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This Is Lifehacker, Episode 13: Build the Ultimate Home Theater, Make Great Homemade Popcorn, and Always Go Cheap with HDMI Cables


This week's episode of Lifehacker is all about creating the best home theater experience in your living room, whether you're building your own media center, saving cash on cables, skipping annoying previews, or just making some tasty popcorn.

In all, this episode highlights how to:

This week's downloads of the day include XBMC, HandBrake, and StreamToMe.

We've been incorporating more original video with our posts in the past year, but the Lifehacker show represents a fun new supplement to the site. It doesn't replace what we do here every day, but our hope is that it will offer a new perspective on a few of our favorite tips. In season one, we've:

  1. Learned a little about surviving the urban jungle

  2. Upgraded our office and hid our cords

  3. Hacked our weekends with a few of our favorite outdoorsy tricks

  4. Untangled your wires and boosted your Wi-Fi

  5. Cracked Windows passwords, padlocks, and Wi-Fi

  6. Shared some of our favorite clever repurposing tricks

  7. Supercharged your camera, took better cameraphone pictures, and painted with light

  8. Customized our phones, laptops, apartments, and so on

  9. Made better coffee, cut an onion without crying, and saved time with no-knead bread

  10. Scored free money, made free phone calls, and got free space on Dropbox

  11. Set up remote access to our home computers, remote controlled our BitTorrent downloads, and set up a remote security camera

  12. Saved a soaked gadget, make the ultimate workout playlist, and stay cool this summer

Grab it in any format you like: If you don't want to watch it in your browser right now, you can catch the show wherever you want, and in nearly whatever format you like. Visit the episode page on Revision3 to download HD or phone-friendly versions of the show in MP4 or WMV. You can also subscribe in iTunes or via RSS, watch it on YouTube and subscribe to our channel there.

Hack Your Home Theater: Rip Movies, Fix Scratched DVDs, and Set Up XBMC! | Revision3


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