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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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- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setupsYou can always try to get a brand-name on a budget.My husband and I were able to get a brand new 52" Sharp 1080P LCD HDTV for just $1199 a week ago. Most budget brands cost more than that. You just...
- Tags: Home entertainment, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Branding, home theater setup, Holiday Gift Guide 2008, Holiday Gift Guide, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Soundbar speaker systems
- Some enthusiasts want the accuracy of a full surround-sound speaker setup handling their home theater audio output, but judging from the number of soundbar solutions that have been hitting the marketplace, many people are willing to trade fidelity for a single speaker and often a subwoofer...
- Tags: Audio, Home Theater, Speaker, Zvox, Polk, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- MovieManager 2.07 (Windows)
- MovieManager is a fully featured Home Theater PC application that lets you scan your drives to locate movies, identify and catalogue your movies, lookup movie information from IMDb on the Internet, stores your movie information and play movies on your Multi-Media PC using the media players you choose. You can...
- Tags: Home Theater, Movie, Microsoft Windows, RockSolidSoftware, MovieManager, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-12-16
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Three Ultimate HDTVs
- Though putting together a high-end home theater for a few thousand dollars might seem like an awful lot of money in this economy, there are a lucky few who can afford to spend the same amount just on their TV. (Of course, many also choose to...
- Tags: Plasma, Home Theater, HDTV, Laser, 1080p, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setupsDid this article say "High-end" home theater??High-end by whose standards...someone who usually shops at Walmart? I mean c'mon - high end Blu Ray player for $350.00? Denon and Marantz both have Blu Ray players that are over $3,000.00 to start. The stuff listed...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Blueray, home theater, Holiday Gift Guide 2008, home theater setup
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups
- Economy be damned, you want to upgrade your home theater—and do it right—for the holidays (and/or in anticipation of the Super Bowl). If you have the means to spend more than two grand on a set and the hundreds and hundreds more to round out your...
- Tags: Plasma, Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- 2008 Holiday Buying Guide: Midrange home theater setups
- Last week, I gave some recommendations for budget home theater setups. This time, I'm looking at home theater products for a slightly larger budget: TVs that cost between $1,000 and $2,000, plus slightly more expensive components. Even with the additional outlay, it doesn't add up to...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, Video, 1080p, Blu-ray, PN50A550, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, DVD, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide
- Update, 12/4/08: It's been brought to my attention by a diligent reader that several of the products listed in this guide were from 2007, and not this year. I compiled this guide as an aggregation of several listings online; clearly, some of the listings were old...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January release
- Vizio decided to jump the gun on CES and announce some new home theater products today, including a 55-inch 120Hz 1080p LCD for just $1,999.99, another aggressive pricing decision that will once again drag the prices and profits down for the Samsungs and Sonys of the...
- Tags: Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Vizio, VF550XVT1A, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups
- This is the first of a series of buying guides for those looking forward to this holiday season as a time to assemble a home theater system. First up: budget setups. Whether you need to create a home theater...
- Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, DVD Player, Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Prestigo SRU8010, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, DVD, Media Players, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Now hear this: Toshiba's new TLP-X200U projector is first with voice guidance
- A small but strong niche has built up around using projectors either of the LCD or DLP variety as the cornerstone of home theater setups instead of an HDTV. For those thinking about making the switch, Toshiba is attempting to idiot-proof the move with its new TLP-X200U projector, which comes...
- Tags: Home Theater, Toshiba Corp., Projectors, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- First Black Friday ads show up online: 50-inch Samsung plasma for $899.99
- Try as they might, big retailers can't stop their ads for Black Friday otherwise known as the day after Thanksgiving and unofficial start of the holiday shopping season from leaking online often weeks in advance. This year, Sears has the dubious distinction of being the first major retailer of HDTV...
- Tags: Plasma, Home Theater, Advertisement, Sears Roebuck & Co., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Retail Company, Home Entertainment, Retail, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support
- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech supportRemote technology services are flourishingDespite a struggling economy the market for remote technology services - for home theater, gadgets and PCs - is flourishing. I think the reason is twofold - convenience of these services no gas required and getting the...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, technology service, home theater, Wirewize, LG Electronics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support
- Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with tech installations and troubleshooting. Circuit City has Firedog, and Office Depot has Tech Depot Services. Now LG Electronics is trying...
- Tags: Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- QuuxPlayer Standard Edition 2.0.8 (Windows)
- QuuxPlayer lets to listen to your music and get maximum sound quality from it.The Standard Edition is limited to a library of 1,000 tracks and is FREE. Features: The only Windows audio player optimized for home stereo / home theater enjoyment. "HTPC Mode" makes it easy to see all...
- Tags: Home Theater, Music, Quux Software, Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-13
- 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
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