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Home Theater For Dummies 1st Edition

3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Select the best equipment for your home theater

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

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...exhaustive and uncomplicated..." (Camcorder User, August 2003)

"...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

Danny Briere is CEO of Telechoice, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm.

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
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2004
Wish I'd bought this when I first started researching home theaters. I was a novice, having purchased only a couple of 27" analog sets in the past 15 years. Rather than starting with a book like this, I researched mine the time consuming way: talking to knowledgable friends; wasting time with sales droids at electronic stores, reading home theater magazines. About two months later things reached critical mass and I could finally make an informed decision.
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2004
For someone who's entirely new to home theater -- from A/V receivers to speakers to display monitors to hooking everything up -- "Home Theater for Dummies" offers a quick primer on the subject. It covers both sound and sight and gives honest opinions on many things.
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2005
This book is a bit dated. But since I am really a dummy in this area, it has been good to bone up my knowledge, as I gear up to buy and build up a audio home theater - I skipped most of the stuff on the video chapters as I don't plan a movie theater at home.

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.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
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