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Not your traditional TV entertainment center or your traditional cabinet, one ImportAdvantage’s newest TV lift cabinets, the Bermuda Run TV Lift Cabinet, is a perfect reproduction of an antique luggage trunk use by ocean and rail voyagers of the past.

Hand-constructed of wood and hand-cut wicker matting, the Bermuda Run TV Lift Cabinet features ornate leather accents on the handles and cabinet perimeters, fitted by hundreds of antique nail heads and finished with a distressed patina, and since it is finished on all four sides it can be used at the foot of the bed, against any wall in your home or as a free-standing centerpiece.

The Bermuda Run TV Lift Cabinet will house most TVs between 32” and 47” and the heavy-duty rack and pinion TV lift comes pre-installed. Attaching your TV to the TV lift takes only minutes!

The pop-up TV cabinet also comes with three power outlets for a TV and two pieces of AV equipment, which fit snugly and a safely under the TV on their own media trays.

The Bermuda

If you are shopping for a new TV this holiday season, especially a flat-screen to fit in your TV lift cabinet, and you have a naturally bright living area or den, it is important to know which kind of television works best for rooms with lots of light.

Between LCD TVs and Plasma screens, both will provide outstanding picture quality and major advances in technology, such as app-capable systems and 3D-viewing. However, each TV will give you entirely different results based on their environment and viewing angle.

If you plan on viewing your TV from an angle, an LCD screen is not the right choice, as the LCD screen uses backlight and pixels, which open and close like a shutter. The further you move to the side of this “shutter” the greater the variations in picture brightness across the screen.

Plasma screens are self-lighting, which means they contain two transparent glass panels with a thin layer of pixels between them. Each pixel contains three gas-filled cells – one for red, green and

Do you consider yourself a “trendy” TV-owner? Do you get a couple goose-bumps every time you raise your flat screen TV out of your TV lift cabinet? Are you also either planning to upgrade your TV or give one as a gift this holiday season? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, check out this list of the Top 5 Trendy TVS for 2010!

Before we launch right into the list, you should have a basic understanding of what makes a TV worth its weight in pixels. As you know, TVs range in price and quality, and if you don’t know what all those numbers and refresh rates mean on the sticker, you might get more than you need or, worse, not enough bang for your buck.

So let’s start with contrast ratios. Especially for larger TVs, resolution is highly important. The contrast ratio is the difference between the darkest and brightest colors the TV can display. It’s important that this number be very high. Good televisions offer at least a 6,000:1 contrast ratio.

Another important factor for buying a

In mid-November, Amazon.com debuted Amazon Studios with the intent of soliciting screenplays from its users which (hopefully) will be produced into feature-length films with Warner Bros. Pictures. This means that novice and beginning screenwriters and filmmakers hoping to land that big contract may have a chance at making their dreams come true. It also means that winners can one day watch their hit movies on a TV screen that pops up from a TV lift cabinet from ImportAdvantage!

Already Amazon Studios has received more than a thousand scripts, and in honor of this milestone Amazon Studios announced a bonus contest, awarding $20,000 to each of the two best scripts uploaded by December 31, 2010. This bonus contest is in addition to the planned $1.1 million in awards Amazon Studios will give away in 2011, including $1 million for Best Movie and $100,000 for Best Script.

Submissions are being accepted in two formats: scripts and test movies. Full-length test movie entries must be at least 70

Do you know you are in the market for a TV lift but you are not sure which one you want? ImportAdvantage has made it easier for you to decide by putting together a Comparison Chart for all their TV lift cabinet models. Now you can compare, side by side, the features and benefits of owning any one of our handcrafted pop-up TV cabinets.

Listing everything from price, overall dimensions, maximum storage space behind the doors, drawer storage, finish, hardware and the life expectancy of the TV lift mechanism, the ImportAdvantage Comparison Chart makes shopping online for a TV lift a snap.

Where else can you get so much detail, so many features, laid out for you so cleanly and neatly? If only all online shopping were this easy! ImportAdvantage not only designs these TV lift cabinets, but manufacturers them as well, so we know every detail and every inch put into their production. You would be hard-pressed to know a product so intimately if it were constructed overseas and shipped to the company

If you might be shopping for a new flat-screen TV and TV lift cabinet this holiday season, you will want to ensure you find the right match. Luckily, ImportAdvantage has made is easy to find the right handcrafted pop-up TV cabinet for your new TV with a convenient Measurement Guide, which you can print and take with you to the store.

Whether you’re looking for a smaller flat-screen for your bedroom, or ready to upgrade to a 60” centerpiece for the living room, ImportAdvantage has a beautiful, hardwood TV lift cabinet that will accentuate your new TV in style. And to give you plenty of choices to match your home’s décor, ImportAdvantage makes their pop-up TV lift cabinets versatile, fitting TVs of all sizes.

When ImportAdvantage lists a recommended TV size on the Measurement Guide, it’s listed as the Max TV Dimension, meaning you can fit a flat-screen up to that Max size. So when you are out shopping for the TV in your budget, you can easily see which of the many TV lift cabinets fall into

ImportAdvantage has tested the limits of craftsmanship with the Pine Valley TV Lift Cabinet. Built from salvage-grade Caribbean Pine, this fine wood is wire-brushed and distressed so its natural tones and textures in the grain are brought to life.

Accentuated with a hand-applied, weathered pine finish and protective top coat, the Pine Valley TV Lift Cabinet is capped off with decorative brass hardware fittings and ImportAdvantage’s heavy-duty TV lift.

The Pine Valley TV Lift Cabinet can house a TV measuring up to 46” wide and 29” in height. It fits perfectly against any wall in your home and comes standard with ImportAdvantage’s free In-Home White Glove delivery and 1-Year Warranty.

One of the unique features of the Pine Valley TV Lift Cabinet that sets it apart of the rest of the ImportAdvantage line is that the media player storage area is integrated with the center lift unit, and you can store two pieces of media electronics right beneath your TV.

To find out more about the Pine Valley

Will you be shopping for a new HDTV this season? You may already what screen size will work best in your TV lift cabinet, and you might have a trusted TV brand in mind, but do you know what resolution you’re looking for and why it’s even important?

Currently, the highest standard screen resolution available is 1080p, which means that no matter what your source of media images is (satellite, cable, DVD player, gaming console, streaming device, etc.) your TV will be able to display it to its fullest resolution.

The “p” in 1080p (as opposed to “i”) means the TV offers a progressive-scan. This technology allows your TV to scan the media image in one scan (instead of needing multiple scans) and display it on the TV screen, so you get a sharper picture that is stable and solid.

Most 1080p TV screens are measured as 1920 x 1080, which gives you the number of pixels in the screen: 1920 x 1080 equals 2,073,600 pixels! And as one might imagine, the more pixels in the screen, the sharper the image

Last month, Panasonic announced that its line of 2010 VIERA CAST televisions is now capable of streaming Netflix movies without the need for an external streaming device. This new capability complements the VIERA CAST’s current ability to connect users to Skype, Twitter, Pandora, Picasa and local weather and news.

Netflix currently has about 15 million members and is the largest subscription service for streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet. Previously, Netflix members could only stream movies and TV episodes via a computer, capable gaming console (i.e. XBOX 360) or a streaming device (Roku player). Now, with the VIERA CAST, movies can be viewed from the comfort of a home TV and more room will be available in one’s entertainment center or TV lift cabinet.

Imagine, having more room in your ImportAdvantage TV lift cabinet to store DVDs, games, books or keepsakes. These fine handcrafted pop-up TV cabinets are already generous in their storage space, but by being able to reduce