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Mounting Your Flat Panel TV on Your Wall - Part One As many of you know, we are proud advocates for getting that flat panel off of your furniture and onto the wall. Otherwise, what's the point of having lightweight, flat televisions?

Danny Bonaduce's Lame Home Theater Where can you watch reruns of "The Partridge Family" in style? An article at CE Pro says In Danny Bonaduce's Hollywood-area home. But given the lame layout, and lack of tech - we'd have to disagree.

CEDIA Lead-Based Paint Education & Certification CEDIA is offering, in cooperation with National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a simple way for individuals to become educated and certified in dealing with lead paint issues according to the EPA

Apple-Based Home Control & Automation When your living quarters are as large an airport hangar, turning off the lights before bedtime can be exhausting. That’s why the owners tied them all to a single Apple-based control system.

NYC High-Rise Eyes 18-Source Video Wall The pictures say it all. Three 65-inch Panasonic plasma HDTVs, flush-mounted side-by-side, form a video wall that can display content from 18 different sources. Look even more closely, it gets better.

TapouT Theater Provides Gladiator-Style Enjoyment Punkass is how Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fans know him. He's also known as Dan Caldwell, co-founder and CEO of TapouT, a company embedded in the MMA industry and king of counterculture clothing.

Renovating a Family Room into a Home Theater The owners of this 22 x 18 theater had no intention of updating their 1970s-style basement rec room, but the contractors and interior designers hired for the job couldn't help but bring it up to date.

Installing a Television Over a Fireplace Nothing has come up in local conversations with friends and family as much as what it takes to mount a flat panel television over a fireplace. Be it plasma or LCD, it's a great, big, worthwhile job.

Tips for a Clean HDTV Installation This is a basic guide for cleaning up an HDTV install by routing all of the connection cables between your Cable Box / Blu-ray Player to the display behind the drywall and out of sight.

Using a 103-inch Plasma for Video Gaming At last count, the home had: two Microsoft Xbox 360s, two Sony PlayStation 3s, two Nintendo Wiis and one Nintendo Game Cube... oh, and a 103" Panasonic plasma display system to view them all on.