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Setting Up a Home Theater The room, the gear, the installation -- here's what you need to know |
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April 2004
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Conquer Multimedia-Center Cable Clutter Five steps to an orderly home theater and media center. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006
Eric S. Fellen |
Wire It Yourself Carving holes in walls may seem like a no-no, but it's the only way to run (and hide) Ethernet, television cables, and even extra power jacks. Here's how. |
Home Toys
December 2005
David Frey |
How to Hide the Wires Most consumers agree that the best wire is a hidden wire. Here are three options to hiding yours. |
PC World
March 2006
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Harmony's Works-Through-Walls Remote Well-designed universal remote includes radio frequency capability. |
Popular Mechanics
September 15, 2009
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How to Install In-Wall Surround-Sound Speakers: DIY Tech If you follow my advice you won't make the mistakes I did, and you'll be done in about 3 hours. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008 |
Your 6-Step Action Plan to Brighter Closets How to install a 120-volt fixture in your dark closet |
Home Theater
July 2002
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Speaking of Wire . . . Inside tips from the pros can save you hundreds of dollars in speaker-wire installation costs. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Bob Hetherington |
Avtrak Rotating A/V Equipment Rack Have you noticed how many wires are needed to set up even the simplest of home theater or stereo systems these days? If you have 3 or 4 components the back of the cabinet can turn into a quagmire of knotted cables that makes Einstein's hairdo look orderly. Enter the rotating A/V rack. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2005
Lawson Wong |
Surround Sound Showdown Getting 3D acoustics at home is a tough challenge. Can virtual systems keep up with multispeaker setups in a listening test? |
This Old House
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Future-proof Wiring Feeding your home's ever-growing need for information-carrying capacity... |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2004
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Shrinking Your Entertainment Center The bigger-is-better school of audio equipment could be on its last legs. The towering rack of AV gear that most audiophiles point to with pride might shrink away to a single box--if that--by decade's end. And it won't be with any loss of quality. |
Home Toys
June 2005
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Speaker Cables and Interconnects for Your Home Theater Out of all audio and video components we buy, perhaps the most misunderstood and underestimated are the cables we connect them all together with. Selecting cables for your home theater system is an important task. |
Home Toys
October 2004
Tom Grounds |
Home Theater Project: Media Room Finding the right place for everything in your home theater system. |
Home Toys
April 2005
Steve Faber |
How to Wire Your Home for Modern Entertainment and Control Systems As content delivery over broadband increases, especially with the advent of HDTV, bandwidth demands will skyrocket. Using a wired network will help ensure uninterrupted delivery of your favorite programming. |
Home Theater
October 2001
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Russound A-BUS A-BK1 Four-Zone Music-Distribution System This A-BUS makes it easy to "Take the 'A' Train" in any room in your home... |
Home Toys
June 2006 |
Home Theater Design and Construction Part 6: Component features and performance. The good news is that home theater equipment is better than ever, and more affordable to boot. In addition, there is much help available, on the Internet or from one of the many qualified custom installation firms in most areas. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
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The Cable Guide: Know Your Computer and TV Wires The different wires that are needed for your home entertainment equipment are listed here. |
Linux Journal
March 21, 2006
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The Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) Project Want to build an infrared remote control for your laptop, MythTV or hidden computer? Learn how. |
PC Magazine
January 25, 2011
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Gear4 UnityRemote Even though button pushes can feel a little slow, the Gear4 UnityRemote is an easy-to-use add-on that can turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a universal touch screen remote control for your entire home theater system. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Stefan Willmert |
Home Wiring: What Should You Do? As you may realize, preparing your home for technology requires some thought and planning. Take a little time now to layout your plans according to your needs and lifestyle, and you will save yourself headaches as technology changes. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Stuart Lindsay |
Installing Residential Modulators In Homes With Digital Cable Television Most residential modulators have output ranges on the CATV band from Channels 65-135. Since the output of the modulator and the digital cable signals are on the same frequency, they cannot be combined onto the same coaxial cable without interfering with each other. |
Home Theater
November 14, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Xbox 360 Universal Remote The Harmony Advanced Universal Remote Control for Xbox 360 is designed to provide gamers and home theater owners with a single remote that can completely control their game console and any of the other components in their entertainment system. |
This Old House
Duo Dickinson |
Clothes Encounters Here are a handful of ideas that can improve the function of any closet, regardless of its size or what items you stow in it. |
PC Magazine
July 22, 2008
Griffith & Rist |
Build a Future-Proof Home Network Enter a new age of digital entertainment -- and avoid unnecessary upgrades and hassles -- by future-proofing your home network with the fastest high-end technology available. |
PC World
September 2005
Dan Tynan |
I've Been to the Mountin' Top: Tips for Hanging Your HDTV Shopping for a big flat-panel HDTV is easy. Paying for it is a little more complicated. But the true challenge is figuring out where to put it once you get it home. |
PC World
August 2004 |
Home Theater in a Box These five all-in-one systems pack cinema-style sound, DVD players, and more--just add popcorn, a big-screen TV, and your favorite movie. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009 |
The Ultimate Outdoor Digital Playground There are several ways to throw music directly from PC to patio, and there's one simple way to control it all. |
Home Theater
February 2005
Kevin Hunt |
Sony DAV-LF1 DVD Platinum Dream System If not for all the wires, Sony's wireless DAV-LF1 DVD Platinum Dream System would be absolutely dreamy. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2002
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How To: Set Up A Home Theater System There's almost nothing stopping you from quickly and easily setting up a home theater system for a reasonable price... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
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Remote Control Delving into the world of remote control hackers, this author/engineer develops a new appreciation for these humble devices. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2000
Merle Henkenius |
Installing an Attic Fan You may not spend much time thinking about attic ventilation, but if you own your own home, you owe it to yourself to give the subject serious thought... |
PC World
January 2005
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The Ultimate Remote Want one clicker that can do it all? I cleared the coffee table and tested four controls designed to streamline home entertainment management. |
Home Toys
February 2006 |
Media Center Audio System Logitech Z-5450 Digital Wireless 5.1 Surround System Logitech, combining its expertise in wireless technology with its leadership in high-performance multimedia speakers, has delivered an original new surround-sound speaker design that solves the unsightly cord problem without adding any additional components. |
This Old House
Anna Holbrook |
Clearing the Kitchen Air Want cleaner kitchen air? Replace that recirculating range hood with a ducted model. Here's how. |
AskMen.com
March 13, 2001
Peter Richmond |
Buying The Best Home Theater If you're going to buy a home theater system, do it right the first time. Is it really worth the expense and trouble of shopping around? Yes... |
| This Old House |
Installing a Bathroom Vent Fan It's the best way to expel moisture-laden air and odors -- and we have step-by-step instructions for adding one. |
This Old House
Joseph Truini |
Installing a Ceiling Fan A step-by-step guide to putting in a versatile and stylish fixture |
Home Theater
March 26, 2002 |
Flat, Thin Cable Leaves No "Footprint" Speaker wiring is one of the most problematic aspects of any home theater installation. Many of the best grades of speaker cables are big and bulky, making them impossible to hide. DeCorp's new "FlatWire Ready" speaker wire, claimed to be the world's thinnest, may be the answer... |
Home Toys
April 2005
Larry Holben |
Total Room Home Theater: What is is? Prior to installing a new home theater, consideration needs to be given to everything from the ground up starting with the floor. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Richard Gensley |
Structured Wiring: Home Beauty More Than Skin Deep Infrastructure wiring in the walls adds significantly to the excitement of the home. Having the wire in place for connecting computers, security cameras, home theaters, and a host of automation features, makes it so you can take advantage of new and exciting equipment when it becomes available |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Parker-Perry et al. |
Smarter Homes We take you inside three of the smartest homes in America to show you what they've done and how they did it. |
Home Theater
November 2001 |
The Good, The Better, & the Best We construct the best home theater systems at three price points: $1,500, $3,000, and $5,000... |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
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Near-Perfect Harmony Finally, a universal remote that programs itself. |
Home Theater
September 2005
John Higgens |
Universal Remote Roundup One For All URC 8910... RadioShack Kameleon 6-in-1... URC-100 Unifier... Sony RM-AV2500... Logitech Harmony 676... |
| This Old House |
No Less Than 52 Skills You Need to Survive Homeownership From pulling nails without denting trim to getting a big paint spill off your carpet -- fast fix-it advice when it's time for you to do your homeowning duty. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Prasanna M. Shah |
Structured Wiring For Whole House Music Distribution This article describes ways of taking advantage of structured wiring for whole-house music distribution. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Ideal Remote Controls Combining a remote with a controller can bring back the joy of having a simple remote control. Done right, there is no need to "understand" how the entertainment equipment is wired, nor a need to learn how to control it. It just works. In fact, it passes the babysitter test. |
Home Toys
October 2005 |
Harmony 688 Advanced Universal Remote All in all, this is a fantastic remote. It's simple enough for family use, yet powerful enough for professionals. |
