BDI is the premier choice for home theater furniture for good reason. Cabinets and TV stands are engineered with integrated features that make them more than simply a place to hold your components. BDI home theater furniture helps to create a completely integrated home theater, protecting and presenting your system for many years to come.
This online video will guide you through some of the key features of BDI home theater furniture. Learn more about the features that make BDI the most thoughtfully engineered available today by rolling over the performance feature icons below.
Learn more about the features that make the BDI difference by watching this informative video.
Units with this icon include a concealed compartment designed for use with a center channel speaker. The compartment may be a drawer or a shelf that includes a speaker-fabric panel front, allowing the speaker’s sound to come through. Select models allow the drawer to be removed completely, revealing a finished shelf that allows for larger speakers.
BDI’s furniture features only the finest quality materials and finishes. Sturdy construction and steel or interlocking-panel supports provide a strong foundation for your home theater. Additionally, BDI specifies only the finest European-style hardware. Door handles and other metal details are beautifully finished. The unique soft-close hinges on most door assemblies, for example, are fully adjustable to ensure that doors hang evenly, swing smoothly and close gently.
The best place for a TV is sometimes the corner of the room, but common rectilinear TV stands may be too wide to effectively use the space. BDI designs that feature this icon are specifically engineered for positioning in a corner, maximizing the space with a minimal footprint.
Furniture that features this icon includes a mounting bracket that allows the user to mount a broad range of flat panel TVs directly. Cables are kept out of sight, neatly routed through the sturdy steel support column. Refer to individual model specifications for recommended TV sizes.
Need a little more versatility? Units with this icon feature an integrated swivel mechanism. With just the touch of a hand you can rotate the design to get a better view from almost anywhere in the room. Swivel the unit for easy access to connections, or just to turn the screen away from unwanted light.
BDI home theater furniture is engineered to keep the usual tangle of cables and connections neatly under control. Cabinets feature removable back panels for easy access to the rear of components. Integrated routing channels provide space for speaker and TV cables to be neatly concealed. Open TV stands feature a back panel with generous cable-routing openings. Whichever model is chosen, the user can gather and secure all cables out of sight by using the supplied Velcro® closures.
Floors can be quite uneven and your home theater needs to be level for optimum performance. BDI designs with this icon include easily adjustable levelers to compensate for minor leveling issues in flooring or to correct minor panel-alignment issues. Home theater cabinet that feature hidden wheels include integrated levelers that are readily accessible from inside the cabinet, allowing the cabinet to be lifted up off of its wheels to secure it in place, if desired.
Because components come in many shapes and sizes, BDI’s home theater furniture features shelves that can be adjusted to accommodate a wide range of systems. Shelves rest on unique steel shelf pins, which are rubber-padded to minimize vibration of components, and high-quality threaded inserts allow you to readjust shelf positioning as needed. In general, BDI home theater cabinets are adjustable in 1.25-inch (32 mm) increments, while shelves in open TV stands can be set at one of several preset positions.
In order to perform at peak levels, components not only need to look cool, they have to stay cool. BDI cabinets facilitate airflow through generous ventilation slots integrated into the bottom panel, wood shelves and removable back panels. Cooler air is drawn in from the bottom of the cabinet, while hot air is naturally expelled out the back. BDI’s open TV stands are fully ventilated, with open shelving providing the ultimate in heat dispersion.
Practically all of the glass used by BDI is tempered glass (also referred to as toughened glass). Tempered glass is virtually shatterproof and four to five times stronger than standard glass. When used for shelves, tempered glass is strong enough to support the heaviest components. Tempered glass provides a higher degree of security from breakage.
All of BDI’s furniture is designed with ease of use in mind. Grey tinted glass doors and windows keep components out of sight yet are compatible with the Infrared (IR) signals used by many remote controls.
BDI home theater cabinets are innovatively engineered with removable or sliding back panels. BDI builds our cabinets in a unique way so that the backs can be removed effortlessly for easy access to components and connections. Need to accommodate a very deep component? The back panel can be left off the cabinet without sacrificing any structural rigidity, allowing the component to extend from the back as needed.
