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Three Home Theater Projectors to Show Off*
Friday 10 June 2005 – 07:00
Video projectors are rapidly becoming a must-have for many seeking the home theater experience as prices have dropped from the outrageous to below $6,000. While dozens are available, we short listed three projectors from Mitsubishi, Optoma and Sony as among the best offered in this price category. -
Building Your Home Theater Around the PC*
Friday 11 March 2005 – 06:00
You want your home theater now, but don't want to spend the money. Building one on the cheap with your PC has been possible for some time, but is the alternative finally up to snuff compared to a more traditional set up? -
DIY Home Theater PC Part II: The Quiet and Powerful Equation*
Tuesday 28 February 2006 – 06:45
In our second attempt to build an optimal HTPC, we were finally able to find powerful and quiet components. Installation and set up weren't so bad either.
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CES 2007: Bill Gates announces Windows Home Server*
Monday 8 January 2007 – 09:47
You probably have computers with gigabytes maybe terabytes of pictures, songs and videos, but how do you manage it all? In his traditional CES opening keynote, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced the Windows Home Server and explained how the technology automatically backs up your data and makes it available through the Internet.
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Digital Living I: Turning Your Home PC Into A uPNP Multimedia Streaming Server*
Wednesday 26 September 2007 – 10:06 in Consumer Electronics
Turn your home PC into a video source for your digital living room. With the right software, virtually any system can be upgraded to a multimedia server, making it compatible with numerous receivers that support the uPNP standard.
Today, most multimedia ...
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How To: Diary of a New Home Network - Part 3*
Thursday 16 February 2006 – 03:40
In this final installment, Tim Higgins makes a bonehead move during cable termination and shares lessons learned from the whole escapade. -
How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 2*
Wednesday 2 November 2005 – 07:40
Tim Higgins is back with Part 2 of his new home network adventures. This time it's all about the connections - wall plates and patch panels, that is. -
Strom: The digital home is still far from reality*
Wednesday 19 October 2005 – 06:12
Despite vendors' claims to the contrary, the promise of the digital home remains somewhere off in the misty future. David Strom weighs in with his thoughts on the "digital den". -
How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 1*
Tuesday 18 October 2005 – 08:40
Designing a system to distribute communications and electronic entertainment services around a new home can be a daunting task. But with the right approach, you don't have to be a master of the home networking universe to do it, and you might even have fun! Tim Higgins recently did just that. -
Samsung's SV1604N Workhorse Hard Drive for the Home*
Tuesday 25 May 2004 – 07:00
Many hard drives that offer 5,400 rpm will more than get the job done when it comes to backing up data for home use. We look at one such hard drive, Samsung's SV1604N with a capacity of 160 GB, and see how its performance measures up to its low price. -
Creative's E-MU 1820 Goes Home Studio Pro*
Friday 11 June 2004 – 07:00
Creative has added music production to its range of sound card offerings. Using know-how gained from its acquisition of E-MU, Creative's E-MU 1820 is designed to deliver professional-quality reproduction. THG gauges whether or not the card lives up to its pretensions. -
MythTV Unifies Personal Video Recording And Home Theatre Technology*
Friday 8 September 2006 – 01:23
The grand unification of personal digital video recorder technology converges. In fact, we think you would do well to treat the MythTV suite of software applications as a harness for exercising greater control over those appliances that govern our daily activities outside the workplace.
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Overclocking Marathon Day 2 - A Home Brew*
Thursday 19 July 2007 – 04:52 in Graphics
Editor’s Note: Yesterday we overclocked Dell’s factory-overclocked XPS H2C. As we expected and as Dell predicted, gains were minimal, but we had to try. Today we overclock the high-end model from our May System Builder Marathon. Tomorrow we tackle a chea
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Consumer Electronics Show 2007*
Saturday 6 January 2007 – 01:32
Dell has updated its XPS enthusiast PC line with a an overclocked quad-core machine and an elaborate cooling system.
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Homegrown Networks*
Friday 17 March 2006 – 02:17
Readers share their stories about building their own home networks. We look at three systems, one of which takes an especially unique approach to component integration.
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