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.

Dear Lifehacker,
I'm tired of transferring my movies and TV shows to my PlayStation 3's hard drive whenever I want to watch them. It says I can stream media from my computer via UPnP, but I'm not sure what that means or how to set it up. Help!

In its latest update, much-beloved media center application XBMC added one-click add-on installation, bringing browser-like extensions to your Media center. If you've ever wanted to incorporate watching TV, listening to podcasts, or playing video games to your XBMC box, the new add-on system is incredibly easy to use,…

We love our games and consoles, but there's a big world that lies beyond the product you pull out of the box. Your console is capable of so much more than you may realize. Here are our top 10 video game hacks and DIY projects to prove it.

iOS: We recently showed you how to install XBMC on your 2nd-gen Apple TV, but if you're looking for a more mobile experience, XBMC has just been released on Cydia for jailbreaking iPhone and iPad users.

Smartphones are versatile devices, but they resemble a familiar shape: the remote control. iPhones and Androids embrace this form with some of the coolest remotes you could hope for. Check out Lifehacker's picks for the best remote apps for iPhone or Android.

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I have a large music and video collection but the audio levels are all over the place. How can I normalize them so I don't have to constantly adjust the volume myself?

/:16 Windows/Mac/Linux/Apple TV: Open-source media center application Boxee gained a lot of popularity for seamlessly integrating web-based TV shows with a remote-friendly, ten-foot interface. Now they're aiming to bring more web-based movies to their Movie Library.

A modder by the name of Bandit5317 created this amazing mod of an original Xbox, cramming in a 320GB HDD (though no optical drive) in the process. It took six months to build, but looks absolutely amazing.