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Home Theater Hideaway
Michael Gaughn  |  Feb 18, 2002

You wouldn't know it to look at the "mine's bigger than yours" installations featured in some home theater magazines, but having a decent amount of money to spend on a whole-house audio/video system doesn't necessarily translate into gaudy opulence. Or, to put it another way, modesty isn't always dictated by a limited budget.

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Home Theater in a Box
Rich Warren  |  May 19, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza Knowing how deep a spell all-in-one home theater systems have cast over DVD fans everywhere, we decided to divine just how much magic was hidden within four such systems: the Denon DHT-1000DV ($1,300), Panasonic SC-ST1 ($1,000), Sharp SD-AT50DV ($800), and Yamaha DVX-S100 ($800).
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Home Theater Info Center
 |  Dec 31, 2007

•Shopping Guide to Home Theater Find the HDTV, DVD player, and surround sound system that's right for you.

•Setup Screwups We diagnose five of the most common problems ailing home theaters - and prescribe the right medicine.

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Home Theater Made Easy
Rich Warren  |  Apr 22, 2004
Picking the right home theater system can be a lot like picking the right horse at the track - especially if you're looking for a complete system in a single package. Manufacturers are flooding the market today with low-end home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) systems that cheap out on the thrills and chills.
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Home Theater Plus
Jamie Sorcher  |  Jul 03, 2006
Taking the Big View The ceiling-mounted Yamaha DPX-1300 DLP projector (foreground) beams its image onto a custom-made 140-inch diagonal Stewart FireHawk screen.

A lot of us dream of having a room of o

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Home Theater-conomics: 10 Ways to Beat the Great Recession
Karl Tennant  |  Oct 13, 2008

It's a rough time if you like money. Every day brings worse news from the markets, and looking at your investment portfolio is more depressing than watching your favorite sports team get blown out in the playoffs. Companies are tightening their spending (no travel!), some to a ludicrous degree (no paper clips!), and it only makes sense that regular Joes do the same.

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Home Theater: Digits Triumphant
David Ranada  |  Aug 05, 2001

The annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) doesn't often generate a notable quote. Then again, last April's conclave in Las Vegas was the occasion for a notable event - the surprise appearance of the legendarily reclusive filmmaker George Lucas at a Sony press conference.

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HomePlug & I
 |  May 04, 2006

Editor's note: When Sound & Vision needed a family to test HomePlug - the new technology that sends A/V signals through your house's electrical wiring (see Power Play) - reader Kevin Post, a home theater enthusiast and a regular on the S&V Online Forums, filled the bill nicely.

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Homespun DVDs
Al Griffin  |  Dec 31, 2004

They say memories are precious. Well, if that's the case, why do so many of us have years of treasured moments captured on videotapes gathering dust in closets? Recordable DVDs would make a better resting place for your home videos.

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Hot New Products from CES 2007
 |  Feb 12, 2007

CES Photo Galleries

Editors' Choice Awards Ceremony See the people behind the products (and the awards) for the best audio and video gear of 2006.

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Hot Topics - Summertime Cool
Jeffrey Spaulding  |  Jul 09, 2001

Cool began with jazz - be-bop in particular, which still is cool. In the '60s, it meant stuff like bell-bottoms - which aren't cool anymore, unless a girl's wearing them. A guy wearing them as a joke could be cool, I guess, but the lines are kind of fuzzy there. Afros definitely aren't cool anymore, at least not on white guys - or at least not at the moment.

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How Green is Your C.E.?
Rebecca Day  |  Dec 05, 2007

New school of thought: You're only as "green" as your plasma. And by "green," we're not talking about how accurately your flat-panel generates that primary color. We're saying maybe you should look into just how eco-responsible your consumer-electronics-makers are.

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How I Put Audyssey Room Correction to Work for Me
Thomas J. Norton  |  Dec 05, 2018  |  First Published: Dec 04, 2018
Room correction is a process by which you eliminate (or I should say, attempt to eliminate) the nasty acoustic qualities of a small room. Many variables are at play, not the least of which are the acoustic characteristics of your room, but today’s room correction systems can be very helpful in improving room response. Here I share my recent experience with one of these systems.
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How Low Can You Go?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 05, 2005

Walk down any city street and you'll see nearly everyone sprouting earbuds and singing along to music heard only by themselves. Call me old-fashioned, but that bugs me. Back in the day, people who heard voices and music in their heads were thought to be witches and were burned at the stake. Today, they're just "Podding."

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How Much Bandwidth Do You Need for Streaming Video?
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jul 16, 2012
For those who stream video from online sources, the speed at which data can be sent into their home is critical. If your connection isn't fast enough, streaming video can sometimes stall as it fills the buffer in the receiving device, or the content provider might send a lower-quality stream because it senses that your available speed can't handle anything more. So how much speed do you need?
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