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Million Dollar Home Theater Demonstration
Wisdom Audio in conjunction with Edge Electronics and the premier custom installation company, Innovations in Home Entertainment combined forces to...
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Modular Entertainment Furniture: The Flexible Economic Solution
Not all that long ago, the only way I could find suitable shelving for my home entertainment components was to design and fabricate my own. These...
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Gibson’s Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox Offers Most Comprehensive Home Music System Available
Gibson Audio, the consumer electronics division of the Gibson Guitar Corp, will exhibit a new line of “digital jukeboxes” designed specifically for...
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HDMI ? Smaller Connector, Bigger Options
For the ultimate in image quality, everyone knows that digital connectivity blows away the old analog approach. Since much of today?s latest content...
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SOHO Storage Solutions
Offices and homes that just a few years ago had stand-alone electronic devices and one PC are now shifting toward hardware devices and computers with...
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Bats in your Belfry? Eagles in your trees? Well by all means, invite them into your living room.
When I grew up in rural Connecticut more years ago than I care to admit to, the term “bats in your belfry” was a metaphor for being crazy. But with...
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Home Theater Media Centers
It is probably safe to say that a majority of the world has entered the electronic age. Virtually everything we do and everything we see is based on...
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For convenience and coolness, put your home entertainment components in a rack.
The “relay rack” was originally used in phone company central offices to hold the equipment used to route calls. Racks can hold a lot of electronic...
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Protecting your CCTV equipment from Lightning
Digital Video Recorders (DVR) with outdoor-mounted CCTV security cameras are prime targets for lightning depending on where the cameras are...
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Understanding Double Layer DVD Recording
While consumers around the world have enjoyed burning their own DVDs for a few years now, the inevitable question of “what’s next” is now upon the...
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The Right Wall Mount Is Critical to Your LCD or Plasma Viewing Experience
As home entertainment enthusiasts, we often do more than our fair share of research before purchasing our audio and video components, but we tend to...
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Panasonic KX-TAW848
Panasonic has dominated the residential phone system business for about 20 years. Lately, they’ve had to compete not only with other phone system...
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Software Issues and the Home Theater Personal Computer
1. Introduction My company, Charmed Quark Software, is the vendor of a software based control and automation system called the Charmed Quark...
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Home Wi-Fi Using Soft Access
More and more homes are subscribing to broadband services, such as DSL, cable modem or fiber-to-the-home, and, as a result, more and more people are...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
X10 Automated Outdoor Lighting
Normally, one uses a motion sensor to control lights directly with X10 commands or indirectly via a “virtual wiring” macro in programs such as Active...
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New Product Makes Cordless Wall Phones Truly Cordless
Whether it’s a cordless phone, combination cordless phone/answering machine or just a plain answering machine, it’s never completely cordless...
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Personal Notification System: Keeps Tabs on the Naughty and Nice
Keeping holiday surprises safe from curious kids and sneaky spouses can prove challenging for any gift giver this season. It’s hard to catch naughty...
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MARANTZ INTRODUCES ITS 42 -INCH PD4240D WIDESCREEN PLASMA MONITOR
Visit http://www.marantz.com for further information As an Official Equipment Sponsor of the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival 2003, Four PD4250s Will Be...
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EATing-in again? Lets’ take the HEAT off you: Electronic Assistive Technology, Smart homes and disabled persons
Providing appropriate technology to support people in their own homes is difficult. Ascertaining needs, real needs as opposed to desires and wish...
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Future-Proofing for Your Home with Carlon? Resi-Gard?
Flexible Raceway Systems Within the past decade residential cabling has changed from Plain Old Telephone Systems (POTS) to Category 3 Cable to...
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Home Theater that Sounds like the Real Thing: iDP Technology Tunes Loudspeakers to your Room
Sound for home theater – the kind of sound that engenders what’s termed, “the immersion experience” – is not dependent on loudspeakers alone. Nor on...
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Pitch Timbre And Quality vs The Subwoofer
The pitch of a musical note is the characteristic that enables us to determine whether it is a low note or a high note. Obviously, the pitch is...
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SLIMP3 Network Audio Player
The SLIMP3 is a network audio device that decodes MP3s to play on your home stereo, streaming them from your PC’s hard drive via your home network...
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DLP, LCD or CRT Projection The Best Choice For Your Needs
True Home Theater – is a dedicated room with insulated walls, comfy seating, a CRT projector, full screen and surround sound. Bearing this in mind...