Awesome Home Theaters

VAVA’s laser projector outputs 4K images with HDR10 support. It can can create up to a 150″ display from just 7.2″ away from the projection surface. It’s rated at 6000 lumens, and its light source lasts up to 25,000h. It’s even bright enough to use in daylight with the proper screen.

C Seed outdoes itself – and other TV makers – with the world’s largest 4K TV. The $539,000 C SEED 262 gets its name from its 262″ diagonal – ~22 foot! – LED-backlit screen. It also has a 250W 10-speaker system, a media server, and a customizable and motorized fabric cover.

An affordable DIY kit that adds color-matched ambient lighting to your TV, similar to Philips’ Ambilight technology. It consists of RGB LEDs on adhesive strips, a Raspberry Pi, a USB video grabber and an HDMI to AV converter.

The Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter sends content from any Miracast-enabled device to any HDMI-equipped display. Unlike Chromecast, it doesn’t need a local Wi-Fi connection and it’s not limited to specific apps. More here.

A speaker and media player with two vacuum tube amplifiers. It has an embedded computer that runs Linux and XBMC for media streaming via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HDMI and 2 USB ports. It has a 100W main amp and a 30W subwoofer.

The Chromecast is an HDMI dongle that lets you send online content from your mobile device or computer to your HDTV or monitor. It works with Netflix, YouTube, Google Play and the Chrome browser, with more compatible apps on the way.

Built for the outdoors, the C Seed 201 is a retractable and moisture-repellent 201″ HDTV. Conceived by Porsche Design Studio and 2012 Red Dot design award winner. The price? $655,000.

Streams media from music, video and YouTube apps on Android devices. It supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NFC and has micro-HDMI, optical audio out, speaker jacks and an Ethernet port.

The Uppleva is an all-in-one home entertainment solution, with an HDTV, Blu-ray player, sound system and wireless subwoofer. The color of the TV’s frame can be matched with the furniture.

Clean up your home theater with the ScreenCast AV 4. Connect up to 4 HDMI devices and stream media from up to 100ft. away. The transmitter can’t stream to more than one receiver though.

Upload a picture of your room, set the scale and see how different-sized TVs will look once they’re set up. Won’t give you the optimal viewing distance for each TV size, but still a useful tool.

Elite Home Theater Seating builds themed home theaters, so your mansion will be even more bangin’ when your friends or MTV Cribs drops by. This pirate-themed project cost about $2.5M.

Good home theater speakers are not cheap, so you owe it to yourself to make sure you’re using them properly. Just hit up Dolby’s free guide – it’s packed with tips, tricks and info about speakers.

The newest member of Western Digital’s media players has a built-in 1TB HDD, as well as support for Blockbuster and Netflix. The Live TV Hub also streams to DLNA/UPnP compatible devices.

A networked media player with built in 802.11n WiFi, streaming to DLNA-compatible devices, support for most video formats including MKV and AVCHD, streaming via Netflix, Pandora and more.

Going for that Avatar-at-the-theater quality 3D media room experience? Sim2’s new C3X Lumis 3D just might do the trick with its dual projector system, each with 3 DarkChip4 1080p DLPs.