By Adam Pash

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:

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.

Team Lifehacker will be taking a short hiatus from the full show after this episode, but during that time we'll continue releasing a lighter weight version of Lifehacker for your viewing pleasure. We'll be back with full episodes in August.

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