- How To: Setup an HDMI Home Theater
- Digital Trends Guides - January 29, 2009
- Although today’s high-definition televisions (HDTVs) are more technically advanced than ever, the good news for everyday users is that connecting home theater components keeps getting simpler. Thank the advent of HDMI, an all-in-one digital cab...
- Do Expensive Home Audio/Video Cables Matter?
- Digital Trends Guides - January 14, 2009
- The question is as old as the audio-video industry itself: Do high-quality cables really matter? In fact, it may not surprise you to note that it’s even one of the most common questions that custom installers are asked by clients building high-...
- Budget Home Audio and Speakers
- Digital Trends Guides - December 30, 2008
- You’ve purchased a beautiful big-screen HDTV, and now you want a tuneful home theater audio system to go with it. Shopping for a surround-sound system, however, can be mind-boggling. Not only is the difference in quality across the spectrum of ...
- How to Stream Audio & Video in your Home
- Digital Trends Guides - November 25, 2008
- Who could’ve guessed even a few years ago that our beloved PCs – machines once reserved strictly for productivity, web surfing and email – would one day be a hub for all things entertainment-related, including music, TV shows, featu...
- Home Theater Basics
- Digital Trends Guides - November 6, 2008
- So you’ve already got the perfect design in mind and picked out one or two essential pieces of audiovisual hardware? Congratulations: The goal of enjoying a great home theater is almost in sight. Following are just a few crucial tips that can h...
- Home Theater Design Tips
- Digital Trends Guides - November 3, 2008
- The lights go down, the curtains part, the Blu-ray player starts to spin, and the speakers fire. Thus begins the total suspension of disbelief that results from a great home theater. To really pull it off, however, you must consider the entire experi...
- Holiday Preview: Home Audio Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - October 30, 2008
- Serious home audio enthusiasts are in luck this year: There are plenty of great new home theater-ready models just itching to tickle your eardrums for the holidays. Want to see what you’ll be rocking out with well into 2009? Check out the follo...
- Satellite Radio Basics
- Digital Trends Guides - October 21, 2008
- Somewhere up in the sky, beyond the birds, the planes and even Superman, there are satellites whose sole purpose is to make sure you can rock out to Blue Oyster Cult, Bette Midler and Baha Men all in the same hour, all commercial-free, and across sta...
- I Want Wireless Entertainment, and I Want It Now
- PC World Articles - April 29, 2008
- Wireless, multiroom home audio is here, sort of. But wireless HD video is still mostly a pipe dream.
- Clean up your tags with BeaTunes - good data is good for you.
- TechLore - March 25, 2008
- Everyone with a digital music collection of any size has this problem: their music tags are far from perfect. Maybe it's because you ripped the songs from a CD before it was in cddb or one of the other directories, maybe there was no cddb back when y...
- Home Theater Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - March 4, 2008
- Home Theater is, in its most basic terms, a dedicated space in which to enjoy audio and video. From there, the definition becomes far more personal, so to help you make the right choices, you need to ask three questions:“What do you want?&rdquo...
- 7 Facts Audiophiles Need to Know About Digital Music
- TechLore - February 8, 2008
- Remember back in the 1980s when you purchased your first CD? Whether it was Billy Idol or The Psychedelic Furs, imagine if you had gone home and placed the Sony-manufactured CD in your Panasonic CD player, only to find out that it didn’t work. ...
- $1400 in Fashion and Home Audio
- eCoustics Articles - December 20, 2007
- Sansa TakeTV: A First Look
- TechLore - November 19, 2007
- Looking for an easy way to take videos from your computer and watch them on your TV? There are certainly a variety of solutions to that problem available today, whether you decide to burn a DVD, build a media PC, or use one of the myriad of wireless ...
- Little Things You Hate About Home Audio/Video
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - November 15, 2007
- I notice lots of little annoying things about the audio and video products that traipse through my work space in a constant procession. Over time I’ve noticed they’re the same little annoying things all the time—the same trifling mi...