You can now expect to see Control4 in Best Buy's Magnolia stores. Currently Control4 sells through tweeters and have been involved with Circuit City in test trials. There is a lot of bread at stake in the housing market. Out of the 1.5 million homes that will be constructed next year, only 4 to 6 percent of them will be […]
Read moreIf you already own two 10 or 15 Metre HDMI cables, you may wish to join them together rather than buy a new 20 or 30M cable paying anything upwards of GBP100. You will therefore need to invest in an HDMI booster of some description, as joining together anything more than a couple of 2 or 3 metre cables with […]
Read moreThe basic $9.99 universal remote from Radio Shack really doesn't cut it in the Home Theater environment. Certainly it is an improvement over handling multiple remote but its unlikely to win any "favours" from your significant other. The Harmony line of remotes from Logitech doesn't quite step into the HA realm (yes I know about the 890), but it does […]
Read moreBenQ Introduces New LCD TVs Featuring Premium Surround Sound and Display Enhancing Technology 32, 37, and 42-inch displays incorporate SRS TruSurround XT® sound and AMVA technology providing improved sound and image quality TAIPEI, TAIWAN, November 22, 2006 – BenQ today introduced three new VH-line LCD TVs, the 32-inch VH3243, 37-inch VH3743 and 42-inch VH4243. The TVs are aimed at […]
Read moreThis week's HT Guys podcast features a few interesting stories for the HT enthusiast like RCA's teleceiver and a new TiVo feature that allows you to share videos on the web. The focus of the podcast is archiving of your media and how to distribute to your home. They also talk about a construction project and how media distribution is […]
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For those of our readers in the US who have yet to pass out due to turkey-itus, Happy Thanksgiving! We thank you for your participation and helping to grow our community. So kick back and relax. You deserve a day off. For our non-US readers…. get back to work and post in the forums! Just kidding. We appreciate our […]
Read moreI have been preaching this for a long time! Never buy the extended warranty on CE devices! It is a big money sink and a way for the big chains to make an extra buck. From the article: Two possible exceptions There are two caveats to our just-say-no advice: It's worth considering an extended warranty if you're buying a rear-projection […]
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How much would you pay for a 37" LCD with a built in media-center type software? If the answer is $1999, you're in luck! Apparantly HP feels that people are willing to spend $700 more for this feature vs their 37" without it. I'm a little baffled, but hey, seeing the overwhelming success of all the other TV/Media Center combos, […]
Read moreIs the PRO-FHD1 Plasma worthy of its "Elite" heritage? To date, no one will claim that plasmas were the darling of the videophiles among us, however, it appears plasma technology has matured enough where it may make more then a few people change their minds. Somewhat shocking, at least for me, was that you get no tuners what so ever. […]
Read moreIf you wander around any major AVS site, more often then not you will see Denon's name thrown around. Not only do they do the higher to mid range stuff very well, they have a great practice of technology creep into their lower models. Secrets has taken a quick look at the 3930CI from Denon and ran it through the […]
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