Home Theater

DTV Installations is proud to have received a "Best of Houzz Service” award for the year 2020. This is the fifth time in the last six years that the company has been honored with this award by Houzz, the top online platform connecting residential remodeling and service professionals.

Buying the best home theater audio equipment you can find is no guarantee that you’ll be getting all of the great sound you expect. Unless your system is professionally calibrated, you could be missing out on the clarity, detail and balance a surround-sound home theater should deliver. DTV Installations has the knowledge and experience to calibrate your system properly – and can do it for free.

DTV Installations is delighted to now offer new, fiber optic HDMI cables for all home theater and audio/video systems. This slim and lightweight cable provides all of the convenience of HDMI but transfers signals via pulses of light instead of standard copper conductors. The advantages of fiber that mean your 4K video and high-res sound is delivered lightning-fast and free of interference, to destinations as much as 1000 feet away without the 50-foot limitations of HDMI cables.

DTV Installations is proud to announce the March 16th Grand Opening of its state-of-the-art showroom in Paramus, NJ. It features extraordinary and exclusive home theater and A/V products and extras, in a custom-designed viewing and listening environment that allows you test equipment side-by-side. And experienced DTV Installers are available to advise, consult and help with your choices.

The immersive, thrilling – and sometimes terrifying – 3D video experience isn’t only available at the movie theater. 3D video in your home theater puts you right into the middle of the action without spending $15-$25 for a movie ticket, and it’s not anywhere near as expensive or as complicated as you’d think. Here’s a complete rundown.

3D home theater doesn’t necessarily mean buying a new HDTV or projector enabled for the 3D video many people don’t even like. Dolby Atmos or DTS:X systems create 3D audio for a home theater, delivering the same immersive sound experience as some of Hollywood’s latest blockbusters – and it’s not very expensive to install.

Many people are afraid to even think about installing a home theater because they think it would cost thousands of dollars. It doesn’t have to. You can often put in a quality home theater for hundreds of dollars – not the thousands of dollars you’d expect it to cost.

Is bigger always better? Usually, when you’re talking about the size of the TV screen in your home theater. There are quick and easy ways to figure out just how big you should go.

Buying and setting up a home theater can be difficult, you need to understand the essentials. Choosing the right screen, receiver and Blu-ray player are the first important step.

A complete makeover of a home’s audio and video systems can be completed in just four days, if you have the right plan. That’s how long it took DTV Installations to create the ultimate 110-inch projection home theater for a Darien, CT. homeowner, install a modern video system in his master bedroom, and craft a complete outdoor audio system that can be controlled by smartphone – with all of the wiring and equipment hidden in the walls and basement.

Just as it was once impossible to fully enjoy everything that was available on TV without a cable subscription, it’s now impossible to have a complete high-def home theater experience without streaming video. All that’s required is a high-speed Internet connection and the proper hardware to match your chosen content suppliers. If you’re looking for 4K streaming video, though, the choices are much more limited for the time being.

Once you have a terrific home theater, you need sources for high-definition TV shows and movies. A simple cable or satellite connection may be enough for you, but you can access an infinite supply of programming with a Blu-ray player and/or a streaming video player along with an Internet connection

Buying the right audio and video HDMI cables for home theater isn’t as important as buying the right components, but it’s close. Learn how to judge your needs, and what to look for in a quality cable, before just grabbing one off the shelf

Just because you’re watching something on an HDTV, that doesn’t mean it’s really HD. Some high definition signals aren’t as good as others, and some movies you watch on an HDTV aren’t HD at all.

Invisible speakers—better known as in-wall or in-ceiling speakers—have become increasingly popular fixtures in home theaters across the country. While the concept of an invisible speaker itself is not new, advances in sound quality have made these stereo systems a trendy addition to the living room. Why now, you may ask?

A high-quality projector installation in your home theater can deliver the best video experience imaginable. In some homes, however, a projector can be more of a nightmare than a dream.

Buying the right equipment for a home theater isn’t enough to guarantee the best viewing experience. You must pay as much attention to your speakers, cables and accessories as you do to the screen and receivers.

If you’re building or updating a home theater system, a more realistic task is separating what’s simply trendy at the moment from important home theater trends, which will provide many years of viewing enjoyment.

Do not fear creativity when conceiving your media room. These trends in media room layout are sure to get your design wheels turning.