- 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...
- Holiday Preview: Home Video Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - November 14, 2008
- While the weather outside is indeed frightful, gathering around the fireplace has never been more delightful thanks to cutting-edge advancements in home video hardware. Don’t have access to the Yule Log DVD, let alone in high-definition (HD)? E...
- 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...
- LCD or Plasma HDTVs: Which to Choose?
- Digital Trends Guides - October 30, 2008
- The war between plasma and LCD flat-panel TVs rages on, and no doubt you’ve heard the propaganda from both camps. While LCD has traditionally been more expensive than plasma at the larger sizes, that gap is diminishing—making other factor...
- HDTV Tune-up Guide: Improving Picture Quality
- Digital Trends Guides - October 28, 2008
- You’ve made the investment in a new HDTV, but ask yourself: Are you really getting the most for your money? Something many new HDTV owners might not realize is that they likely aren’t enjoying the best possible picture quality right out o...
- Verizon FiOS: Issues, Problems and Trouble
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - October 27, 2008
- When Verizon first announced their FiOS service, I was naturally convinced that it would be the next evolutionary step in Internet and home connectivity. Being the early adopter that I am, I quickly signed up for the service, expecting faster speeds ...
- Digital TV Transition Survival Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - October 17, 2008
- For most of today’s primetime audience, the questions are simple. For example: Which HDTV to buy? Whether to catch tonight’s episodes of The Office and Grey’s Anatomy or record them to DVR instead? And, of course, our personal favor...
- Xbox 360 Media Server Setup
- Digital Trends Guides - September 22, 2008
- Got an Xbox 360? Use it to connect all the video, photos, and music on your home network and view them on your TV. In this step-by-step guide, we'll show you how to set up a UPnP sever on any Windows or Mac computer so the Xbox can access it, and the...
- Playstation 3 Media Server Setup
- Digital Trends Guides - July 21, 2008
- My digital media was scattered among various drives, computers, and discs. I wanted seamless central control over all of it, so I decided to use my Sony PlayStation 3 as a media hub, with my 40-inch Samsung HDTV as a monitor. Now I can view or listen...
- Create Your Own Blu-ray Video Discs
- PC World Articles - June 30, 2008
- From shooting great video with your HD camcorder to playing the footage back on your HDTV, here's how to turn your own home videos into high-def Blu-ray masterpieces.
- 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...
- Wireless-N: More Speed and Range For Your Network
- TechLore - March 1, 2008
- Wireless networking has become so common in the average household; virtually everyone is connected to the internet wirelessly with their laptops, game consoles, and other devices. More recently, it's become important for users to have the speed to st...
