Bring Your Entertainment Room into the 21st Century

Upgrading your family room to a family entertainment room is expected to be one of the hottest home improvement projects for 2008, and if you're among the millions planning to do it, the best place to start is by deciding how to put the main attraction, your new HDTV, on display.

Popular installation methods include sitting on top of a furniture cabinet, hanging from the wall, or even mounted overhead in the corner of a room. "The possibilities are really endless thanks to innovations in the technology available to support these TVs," says Keith Pribyl, vice president of retail sales for Sanus Systems, a manufacturer of audio video furnishings, mounts and accessories.

The company expects home theater accessories to be popular in the new year, especially its four new VisionMount full-motion wall mounts for medium flat-panel TVs. The new mounts offer features such as tilt, swivel, pan and extend motions, and Virtual Axis 3-D technology for smooth, effortless tilting with the touch of a finger. The LAS1A and XAS1A side speaker mounts that attach to Sanus' large and extra-large full-motion flat-panel wall mounts are also expected to be hot items.

Sanus Systems products are available at thousands of retail locations nationwide. A store locator is available at www.sanus.com.