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Understanding Projector Screens
A projection screen cannot be taken in isolation from the rest of the environment in which it will perform ? matching the projection screen and in...
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Create a wireless sensor network using WIFI and web services.
Using low cost hardware available from retail vendors, a wireless sensor network can be constructed using WIFI. In a earlier article here at Home...
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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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Power Protection in the Home Theater: Surge Suppressors Guard Expensive Electronic Gear
The use of power line conditioners, surge suppressors, and ac regenerators represent an effective insurance policy for your expensive home theater...
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How To Wire Your Home For Modern Entertainment And Control Systems
We live in great times. You can listen to virtually any music at the touch of a button. Your favorite music can fill your entire home. You can see...
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Ahhh, just phone it in! Nokia’s new camera phone makes imaging easy
Usually the expression “phone it in” refers to an uninspired, dreary performance, but with the introduction of Nokia?s new Observation Camera, the...
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Flat Panel Mount Installation: Tips and Techniques for Success – Top 10 Countdown
Flat panel displays such as plasma and LCD screens are quickly gaining popularity for use throughout the home. According to the Consumer Electronics...
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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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The Right Screen for the Right Scene Liquid Crystal Display Televisions Find Their Place In the Home
Long gone are the days of single television homes. In today?s household, the Smith?s are not gathered around the bulky television that sits on the...
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An Order for High-Def Audio, Hold the Big Box
There is a commonly held opinion among audio enthusiasts that great sound emanates only from speakers with large cabinets spread throughout a room...
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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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Use a Webcam and Sensors to Create Your Own Web-Enabled Monitoring System
Have a home, apartment, doors, windows, water heaters, weather that freezes, or spaces to watch? Then read on. Combining your broadband connection...
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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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HTI+ and CEDIA Exam Guide
Ron Gilster is the author of several best-selling books on networking, PC hardware and IT career certifications. He has worked in IT and computing...
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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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Drop-In RF Module Solutions for AMR Systems
Introduction In the utility industry today, the only constant is change. Many utilities are already using wireless Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and...
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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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The Truth About True HDTV: How Do You Know You’re Truly Getting It?
High-definition television has been growing in popularity since its inception in 1996, and today, it?s starting to really take off among consumers...
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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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Future of Home Theater Immersion: Linear-Direct-Drive
Crowson Technology’s TES 100 (Tactile Effects System) is taking Home Theater by storm. Patent-pending Linear-Direct-Drive? tactile technology adds...
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Internet Telephony Coming To A Cable Outlet Near You
Legacy networks that support only analog services like telephone and television are giving way to ones that support the digital convergence of data...
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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...