The Secrets of Home Theater by Mike Wood - Peachpit press - TechTV

With HD TV, Surround Sound, digital satellite, and more, the options for home theater systems are ever expanding, and what used to be a simple matter of plugging in a TV and connecting a few cables has become a far more complex undertaking. Here to untangle the wires and make sense of the choices confronting you today as you set up your home theater is a guide from the folks who do it best: TechTV! In true TechTV fashion, author Mike Wood distills the process into the need-to-know essentials that will have you viewing flicks before the day is out. By focusing on three primary steps--determining sources (DVD players, satellite receivers, VCRs, and music servers), figuring out how to control those sources (receiver, preamp, and so on), and then choosing how and where to display them--Mike delivers the information in easily digestible chunks that you an choose to build on (or not!). Buying tips, cool factoids, and sound setup advice round out the offering!

This is a cool book that provides a high level look at the basics for creating your personal home theater system. Whether your preference in watching big screen moves, having sports in your face, or listening to rock and roll or classical blasting your ear drums, you will find information to help you design, buy and install your personal home theater set-up. The book covers a wide range of technologies form big screen, digital and HDTV, to DVR and DVD recorders, to how to pick out and set up your speakers for optimal listening environment.

He spends a lot of time covering audio and sound - how to pick out and set up your speakers, how to configure your speakers and furniture to get the best possible audio performance. Even how to tweak the audio settings to make your system sound great.

Mike Wood also covers the plethora of cables and input/output connections that you might find when installing your own home theater system.

If you are about to buy a home theater system, or if you already have one but want to figure out that you did wrong and how to fix it, this new book from Peachpit Press, "The Secrets of Home Theater" will be very helpful. If you have a non-techie friend or relative in this situation, and you don't want them bugging you all the time, this might be the world's best present for them

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