If you love movies, TV, and video games, then you’ve probably thought seriously about investing in a high-definition television set, otherwise known as HDTV. But before you run to your nearest electronic goods store, you should know what you’re investing your hard-earned money in, which TV set is good for you, and other things that will optimize your viewing pleasure. 
HDTV for Dummies shows you everything you need to know about buying the right equipment, setting it up, and enjoying all the things you love about TV. It’ll save you tons of confusion over this exciting new technology and tell you everything you need to know about terms, concepts, and the difference between HD and digital. This handy guide gives you the tools you need to: <ul>
<li> Get connected with video and audio cables </li> <li> Hook up your DVD player, VCR, PC, camcorder, and other fun stuff </li> <li> Mount your HDTV </li> <li> Receive HDTV programming </li> <li> Understand the difference between HD DVD and Blu-ray disc players </li> <li> Record with DVRs and VCRs </li> <li> Install game consoles like PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii </li> <li> Enhance your HDTV with audio upgrades </li> </ul>
The guide also shows you how to shop smart and lists the best places to buy your HDTV and popular accessories to pump up your system. With up-to-date knowledge on the latest technology in the market today, HDTV for Dummies gives you a clear picture of what HDTV can do for your viewing experience!

HDTV For Dummies

Engineering & Transportation

Briere, Danny

Hurley, Pat

Engineering

For Dummies

Do you long to listen to your favorite CD from anywhere in your house? To set up a wireless network so you can access the Internet in any room? To install an iron-clad security system? To fire up the coffee pot while you’re still asleep and wake up with automated lighting? Smart home technology can help you do just that! 
Smart Homes For Dummies, Third Edition, shows you how easy it can be to create and live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home―without breaking your bank account. With this user-friendly guide, you’ll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control that will help you make life more enjoyable and comfortable for your entire family. We help you plan for things such as flat-screen TVs, intercom systems, whole-home audio systems, gaming consoles, and satellite systems. We talk about your wiring (and wireless) options and introduce you to the latest technologies, such as VoIP and Bluetooth. You’ll see how to: <ul>
<li>Build your home network on a budget</li> <li>Turn your home into an entertainment center</li> <li>Access the Internet from any room</li> <li>Get VoIP on your phone network</li> <li>Boost in-home wireless and cell phone signals</li> <li>Connect your computer to your TV</li> <li>Secure your home and property</li> <li>Increase your home’s resale value</li> <li>Avoid common networking pitfalls</li> <li>And much, much more</li> </ul>
Complete with a resource list for more information and neat toys of the future, Smart Homes For Dummies is your plain-English, twenty-first century guide to a fully wired home!

Smart Homes for Dummies 3rd Edition

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Overwhelmed with big screen TV and home theater audio options? What do you need to build the perfect home theater experience? Home Theater For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to plan a home theater system and choose components that fit your budget and your room. 
Beginning with the most basic information, this guide helps you choose what you need and put it all together. It explains DLP, 3LCD, HDMI, DTV, and HDTV so you can talk intelligently with salespeople at the electronics store. You’ll find out about Blu-ray, explore HD and satellite radio options, and see how to incorporate a Wii, Xbox, or Playstation 3 into your set-up. Learn to: <ul>
<li>Choose among plasma, LCD, and projection TVs</li> <li>Know the difference between digital TV and HDTV</li> <li>Assess and choose an LCD TV, a new 3D TV, or an HD radio</li> <li>Set up your audio system and TV for maximum performance</li> <li>Use a Media Center or Home Theater PC</li> <li>Fine-tune your system and add cool touches such as accessing home theater content from your cell phone</li> <li>Explore HD and satellite radio options, CD players, DVD-Audio disks, and options for old cassettes and vinyl</li> <li>Set up your system with the proper cables for each component, or learn what it takes to go wireless</li> <li>Calibrate your video with a calibration disk, an optical comparator, or a DVD containing THX Optimizer</li> </ul>
Get the perfect home theater experience by following the expert tips and techniques presented in Home Theater For Dummies, 3rd Edition. You’ll be watching movies and listening to audio in no time!

Home Theater For Dummies

Humor & Entertainment

A low-tech way to understand a high-tech system! Create the home entertainment center that fits your home and your tastes Gadget fans, a home theater setup is the stuff your dreams are made of. This book keeps the dream from becoming a nightmare! Here's how to select, set up, and optimize a system, translate the salesperson's geek-speak, connect all the parts throughout your home, and even do cool stuff like accessing your system from your laptop computer. Discover how to * Choose the right space for your system * Select and connect source devices * Understand speakers, TV types, and remotes * Create a whole-home network * Access your system away from home

HURLEY

Welcome to the new millennium and the next step in home technology. Replace your telephone with a computer. Power up your burglar alarm from a PC that's miles away. Turn lights on and off with a click of your mouse, or plan and build your meals without stepping into the kitchen (well, almostÖthere's still dishes to do). 
In short, discover how to network your entire home and remote control everything with the smart home" technology that's available today. Smart Homes For Dummies guides you step-by-step through everything you need to know about automating your home, from advanced security to home theater entertainment centers. Find out what it takes to turn your home into a state-of-the-art entertainment and communications center, and discover the benefits of home networking, from Internet access in every room to monitoring the baby from your living room TV. Decide what to buy -- and what to avoid -- in the absence of universal standards for "smart homes," and get the lowdown on competing home systems from X-10 and IBM Home Director to CEBUS and Intellon. Explore a wonderful wide world of wireless products, and secure and protect your investment with an integrated security system. Build the home of the future today with the smart advice you find in Smart Homes For Dummies.

Smart Homes For Dummies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

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 <ul>
<li>Explanations in plain English</li> <li>"Get in, get out" information</li> <li>Icons and other navigational aids</li> <li>Tear-out cheat sheet</li> <li>Top ten lists</li> <li>A dash of humor and fun</li> </ul>

Most people have had some contact with a network through their work environment – computer local area networks (LANs) in the office, control networks in factories, telephone networks in many mid-sized or larger businesses. The Internet itself is one big network. 
Although some folks may think of a network as simply something that helps them do their work, the network concept has begun to move from the workplace to the home address. Smart home builders and remodelers (and forward-looking owners of otherwise perfect existing homes) are starting to think in terms of wiring (or wirelessing) their homes both to make use of a network today and to prepare for future structural requirements. Smart Homes For Dummies, 2nd Edition, lays out a richly landscaped spread of possibilities in networking your home devices – for convenience, cost control, time-savings, safety, and increased property values. This forward-thinking, fun guide spells out how to <ul>
<li>Imagine all the cool stuff that home networks can do</li> <li>Make your home an entertainment center</li> <li>Plan a phone system</li> <li>Design a home-based LAN</li> <li>Wire a security system</li> <li>Install and configure all the gizmos</li> </ul>
Smart homes never want for innovation; people are constantly inventing things. Stuff that seems niche-oriented and expensive today may be high-volume consumer products tomorrow. Smart Homes For Dummies, 2nd Edition, invites you to take advantage of the latest techno developments as you rev up for the upcoming gee-whiz things that'll make your home a twenty-first century castle. You'll meet the most recent information and insight on <ul>
<li>Figuring how much you're willing to spend</li> <li>Connecting your kitchen appliances and more</li> <li>Feeding audio and video from your Media Center</li> <li>Accessing the Internet all over your house</li> <li>Integrating a satellite system to create a video network</li> <li>Untangling cables and components</li> <li>Seeing what's just over the horizon for telephone service</li> </ul>
A home network opens the world to your entire household, and Smart Homes For Dummies, 2nd Edition, provides a plan for your home, sweet home to enjoy all that awaits in an infinite space.

Pick the right equipment, secure your network, and share files Share your Internet connection, access hot spots, and add on cool wireless peripherals Thinking of going wireless? It's not as scary as it sounds! This fast and fun guidebook helps you decide what you need, install it, and get the most from all its cool options. Your PCs can share printers while you groove to your favorite MP3s and the family shares quality video game time - all from anywhere! The Dummies Way <ul>
<li>Explanations in plain English</li> <li>"Get in, get out" information</li> <li>Icons and other navigational aids</li> <li>Tear-out cheat sheet</li> <li>Top ten lists</li> <li>A dash of humor and fun</li> </ul>

Wireless Home Networking For Dummies

Bruce III, Walter

Certification

<ul>
<li>The fun and easy way to get up and running quickly with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, the new operating system version specially outfitted for TV, DVD, video, music, and digital photo applications 
</li> <li>Media Center PCs are the first PCs to feature an easy-to-use interface and all preconfigured hardware and preloaded software needed to create a complete integrated home entertainment system 
</li> <li>Explains how to integrate a home computer network with a home theater system, control connected TVs with the Remote Control Interface, record TV programs using a TiVo-like recorder, acquire and play back music files, organize digital videos and photos, play DVD movies, and much more 
</li> <li>Written by the authors of Home Theater For Dummies (0-7645-1801-1)and Wireless Home Networking For Dummies (0-7645-3910-8), who worked closely with Media Center Edition product management at Microsoft to complete the book.</li> </ul>

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies

Operating Systems

Get HDTV and get connected without getting confused! 
Buy wisely, surround yourself with sound, watch your movies in HD, and more. If HDTV looks appealing but the mountain of mumbo-jumbo has you peeling out the door, take heart! Finally, here's a plain-English explanation of what HDTV is and how to choose one, hook it up, locate and access programming sources, and even how to connect your movie machines and Xbox for even more HD fun. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Plan your HDTV system and choose the right equipment.</li> <li>Connect to programming sources.</li> <li>Add A/V entertainment gear and accessories.</li> <li>Access HDTV over your home network.</li> </ul>

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Smart Homes for Dummies 3rd Edition

Home Theater For Dummies

Home Theater For Dummies

Smart Homes For Dummies

Home Theater For Dummies

Smart Homes For Dummies

Wireless Home Networking For Dummies

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies

HDTV For Dummies