Customer Reviews

The Savvy Guide To Home Theater

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I had been considering setting up my own home theater over the last year, and with HDTV, Plasma Screens, Dolby Digital Surround sound, and a slew of other items I didn't really understand, I was prepared to listen to the salesguys sell me 'Exactly what you need'.

Luckily for me, my wife picked up this book. It's an easy read, but has all the content necessary to make good decisions about what to buy, where to put components, and what sort of items are really right for the room I was using.

This book saved me several hundred dollars in oversold components I didn't need, and our friends all agree, it looks GREAT!

If you're looking to build your own theater, or even upgrade the theater you already have, and don't want to pay an expert to do it for you, this book is for you.

Easy to read, simple to understand, very helpful. This book was exactly what we needed as we update our home equipment. Provided very good direction on choosing new components. Useful diagrams in planning and setting up our new equipment, too.

It used to be that home entertainment was so simple. You went to the store and bought a TV set, where the only choices had to do with how big a tube and how fancy a cabinet. Not any more.

This book is intended to make sense out of the techno-babble that the salesman is going to give you about modern day equipment. Even the words are changing. HDTV, aspect ratio, LCD and many such terms are thrown about by the salesmen, who may have only a slight hint as to what they mean but whom will try to make you look stupid by throwing them out.

This book covers the current and soon to be technologies to tell you what is important and what is not when you are putting out your hard earned money. It covers the technology in a very general way, explaining what is possible, not the gritty details of how everything works. The book is generally speaking not brand specific. It talks about the general capabilities, not specific brands and models, most of which would be discontinued before you could find one.

This is a very helpful little book.

The star is for the title, which remains the best thing about the book.

From cornball to overblown hype, the information is far from savvy. This is a rip-off of previously published and more helpful guides.