Just with a mere click of a mouse, this room can revolve at 180 degrees - from cherished dialogue to big screen amusement. To utilize the most out of home theater space, a Tennessee family has lately installed a revolutionary floor that swivels the obverse seats 180 degrees to visage the second row, thereby offering a more natural setting for recreation.

This 16-foot revolving spherical floor is power-driven by four motors and restricted via remote. The theater door is also monitored by remote and can be folded from the floor in 12 sections plus looks like a Chinese hand fan. Casa Cinema takes pride in offering an elite theater design while Visual Concepts takes care of installation.

The inclined walls at this space provide some acutely reverberant acoustics. Visual impression also presents absorptive fiberglass acoustical panels that look like ornamental elements when hung upon side walls. It enables monitoring of sound from the 7.1-channel audio system power-driven by a Marantz SR8500 receiver pumping 125 watts to Atlantic Technology 4200 series speakers. All the illumination, including LEDs (light-emitting diodes) adjoining the spinning floor, on the maximum and beneath the staircase is monitored by a Lutron system.

The erection of this theater was done as an initiative to build a home during a Parade of Homes showcase, offering them a surprising ride. Above all, the 35-foot entrance hall to the theater presents a starfield—residing in the carpet and not in the ceiling.

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 Come the news about release of any new flick, everyone runs towards their nearest theater or go ahead with online booking. Rest is houseful within no time. And this kills my opportunity to watch first day first show. Well, an honest confession I am not all that keen for the same. I may love to watch even an age-old flick with my beloved rather than fishing for a ticket for over-populated hall.

And lately I realized I can afford to do all this while sitting at my home by installing outdoor drive-in theater in my backyard. What a fun enjoying popcrorn and champagne with your loved ones, with no fear of getting disturbed by any unwanted presence. The much-in-use Backyard Drive-In features movies, video games, sports events and corporate presentations at its ultra-large outdoor movie screen. Measuring over 10 feet (W) and 6 feet (H), it offers a memorable theater experience to its audience. If you are looking for a much larger screen then you can keep your fingers upon one with 13 feet (W) X 9 feet (H). The price varies from $1049-$1449 depending upon the model you pick.

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Having talked about world’s most expensive stereo system, Batcave home theater, Retirement Theater, $300k Goldmund Media Room, we now came across $6 mn home theater produced by Jeremy Kipnis. The music coax, producer, classical music aficionado and now the inventor of a huge home theater system, Jeremy Kipnis consciously knows his pursuit. It cannot be tagged as smutty posh as it is a reasonable bargain that settles for $6 million. The picture constituents are formed of a Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector with an imposing 4,096-by-2,160 resolution and the Stewart Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture screen stands at a massive 18 x 10-foot that is no less than an actual theater screen.

The Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player complements the state-of-the-art Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player with SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total) and Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player upping the bet for other HT systems. It also features HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player along with JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS recorder that helps you record a running live telecast. And for gaming fans, it offers a Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console.

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And here we have another Sound bar system. Samsung has peeled away the censorship of its HT-X810 Home Theater Sound Bar that is a wall-mountable speaker system. This feature-packed system plugs 300 watts of power consumption and the kit contains wireless 5.8 Ghz subwoofer enabling it to settle anywhere in the room.

It is an exclusive contestant amongst the pool of stand-along audio systems. Positioned in a slick cabinet with piano black end, the HT-X810 features a DVD player and Bluetooth connectivity for streaming audio. The DVD player has a potential to upscale up to 1080p via HDMI and can support DivX and DVD Audio. It would be available for sale in May 2008.

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Polk Audio is geared up to introduce its latest offering called Surround Bar at CES 2008. It is a two-piece DVD theater system comprising of the Surround Bar 360 multichannel amplifier, an electronic console that has a DVD player, loudspeaker, AM/FM radio, USB, video and analog inputs.

The product is a result of consumers’ desire of an “accurate surround audio and deep bass from a solitary breakfront.” The product uses Polk’s own Stereo Dimension Array (SDA) technology. Video output is HDMI whereas the audio may vary a variable bit rate of up to 384kbps. For more details visit Polk Audio. The Surround Bar is retailed at $1,199.95.

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The very mention of an exclusive home theatre rotates the eye lids of movie buffs who can’t afford to extract time out of their busy schedule, cribs about the same and finds rescue in feature packed home-theater. But human curiosity can never be satisfied and they keep on expecting something better than the available. Beating the earlier Extreme-spa home theater and $300k Goldmunds media room, today we have a unique offering for you. I can’t take this argument its better than the existing home theaters but surely I can vouch for its uniqueness.

Identified as Batcave Home Theater, its theme and design reside very well to its name. Designed by New Hampshire-based installer DC Audio Video Systems, the set-up comprises of prop bats which hang from top with a built-in motorized 110″ 16:9 Stewart Electriscreen, Triad Silver THX Speakers, and a Sony G90, a $36,000 commercial 1080p 2500 x 2000 CRT projector. Surprising but attracting your senses, the room features eight black, motorized leather recliners and a LiteTouch LC5000 System for Lighting Control. I admire the dark gothic ambience.

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If you are bored of World’s most-expensive stereo system, High-tech Acoustics Voyager or Retirement Theater, then we have something haute on the platter i.e. Goldmund’s Media Room, whose price range starts from $300,000.

Can you bear the presence of a team of installers’ fitting home theater in your personal room? At least I cannot. Swiss manufacturer has lately unveiled the striking Media room that comes packed with 128 speakers along with an identical amp for each speaker and a controller.

Goldmund installers’ access to its composite acoustic modeling program, called Proteus offers a surround-sound theatrical experience to your interiors irrespective of the size, design of the room. Well, projector and screen may demand some extra cost.

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It took almost five-years for the final completion of the China’s National Grand Theater. Now the theatre has started offering trial performance from 25 September, welcoming its constructors and inhabitants to be its first honored guests.

The USP of this much talked-about masterpiece is its elliptical form. The mastermind behind this enterprising and novel creation is a French architect Paul Andreu. Positioned in the centre of the capital, the innovative theater evolves like an island amidst the lake.

The theater flaunts three colossal halls - a 2,416-seat opera house, a 2,017-seat concert hall and a 1,040-seat theater. The huge “bubble”, coated with 20,000 titanium panels and 1200 laminated glass panels is anticipated to be honored as the China’s top arts performance centre.

Around 23 tests including ballets, operas and dramas are scheduled to happen on this new facility from 25 September-13 October. Among the highlight is the play “Teahouse” and the opera “Peony Pavilion” that is not disclosed to the public. A general fine tuning will follow the testing. The first public concert in the theater is planned at the year-end.

The very entry into the theater is enthralling as you will be crossing the 80-meter tunnel, engulfed by the flickering water adding beauty to the translucent roof. The golden-hued opera house can accommodate 2,000 spectators. The sound quality of one corner of the theater is competitive to the other.

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Without any doubt, world’s pricey high-end stereo system retailed at $ 860,608 is expected to justify its presence at IFA 2007. Exhibited by Audio, the trade journal has invited all eyeballs complemented with loads of expectations.

But this elite product offers matchless experience with the 5.1 sound produced by JBL-speakers. Let me now introduce you to its other ingredients that helped that would help you calculate its price, thus giving peace to your curiosity.

Pair of JBL-speakers: $68,700
Four Velodyne subwoofers: $52,000 (18-inch)
Five Amplifiers: $163,000 (By Krell)
Pre-Amplifier: $54,500 (By Mark Levinson)
Audio player: $137,000

But like everything under the sun, this power-packed stereo system also comprises of low-cost elements viz. blue-ray player BDP-LX 70 retailed at $1,776 and Toshiba’s HD-DVD player HD-EXI is also cost-friendly. True, this low cost won’t help in any sense as the functionality of the system would be incomplete without the expensive lot. Not to forget the SIM2 projector HAT-500 that demands a bulky sum of $68,000.

This lavish system is a perfect feast for the music lovers and for those who wish to enjoy the cinematic experience wt home only. Am sure with all their ears to the beats of the stereo system, the crazy freaks would be ready to lose the weight of their wallet.

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Sony lately unveiled its surround sound chair-Za at the design exhibition scheduled in Tokyo.

The chair is escalated with two huge speakers on its head. The leather made couch offers an elite experience to its customers by providing them with the private theater ambience for music, games and movies.