Build Your Home Theater In a Weekend (Paperback)

by Gareth De Bruyn (Author), Cub Karabian (Author) "Home theater is built on the principle of stimulating entertainment reality through audio and video products..." (more)
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Product Description
Want a front-row seat at your own movie theater? If you are interested in re-creating the movie experience at home, then look no further! Filled with information on the hottest trends in consumer electronics, this book will help you choose video, system-integration, and acoustics equipment. It also offers basic installation information and news on the hottest electronics, including HDTV and DVD. This do-it-yourself guide will help you find out how easy it is to build a home theater in just one weekend.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade; 1 edition (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761527443
• ISBN-13: 978-0761527442
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #837,298 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 17 in The In a Weekend Series.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lousy title, Great book, July 4, 2001

By	Tyler Frank (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

I picked up this book knowing there was no way I could really build a home theater in one weekend. I'm not sure what the authors were thinking naming it this. However, just flipping through it there was such great material I kept wanting to read more. Anyway, the short of it is that it took me about a month to really research my home theater and do it right, but this book was an excellent guide along the way. The authors do a great job giving you advice on how to build a home theater which can scale. Something you can enjoy now, but upgrade later without replacing the entire system. I'm not sure if my wife likes that idea too much, but she realizes that my toys make me happy. However, to her credit, after I put this set together and put on Armageddon, she was completely blown away by the sound and visual effects. Best thing, the authors tell you how to hide the speakers/components if other parties don't like watching the awesome lights dance.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read., February 14, 2002

By	D. Yoshikawa (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is for the begginer. It may be overly simplistic for some people. I found I had to skim over a lot of material but it did answer those areas I was a little vague on. He is very wordy when it comes to how to connect components describing in detail every possible combination. Simple diagrams would have saved reading through a lot of pages. Over all the book delivered on what it promised but I still feel I need to look for something more advanced but for someone just starting this is a good book to start with.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money and a Weekend!, October 25, 2002

By A Customer

Try more like a month! This book overpromises and is written in too confusing a manner to follow. I would have gotten further just reading my electronics manual.