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Home Theater Top Picks iPad App Now Available
HT Staff  |  Nov 16, 2012
Home Theater's new Top Picks app for your iPad is now available for free at the iTunes App Store.

The app provides instant access to our list of Top Picks recommended products across 12 categories. Each pick has a short blurb explaining why our reviewer's liked the product and includes a link to the full review.

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Home Theater vs. Movie Theater
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
We don't know about your family, but ever since we set up our big-screen HDTV and surround-sound speakers a couple years ago, we've been to the movies exactly . . . once. There's something about enjoying a film with all settings (picture quality,...
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Home Theater Without the Home
SV Staff  |  Jul 15, 2008
Who needs a stuffy home theater to enjoy your favorite DVDs? Next time you're having a movie night, check out the latest offering from Open Air Cinema. This company that made a name in outdoor festival events is bringing their expertise to your...
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Home Theater Workshop
 |  May 01, 2002

Russ Herschelmann (<I>Stereophile Guide to Home Theater</I>'s "Home Theater Architect") will be conducting a special two-day intensive home theater workshop on Saturday and Sunday, June 29&ndash;30, 2002, in Napa, California. For more information concerning what will be covered during the two-part event, go to <A HREF="http://www.home-theater-guy.com">www.home-theater-guy.com</A> and click on "Workshops."

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Home Video Biz Soaring
 |  Feb 09, 2002

The music industry may be in the dumps, but the home video business is soaring, according to a January report from trade journal <I>Video Business</I>.

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HomePNA Unanimously Votes for 2.0 Standard
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 01, 1999

Last week, the <A HREF="http://www.homepna.org">Home Phoneline Networking Alliance</A> (HomePNA) announced that new technology proposed earlier in March by <A HREF="http://www.lucent.com">Lucent</A> and Epigram (now a subsidiary of <A HREF="http://www.broadcom.com">Broadcom</A>) is now the basis for the 2.0 standard for 10 Megabit/second home networking technology.

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HomePod Is Here
SV Staff  |  Feb 09, 2018
Have you seen those hipster TV spots welcoming HomePod? Apple’s long-time-coming smart speaker hits stores today...
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HooToo 3-in-1 Travel Companion
SV Staff  |  Jan 18, 2016
If you travel, here’s a neat little gadget with a name you won’t forget that might be of interest.
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Hopper Fights Hate with VROOM
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 13, 2013
The war against Hopper—Dish Network’s zippy ad-skipping DVR—has taken a couple of new tacks. TV networks hate it because it enables viewers to breeze through brain-damaging ads. They’ve made their displeasure known by fighting Hopper’s AutoHop and PrimeTime Anytime features in court on flimsy copyright-violation grounds, apparently unaware that the Supreme Court sanctioned home time-shift recording in 1984’s Betamax Decision.
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Hot HD Deals From Toshiba And Amazon
 |  Mar 08, 2007

There are some hot deals out there right now for new HD DVD owners and existing Blu-ray Disc player owners. Starting with the HD DVD camp,anyone buying any of Toshiba's HD DVD players between March 1 and July 31st can send a mail-in form to receive five free HD DVDs. On the Blu-ray side, if you're looking to build out your collection Amazon is unloading almost four dozen titles at 50% off of retail.

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Hot New HT Products
 |  Sep 08, 2003  |  First Published: Sep 09, 2003

The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (<A HREF="http://www.cedia.com">CEDIA</A>) Expo is increasingly the venue for new product debuts. Among the hot new home theater products on display in Indianapolis are the world's first cable-ready HDTV, from Panasonic and the world's first combo DVD/DVD-A/SACD player with high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), from Pioneer.

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Hot off the presses!
HT Staff  |  Oct 27, 2002
Consumer interest in home theater has grown by almost 1000% in the past year, according to figures published by the Consumer Electronics Association. But how to make sense of the bewildering array of audio and video products out there? Which ones offer the best performance or most features?
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Hot Streaming HDTV
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 05, 2005

As I mention in <A href="http://www.ultimateavmag.com/scottwilkinson/505sw/">my current column</A>, streaming high-quality A/V content in real time over the Internet is not practical due in part to bandwidth limitations. Currently, DSL and cable modems top out at about 3 megabits per second downstream (into the home), while DVDs typically consume 4-7Mbps of bandwidth, and standard MPEG-2 HDTV requires over 19Mbps.

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Hot Stuff from Da-Lite
HT Staff  |  May 31, 2004  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2004
Da-Lite Screen Company, Inc. may have made its name supplying film screens to the educational and business presentation markets, but the Warsaw, Indiana company hasn't been ignoring the home theater trend.
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Hotels: HDTVs without HDTV
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
This would seem like a small mistake if it wasn't so prevalent. Hotels across the nation are upgrading to flat-panel HDTVs, tossing out those bulky CRT sets and slapping either LCD or plasma sets on the walls. Should look great, right? Seems like...
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