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- Home Theater
- An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear....
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- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...
- Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Sony releases wireless streaming, DVD, and input modules for Bravia HDTVs
- Figuring that people would rather hide home theater components in the back of their TVs than somewhere else, or, God forbid, actually display them out in the open, Sony built into its recent Bravia LCD HDTVs the ability to accept modules that could bring additional functionality...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, HDMI, Module, DVD, Wireless, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Panasonic Blu-ray Home Theater Preview
- ZDNet got a demonstration of Panasonic's new DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players, which debuted at CEDIA 2008, as well as the company's SA-BX500 receiver. Here's a photo play-by-play of the presentation. Go back to the original article: The Toybox: Panasonic Blu-ray Home Theater Preview by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Panasonic, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca, product photos, home theater, toybox
- Image galleries 2008-09-24
- Welcome to ZDNet's new Home Theater blog
- Welcome to ZDNet's new Home Theater blogInstallation, installation, installationCome on... you all know as well as me that HT installation fees can easily cost just as much, if not more than double the amount of equip. purchased. Please add this section (e.g. professional vs. DIY)RE: Welcome to ZDNet's new...
- Tags: Home entertainment, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Blogging, Network technology, new Home Theater blog, Home Theater blog, home theater, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Welcome to ZDNet's new Home Theater blog
- I'm happy to introduce our new Home Theater blog, the latest to join the ZDNet blog lineup. I'm pulling double duty here, as I already handle the SOHO networking blogand there's more and more overlap between the two categories these days. With HDTVs and home theater products becoming a greater...
- Tags: Home Theater, Blog, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Panasonic Blu-ray Home Theater Preview
- Your faithful editors here at The Toybox got a demonstration yesterday of Panasonic's new DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players, which debuted at CEDIA 2008. We snapped photos, took notes and got a general sense of the company's new home theater products (the demonstration also included the company's...
- Tags: Panasonic, Home Theater, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat
- LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...
- Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- AT
- ATOff again?If you look at the Plan Details today, AT&T has apparently removed the WiFi offer yet again. I'll have to stop by the local Starbucks to see if it indeed does work, but with them pulling it from the site it doesn't look good again for iPhone owners.RE: ATI...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Wireless LANs, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Panasonic TH-46PZ85U
- Panasonic rules the plasma roost, outselling other brands and rolling out a massive suite of models to compete against LCD in 2008. The TH-PZ85U series may be the most exciting of the bunch, thanks to its improved black-level performance, the holy grail of home theater image quality. The 46-inch...
- Tags: Home entertainment, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, TVs, Panasonic, Panasonic TH-46PZ85U, plasma
- Product reviews 2008-04-17
- Gallery: AMD launches Phenom chips
- AMD launches new triple-core and quad-core Phenom processors which are chips for the high-end power player and the home theater enthusiast. by Andy Smith
- Tags: chips, AMD, processors, home theater
- Image galleries 2008-03-27
- 25 mln home theaters by 2013
- Both AV form factor home theater PCs and more traditional home theater PCs will grow to an installed base worldwide of 25 mln by 2013, ABI Research says. by AM
- Tags: Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- HDMI survival guide for home theaterUm,the 1960s ended ;)It was UHF not UHV and it is still there.That is where the digital channels are placed.We still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is badWe still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is bad or insufficient. ...
- Tags: Network technology, home theater, HDMI, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- There's a lot of money to be made in the HDMI cabling and switch aftermarket and unfortunately that means a lot of consumers are getting tricked in to paying outrageous prices. I've spent quite a bit of time helping my friends set up their home theaters recently and I thought...
- Tags: Home Theater, HDMI, Cable, HDMI Splitter, DVI, HDCP, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Best Buy: Home theater; MP3 players; digital cameras and video game sales soft
- Best Buy--a proxy on consumer technology demand--said Friday that January sales slowed enough to force the company to lower its earnings and revenue projections for the fiscal year ending March 1. By the numbers, Best Buy said it expects fiscal 2008 earnings to be $3.05 a share...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Home Theater, MP3 Player, Video Game, Video, Digital Camera, MP3, Camera, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Home Entertainment, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Best Buy gets framed
- If you were the recipient of a new Insignia digital picture frame for the holidays, you may have gotten an extra bonus with your gift. Turns out the 10.4-inch Insignia model (NS-DPF10A), which was available at Best Buy, included a virus that could allow the frame to...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Home Theater, Virus, Insignia, Home Entertainment, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Security, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- First look at the ATI Radeon HD 3870
- First look at the ATI Radeon HD 3870Would of been nice to know this beforehand...Since I just recently upgraded my 9800 Pro AIW AGP to an SLI motherboard cause I couldn't find any acceptable Crossfire alternatives to the SLI versions.Oh well, I ain't gonna return my motherboard, cause now I'm...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, GTS 640, card, ATI Technologies Inc., ATi, ATI Radeon HD 3870, home theater, ATI Radeon
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Company unveils IP-enabled, iPod-friendly home theater distribution tech
- Company unveils IP-enabled, iPod-friendly home theater distribution techD/A convertersSo if every speaker receives digital audio data via IP, then every speaker has to have its own Digital-to-Analog converter, right? I'm not sure that having 20+ D/A converters, mounted inside your walls, is the most efficient architecture.
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Digital music, Digital media, home theater distribution tech, D/A, IP, home theater, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Company unveils IP-enabled, iPod-friendly home theater distribution tech
- Picture this. You've got a big house, with a really nice home theater. But what do you do to route the sound from your home theater system to the other rooms of your house? Yes, I know. Problems, problems. But let's not cop...
- Tags: Home Theater, Device, Apple iPod, IP, TheaterLinX, TheaterLinX Device, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- The view from 10 feet (Using Windows Vista as a home theater hub)
- The view from 10 feet Using Windows Vista as a home theater hubNetwork Speed?Ed, I noticed that you had your machine physically plugged into the network. Did you consider wireless at all? Or is your home hardwired everywhere? Also, what speed network are you running? Thanks.What...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, home theater, cable, card, network
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- Using Windows Vista as a home theater hub
- Thinking of using Windows Vista's Media Center in the living room? Follow along as Windows expert Ed Bott offers a guided tour to his Vista-powered home theater setup.
- Tags: screenshots, 3D, Keyboard, Home Theater, Media Center PC, Performance, Living Room, Backup, Logitech, Microsoft Windows Vista, HDTV, Story, ATI Technologies Inc., Windows PC, Connected Corp., Music, Vista Media Center, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software
- image galleries 2007-08-23
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