Yesterday, at launches in Seattle and London, Microsoft just may have staked its claim to space in your future living room. Hoping to take on the laptop as your home-based center of connectivity to the world, they introduced their new console, the Xbox One. Below, some details on the system that aims to be an indispensable part of homelife...

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Even when I was little, I was flummoxed by friends and relatives that would keep the TV on in the background: are you watching or not? Why add noise to the world? I held onto that point of view for decades, but now, after three years of living alone, I find myself soothed by the sounds of Liz Lemon's misadventures unfolding in the next room...

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On a tight budget? When times require a little tightening of the budgetary belt, one of the best places to look to cut is in the category of extraneous home entertainment costs. But everyone still wants to keep options available to sit back and relax to some entertainment occasionally. Here are six steps you can take to cut down on your expenses without sacrificing your enjoyment.

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For most apartment and home owners, the idea of a dedicated media room is wishful thinking. Usually a basement, spare bedroom, or in this case, the living room has to be designated for home entertainment purposes. But that doesn't necessarily mean having to settle for "as-is". Check out this living room-to-media room makeover, the final results are an extremely plush spot for the owner to enjoy movies with his 110" HD projection screen setup...

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Any home theater aficionado will tell you audio is just as important as a top notch picture. Try watching a movie on mute with close captioning and you'll obviously notice something important is missing. 

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Spring means mid-season TV premieres, and at my house we're all giddy with anticipation for new seasons of Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and Mad Men . The only problem? Avoiding spoilers whilst doing some casual internet browsing feels a little like navigating an entertainment mine field.

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Spring holidays give us rituals for cleaning, decorating, hosting, and eating. The Jewish holiday of Passover begins the evening of March 25, and it involves all four tasks in abundance: dinner table decor for this holiday has been under scrutiny since, well, time immemorial. More

There's a bit of debate going over in this Reddit thread whether painting the brick was the right choice or not, but I think overall this den makeover resulted in a big improvement . The owners transformed a traditional den into a modern home theater space with large projection screen, hidden flat speaker wires, and audio system, ready for the finishing touches before movie night...

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Did you know that you don't always need a paid Hulu Plus account to access many of the movies they offer? While the streaming site is popular for catching up on TV shows, Hulu also offers a decent library of movies that are free to view... More

Recently, The New York Times ran an article about the phenomenon of "marathoning" or "binge-watching" television. And while the article initially starts out talking about House of Cards, the first series created specifically for Netflix, I found the later part to be the most fascinating… More