In this Your Technology report, News 13's Adam Balkin begins a series of reports that will highlight the latest technology demonstrated at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

This report is on what is hot in home entertainment.

There's a saying that goes, "A good home must be made, not bought."

With a good home entertainment center, you would have to be pretty handy to pull that one off. But setting up all the high tech gear and making it fit well into your home is at least getting easier.

If you want to jump right into the whole high-definition DVD arena, for example, several developers of Blu-ray technology, like Samsung, Sharp and Panasonic, are developing Blu-ray home theater in a box.

"For all those people who have high-definition TVs and want to get in on the high definition world of Blu-ray, it gives them one complete elegant solution," said Gene Kelsey, of Panasonic.

Sony integrates Blu-ray in a big way into its Media Home Server, a different kind of box designed to store anything and everything you'd ever want to watch on your high-definition TV or computer. 

"It features a 200-disc Blu-ray changer and burner. Additionally, it has a 500GB hard drive so I can store my personal photos, my personal home videos and access it seamlessly and easily from one remote control," said Gregg Nole, of Sony.

"I can hear my wife now. Yeah, one remote control with so many buttons, I can't even figure out how to get the TV on," Balkin said.

Logitech's Harmony 1 Advanced universal remote not only has a touch-screen up top, it also comes to the rescue should anyone get a bit frustrated if they can't figure it out.

There is also some neat TV technology from Texas Instruments that requires you wear glasses -- but they are not 3D. It is called  DualView.  Thanks to the magic glasses, two people, sitting right next to one another can be watching entirely different programs on the same TV. When you flip the switch, you can switch what you see.

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