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DIGITAL HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Let us show you the places we see TV, Video and DVD headed...to a HOME THEATER NEAR YOU...

IT IS THE DIGITAL AGE AND WE WILL TAKE YOU THERE...AND KNOCK YOUR BOOTS OFF...

Our screenings will be on cutting edge HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS in various locations around Paso, and out in cowboy wine country somewhere

south and sideways of Sundance...

where you'll be entertained and peek into the digital future that is now.

Gadgets are getting smaller and adopting more interactive features. Flat-screen televisions became thinner and bigger, with Panasonic taking home the prize for its 150-inch screen. Some TV sets started connecting to the Internet, at least in part, to supply information and entertainment from the Web, Blue-Ray wins the battle and the next revolution will be PROJECTORS.

In less than one year, U.S. television stations will complete their transition to an all digital system. And with the transition comes great potential to increase breadth and capacity of program and service offerings. Broadcasters, MSO's, advertisers and programmers across all platforms are scrambling to figure out how their business will change on February 17, 2009.

Industry officials estimate the total market will be between 110 million

and 115 million sets in 2008, up nearly 30% from last year.

Companies are making chairs for home entertainment systems, special rooms are designed as small theaters in the home...custom screens are made for homes, special walls become movie screens...if you want to see more on this new movement in entertainment stay tuned to the PASO ROBLES FILM FESTIVAL...below are some examples from some of the companies that we talking to about being part of the Festival and Expo.

A big part of the Home Theater revolution is the incredible lines of projectors...High Definition Projectors from Epson, featuring 3LCD technology to deliver high-definition 16:9 images with no risk of color break up.  3 chip optical engine up to 1,600 ANSI lumens for brightness levels, ten bit color processing and more...