stories give us encouragement to fall completely in love again. Frightening and horror movies make us jump from our seats and hide. Regardless of what the kind of picture might be, when we watch them in theaters, they provide us with a different feeling.

The thrill, drama, joy and overwhelming feeling is fully influenced by the Surround Sound System of theaters. The tracks and background music in films add to the thrill in what we are watching. You are feeling that you become one with the artists in the movie and it gives you an impression that you are a part of what is happening in the show. When you correctly hear the words that are let out in the flicks, it gives you a full satisfaction that everything appears real. Every beat of the music gives you encouragement to watch some more .

This is all possible with the help of Surround Sound System technology. In modern times, folk have made theaters part of their very own home. Because of the thirst and itching for relaxation and watching pictures, people have built their own picture house. In the comfort of your own residence, you can just sit in your couch and have reachable your newly prepared popcorn or your ordered pizza. Then, by yourself or with the company of family members and mates, you are now prepared to enjoy your all time favourite flicks.

Surround sound home theater systems gives you an audio technology which would come from all corners of your home movie theater. It makes you give an even more entertaining experience than just watching it in a standard TV. The sound effects are even more audible to the ears. Pictures and visual effects are larger. To add them all up, it might give you one fun ride of a movie.

With the use of a large amount of speakers the surround sound system becomes a probability. To get the ideal sound effects possible the speakers must be at least all matching. The amount of speakers that’ll be used relies on the size of your room and most particularly it depends on your budget. To get a full data on the amount of speakers, you may as well measure the dimensions of your room and then seek help from the gurus.

A home theater can give you one ultimate experience at the comfort of your own abode. With the ideal screen or projectors you can watch films just like the big-screen. Additionally, with the help of the sound effects which you can hear from all directions of the room, you can have one fun and enjoyable time with yourself, family and your mates. The home is our place to chill after a hard day’s work and a handy place to bond with your family. The surround sound system in our home will give us a show just like what we experience in the film houses. Just visit http://www.surround-sound-systems.org to be ready to make your own theatre in one spot of your place.

A new 3D ready DLP projector is available from ViewSonic. It was designed for both corporate and home theater use in mind. The PJD6531w offers support for both NVidia 3D Vision and Texas DLP Link technology. Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/dlp-front-projector-news/viewsonic-announces-availability-of-3d-dlp-projector.html)

In the first installment of my silver cable survey (Link (home-theater-feature-articles/audio-related-articles/silver-cable-overview-part-one.html)), I covered RS Cables and Element Cable products. In this second installment, I will be looking at silver cables by DH Labs, based in Alachua, Florida, and Decware, out of East Peoria, IL. I received samples of DH Labs Silver Revelation interconnects, and the Decware Silver Reference interconnects.This survey has been extremely illuminating and an eye opener for me. It has reaffirmed for me that you can get performance approaching the very best for a small fraction of the price of the most expensive audio cables on the market. Ultra pricey cables, in my opinion, have become somewhat of a status symbol. Cables have been called “audio jewelry” by some well known high performance audio reviewers, and I agree. However, I also believe they are a very important link in the chain, and can be considered a Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-feature-articles/audio-related-articles/silver-cable-overview-part-two.html)

JVC’s XV-BP1 has a terribly bright light at the front of its unit, reminding one a bit of the flood lamps at the front of the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The brightness can potentially be off-putting, especially with close proximity to the viewing screen. It might seem a little unorthodox to mention something aesthetic like that in the first lines of a review, but there’s a reason; aside from that, and a strange “happy accident” anomaly that jumps disc playback straight to the start of the programming upon boot-up, this 1080/24p, Profile 2.0 player delivers an impressive, unproblematic punch with its capabilities. Though it might be quiet and flex quite a bit of audiovisual muscle, it’s the fact that the player is lightning fast that makes it a strong competitor against the standard onslaught of heavy-hitters surrounding its $300 list price. Out of the Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-video-players/blu-ray-players/jvc-xv-bp1-blu-ray-player.html)