MIKE LAKE: An introduction to home theater technology

For most of us, spending money on a movie theater experience is getting harder and harder to justify. One would wager that at least once in your life you've wished to have a bigger, better, more satisfying home theater experience.

Hands-on with Unity home theater

Unity's street price is $999 and will be available later this year. Pictured with a 47-inch TV. (Credit: Christopher MacManus/CNET) During CES , I got a chance to hook up with Engage, the company behind Unity , a well-built home theater system. Unity is the brainchild of Todd Beauchamp, an ex-Apple audio engineer (he worked closely on iPhone acoustics, for example) and Mike Fidler, an individual ...

Unity Home Theater System is a home theater in a TV stand

Thanks to their simplicity, the home theater in a box (HTIB) has become a popular addition to the TV cabinet in many households. Looking to simplify things even further, California-based company in2technologies has unveiled its aptly named Unity Home Theater System at CES 2012 that unifies a HTIB with a TV stand. So instead of a tangle of cables snaking their way from the back of a TV stand to ...

IGN Digigods Podcast Episode 227

From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles...

IGN Digigods Podcast Episode 226

From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles...