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Home Theater For Dummies 1st Edition
The fun and easy way™ to create the movie theater experience in your own home
Are you ready for HDTV? Checking out surround sound and DVRs? This value-priced guide clearly explains the latest advances in home entertainment electronics and makes sense out of all the available choices. It then helps you choose the right equipment and shows you how to put it all together to build the home theater system of your dreams!
The Dummies Way
- Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
- ISBN-100764518011
- ISBN-13978-0764518010
- Edition1st
- PublisherFor Dummies
- Publication dateApril 11, 2003
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.1 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
- Print length336 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"...clear and concise...a good read throughout..." (DVD Monthly, July 2003)
"...superb at demystifying the murky and often bewildering world of home cinema...written in plain English...worth the investment..." (Hi Fi Choice, July 2003)
About the Author
Pat Hurley is a noted expert in home networking and related technologies.
Product details
- Publisher : For Dummies; 1st edition (April 11, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0764518011
- ISBN-13 : 978-0764518010
- Item Weight : 15.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.1 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
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My advice: buy this book, read it, and afterwards *still* do what I did. Only save the sales droids for last (by then you'll know more than they do), and look but don't buy. Then go home and buy what you want at Amazon.
However, it suffers from excessive use of parenthesis and side notes and confusing run-on sentences. Also, the explanation of key topics such DVI and a display's aspect ratio still leaves the reader highly confused. The trouble seems to stem from the fact that neither author has a deep grasp of the home theater technologies and they might have just lifted all this information from various sources and put it in book form.
Since the book is cheap on Amazon, I still recommend it to all newcomers to the wonderful world of home theater. If you need more information, get the optimizer discs the books recommends and also check the web for detailed discussions.
It does need to be updated. PC and network information are old, so are some of the things around emerging standards. It could also do with some pictures and wiring diagrams - I am no dummy with electronics, but had difficulty understanding what was mean by a central panel, that could be placed in my basement or some place out of sight.