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Click below to enter... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest How to Hire & Manage an Interior Designer If you are in the process of building a theater or maybe someday looking at adding to or remodeling your home to include a fantastic, purpose-built home theater, the likelihood is you are going to be working with an interior designer. Much like knowing lawyers and paying taxes, they are a necessary evil. The choice you make in picking an interior designer is essential in the success and budgeting of your project. In most states, there are literally no significant barriers to become an interior designer. In California, where I recently finished remodeling a 1950s �post and beam� home, the guy who maintains my SUV or the guy who washes my hair at my Beverly Hills salon must have state certification, thus insuring at least a cursory level of expertise. An architect has to have years upon years of technical and artistic training before he or she can start building homes, and with each project, a city�s design review oversees your project relative to their codes and standards... Click below to read more... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/howto/interiordesigners/index.html More RHT "How-To" Articles Is Convergence Finally Upon Us? http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/howto/convergence/index.html The Lost Art of the Home Theater Demo http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/howto/artofthedemo/index.html Click below for the RHT "How-To" article archives... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/howto/index.html White Noise Reviewed by Abbie Bernstein Rating: Three-and-a-Half Stars If you�ve ever been even mildly unnerved by anything about your high-end recording equipment besides its price, �White Noise� is here to kick your fears into overdrive. Where �The Ring� played upon urban myth fears of a cursed videotape, �White Noise� spreads the creepiness to all videotape � and audiotape, cell phones and computer recording equipment, too. Michael Keaton stars as Jonathan Rivers, a successful architect married to equally successful author Anna (Chandra West). The couple are blissfully happy, but one night, Anna disappears. Grief-stricken and determined not to give up hope, Jonathan notices he�s being tailed by a stranger, Raymond Price (Ian McNeice). When confronted, Raymond tells the disbelieving Jonathan that Anna is dead � and has asked Raymond to pass along the message that she�s safe and happy. However, when Jonathan�s cell phone receives a call from Anna�s phone � safely tucked away in a drawer � and then the police show up at the door announcing they�ve found the body, Jonathan is a little more inclined to listen to Raymond. Raymond, it turns out, is fascinated by Electronic Voice Phenomenon, EVP for short, in which recording �white noise� or an empty video signal sometimes captures what sound a lot like words and even images from the dead. Click below to read more... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/movies/revs/whitenoise.shtml Meridian Leader in Digital Home Theater Technology, Adds Powerful New Room Correction System First to identify jitter, first to offer an audiophile CD player, and first with a digital surround processor, Meridian Audio is the acknowledged leader in digital home theater technology. In a ground-breaking new upgrade to their flagship 861 processor, Version 4 adds unique Meridian Room Correction, automatically measuring room resonances and controlling them with powerful DSP. The result: smoother room response and a stunning improvement in sound. Visit http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/meridian.html or call 404-344-7111 for more details. The Linn UNIDISK� 1.1 universal digital disc player �True Convergence� with Compelling Audio and Video Performance Regardless of Format The UNIDISK 1.1 player is the world�s first �true convergence� pitch accurate source component and unites a comprehensive range of disc formats. An original Linn design, the UNIDISK 1.1 player is an integrated universal digital disc player that establishes the highest sonic and video standards and delivers universal disc recognition and precise processing for all major optical digital disc formats. Combining unsurpassed sound and picture quality with simplicity of use, the UNIDISK 1.1 player is, in the unique tradition of Linn source products, engineered to deliver compelling levels of audio and video involvement regardless of format. Visit Linn to learn more: http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/linn.html Revolution Home Theater Featured DVD Reviews Read More Michael Keaton DVD Reviews on RHT... Pacific Heights Pacific Heights is an attempt at an urban thriller based on an unusual threat -- the loss of a house -- and it almost works, due to Melanie Griffith and the powerful, eerie performance of Michael Keaton. Matthew Modine tries hard, but the role called for someone intensely likable, and Modine simply isn't. He's a decent enough actor, but the camera doesn't "love" him, and his character is bad-tempered and impulsive, so we lose sympathy for him, and patience with the film, all too quickly. Pacific Heights was called the ultimate yuppie nightmare, because it centers on a couple who are in their early thirties, live in a city -- San Francisco -- and have ambitions, and because the film centers on property ownership, which is classically a yuppie issue. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/pacificheights.shtml Clean and Sober Clean and Sober is a very good, very dark look at an addict/alcoholic struggling with sobriety. Although the movie was made 17 years ago, it doesn't seem dated; the dynamics of substance abuse seem to be much the same today. Director Glenn Gordon Caron makes shrewd use of Michael Keaton's trademark smart-ass persona, casting him here as hot-shot real estate salesman Daryl Poynter, who checks into a rehab program to hide from some legal problems. Daryl initially supposes that he's only pretending to be a cokehead and a drinker, but as his life continues to spin out of control, it gradually dawns on him that he really does need help. The material could easily be preachy, predictable or just plain TV-movie dull, but Tod Carroll's knowing script and Caron's careful direction make Clean and Sober compelling and real. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/cleanand.html Check out our DVD review archive. 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