Home Theater Design

Home Theater Design
Author: Krissy Rushing
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781592530175

The world of home entertainment is changing rapidly, and consumers have a wide range of options. This book will guide readers through all the aspects of creating a beautiful and comfortable home theatre that elegantly takes advantage of media-related emerging technologies and furnishings. Starting with a "whole interior" approach to home entertaining, the book takes readers step by step through an examination of current technology, space planning, acoustics, functionality, lifestyle, and overall aesthetics with the goal of planning and designing an entertainment system that's right for you. All types of spaces are addressed, from small urban apartments to spacious, multipurpose living areas to full-blown dedicated theatre spaces.

Creating a Digital Home Entertainment System with Windows Media Center

Creating a Digital Home Entertainment System with Windows Media Center
Author: Michael The Green Button
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2006-04-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132713179

Even though the Windows Media Center interface is simple to operate, not all activities are intuitive or easy to implement. You may need help determining which type of Media Center PC to buy, or with connecting and configuring the Media Center PC in your home theater system. Creating a Digital Home Entertainment System with Windows Media Center book brings the experience and expertise of The Green Button (the premiere Media Center website) and author Michael Miller to help you plan, use, and troubleshoot your new Media Center PCs and get the most out of Windows Media Center Edition.

Home Theater for Everyone

Home Theater for Everyone
Author: Robert Harley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Home entertainment systems
ISBN: 9780964084926

A home entertainment system is among the most expensive purchases a household will make. This book provides the information consumers need to choose, install, and use home entertainment equipment. Beginning with an overview of home theater components, this book explains surround sound and THX, audio/video receivers, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and video displays. The DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) format that is the size of a CD and holds up to four hours of spectacular quality video and digital surround sound is also discussed.

Home Theater Design

Home Theater Design
Author: Krissy Rushing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Home entertainment systems
ISBN: 9781610594233

A guide to planning and designing a home theater system that fits the user's lifestyle, space, and budget.

Customizing Your Home

Customizing Your Home
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release:
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781610602877

In these pages, you'll find dozens of projects to help you create the custom-quality look normally found only in the most luxurious homes. Ranging from decorative paint treatments to impressive carpentry additions, each project includes complete instructions with step-by-step photography.

Introductory Guide to High-performance Audio Systems

Introductory Guide to High-performance Audio Systems
Author: Robert Harley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic apparatus and appliances
ISBN: 9780978649302

In 12 fact-filled chapters--covering everything from stereo to multichannel music to home theater--discover how to choose the best components for the money, how to match components fore the best sound, and how to set up and fine-tune a system for maximum performance.

Build Your Own Home Theater

Build Your Own Home Theater
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2001-09-18
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0750673303

Written to provide information on all price ranges of equipment to everyone from the beginner to the experienced home theater owner, Build Your Own Home Theater has been completely updated for today's audience. This new edition contains valuable consumer information on the latest digital home theater components and technology, including digital surround sound receivers, DVD players, digital television & HDTV, digital satellites (DBS), digital camcorders, and digital hard-drive video recorders. It also features easy-to-understand explanations of surround sound technology and set ups-including Dolbyâ Digital, THX Surround EXTM, and DTS-ESTM. If you are interested in audio, video, and home theater technologies, this book will give you the information you need to choose the right components, hook the pieces together, and create a fabulous theater experience right in your own living room. When the first edition of Build Your Own Home Theater was published, decent home theater systems were primarily only affordable for wealthier consumers. Now, several years later, the technology is accessible to millions of homes as products such as wide-screen televisions, digital surround sound audio, DVD Video and Audio Players, and digital satellite systems have become commonplace. Though most people don't have actual home theater set-ups in their living rooms, more and more consumers are trying to combine components they already own with new high-tech components to create an affordable home theater experience. Complete with important home theater Web site addresses and resources, Build Your Own Home Theater, Second Edition is a comprehensive, current, and well-researched text. Beginners to advanced home theater consumers, Videophiles, technicians, engineers, and electronics hobbyists from all walks of life will especially find it invaluable. *"Dolby" and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks and "Surround Sound EX" is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. THX and Lucasfilm are © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights are reserved. Used under authorization. DTS and DTS-ES are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Covers all of the hot digital technologies and how to tie them together into one amazing home theater experience for budgets from $1,500 to $15,000 New edition includes cutting edge technology from Digital Surround Sound to High Definition and Digital Television, DVD, Video Hard-Drives, Digital Satellites, and much more

The Home Edit

The Home Edit
Author: Clea Shearer
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0525572651

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit (with a serious fan club that includes Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling), here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home. “A master class on how to arrange even your most unattractive belongings—and spaces—in an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-navigate way.”—Glamour (10 Books to Help You Live Your Best Life) Believe this: every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great. The mishmash of summer and winter clothes in the closet? Yep. Even the dreaded junk drawer? Consider it done. And the best news: it’s not hard to do—in fact, it’s a lot of fun. From the home organizers who made their orderly eye candy the method that everyone swears by comes Joanna and Clea’s signature approach to decluttering. The Home Edit walks you through paring down your belongings in every room, arranging them in a stunning and easy-to-find way (hello, labels!), and maintaining the system so you don’t need another do-over in six months. When you’re done, you’ll not only know exactly where to find things, but you’ll also love the way it looks. A masterclass and look book in one, The Home Edit is filled with bright photographs and detailed tips, from placing plastic dishware in a drawer where little hands can reach to categorizing pantry items by color (there’s nothing like a little ROYGBIV to soothe the soul). Above all, it’s like having your best friends at your side to help you turn the chaos into calm. Includes a link to download and print the labels from a computer (you will need 8-1/2 x 11-inch clear repositionable sticker project paper, such as Avery 4397).

The Audio Expert

The Audio Expert
Author: Ethan Winer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1136126147

The Audio Expert is a comprehensive reference that covers all aspects of audio, with many practical, as well as theoretical, explanations. Providing in-depth descriptions of how audio really works, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies with minimal math, the book is written for people who want to understand audio at the deepest, most technical level, without needing an engineering degree. It's presented in an easy-to-read, conversational tone, and includes more than 400 figures and photos augmenting the text. The Audio Expert takes the intermediate to advanced recording engineer or audiophile and makes you an expert. The book goes far beyond merely explaining how audio "works." It brings together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics, showing how they're intimately related. Describing in great detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers, the topics include video production and computers. Rather than merely showing how to use audio devices such as equalizers and compressors, Ethan Winer explains how they work internally, and how they are spec'd and tested. Most explanations are platform-agnostic, applying equally to Windows and Mac operating systems, and to most software and hardware. TheAudioExpertbook.com, the companion website, has audio and video examples to better present complex topics such as vibration and resonance. There are also videos demonstrating editing techniques and audio processing, as well as interviews with skilled musicians demonstrating their instruments and playing techniques.

Popular Science

Popular Science
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2003-07
Genre:
ISBN:

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.