A Touch of Gray………Gray Market That Is….
The gray market is a market in which retailers and online sellers "get" large quantities of a desirable product through unauthorized channels and are able to sell them cheap, in many [...]
Edmonds Home Theater Automation Upgrade
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest was scheduled to reprogram this client's Pronto TSU 6000 remote for them after they had upgraded some equipment. After arriving onsite and surveying the system for this [...]
Roche Harbor Home Theater Upgrade
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest got this call to help the clients integrate a non-pro Logitech Harmony universal remote that a big box store had sold them to replace their aging [...]
Rumor Mill Restaurant Video Distribution-Friday Harbor
Call The Rumor Mill: For info, reservations, etc. 360 378 5555 and on Facebook: here Project Overview Theater Design Northwest provided and installed a ZeeVee 150 localcast video distribution system in this [...]
Bellingham Dual Home Theater Apartment Installation
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest was called by one of our great repeat clients to re-install their 5.1 system when they moved to a new place. It was time for expansion [...]
Bellingham 7.1 Home Theater in a Living Room
Project Overview This great project was for a neighbor that had been considering adding surround for some time, she is totally happy with the video quality on her Samsung 55" LED [...]
Kinetics Acoustics
David from Theater Design Northwest participated in the Kinetics Acoustics training webinar for their new Illumination Room Acoustic Analysis system. This innovative service offers unprecedented design accuracy of room acoustic treatments [...]
Whidbey Island Home Theater Upgrades/Whole House Repairs
Project Overview Some new clients with a beautiful bayview estate in Freeland called; their high end theater was acting up, with the whole AV system shutting down on loud transient movie [...]
Spectracal Video Calibration Pro Course
Yesterday David from Theater Design Northwest attended the Spectracal Pro Calibration Boot Camp in Seattle. The course for professional calibrators covers everything from video basics to advanced calibration of display technologies [...]
Point Roberts 7.1 Home Theater “Man Cave”
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest was called out to beautiful Point Roberts, WA for sytem verification/calibration of a nice client-installed dedicated 7.1 projection theater. The clients had done a great job [...]
Harman International Mobile Showcase
Today the staff of Theater Design Northwest attended a product training session in Bellevue that took place in the awesome Harman International Mobile Showcase, a mobile semi trailer showroom of the [...]
Bellingham HDTV Upgrade
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest was called in to upgrade these clients to their first HDTV. We installed and setup all sources, extended the client's cable feed to their rolling entertainment [...]
Vashon Island Pronto Remote Upgrade
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest subcontracted with a Seattle AV integrator partner to do the Pronto universal remote programming on this great waterfront Vashon Island home. The 3 zone system included [...]
Friday Harbor System Setup for Home Theater/Whole House Sound
Project Overview This was a new client for Theater Design Northwest that had a nice existing system with 5.1 surround in the family room and multizone whole house sound. The clients [...]
Op/Ed: Localcasting, Streaming Content, The Future of Home Entertainment
Our demo area is a real family room where we use, enjoy, demo and carefully evaluate technology in order to make qualified recommendations of systems for our clients. In other words, [...]
Bellingham Family Room Surround Sound Upgrade/Automation
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest installed 5.1 surround sound, calibrated audio and programmed an MX-450 RF remote control in the family room of this great home. The client and his contractor designed [...]
New Website
We're excited to announce the launch of our new website with improved navigation, better image quality and generally just better in any way we could conceive! The project is a collaboration between us [...]
Sebastian In Bellingham
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest sponsored video calibration and HD video feed of the Olympics opening ceremony for the Sebastian In Bellingham Preview Party held on the opening evening of the Olympics in February 2010. [...]
Lynden, WA New Construction Projection Theater
Project Overview Theater Design Northwest was hired as technical design consultants right before the walls were covered on this high end custom home theater built by the clients. We redesigned the wiring [...]
Lynnwood, WA-Home Theater Update, install HTDVs
Theater Design Northwest designed and installed this premium home theater system in Lynnwood, Washington. This project included a complete home theater upgrade, video calibration, remote control programming, and the installation and set up of HDTV's throughout the home.
Is professional calibration neccessary?
[frame_left]http://www.theaterdesignnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/brightness-e1267221329955.jpg[/frame_left]Why is Professional Calibration Necessary? For marketing reasons, TVs are shipped with hyped settings from the factory. The vivid and dynamic settings usually look bright and garish in a home environment, [...]
