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How to Connect an HDTV to Your Sound System or Home Theater
Connecting your HDTV television, whether it's plasma or LCD, to your home theater or other sound system is easy with this DIY video. The step-by-step instructions show you which cables to connect to what [more…]
How to Mount a Flat-Screen TV to the Wall
This video guides you through mounting your television to a wall, and demonstrates how to insert a wall mount that securely holds your LCD or plasma HDTV - no matter how big your screen. [more…]
How to Calibrate Your HDTV
Calibrating your HDTV gives you the best picture and sound on both LCD or plasma televisions. There's no need for a professional calibration; you can do it yourself by following the instructions in this [more…]Considering Surround-Sound for Your HDTV System
The profusion of surround-sound standards is a confusing area in the audio arena. Surround sound is multichannel audio designed to produce spatial audio cues [more…]
How to Position Home Theater Surround-Sound Speakers
Hooking up surround-sound speakers is step one to setting up a home theater. Knowing where to position your surround-sound speakers — subwoofers and tweeters, wireless or not — makes a huge difference [more…]Hooking Up Your Stereo to Your PC or Laptop
If you're turning a computer into a music machine, why not just do the obvious: Hook it up to the stereo? If you want to make audiotapes of your MP3s (or even streaming audio concerts) for your car's tape [more…]
Connecting your PC to Your HDTV
You can see video or pictures from your PC on your HDTV, or use your HDTV to search the Internet, by hooking up the correct cables to ports from computer to television. This video tutorial provides steps [more…]Buying a DTV Digital-to-Analog Converter Box
If you have an older TV — one manufactured before March 1, 2007 — in order to pick up over-the-air digital television (DTV) signals, you'll need to purchase and install a digital-to-analog converter box [more…]
How to Connect an Antenna or Cable to Your HDTV
You'll need to connect an antenna or cable to your HDTV before you can watch it. Both LCD or plasma HDTVs make hooking up cable or an antenna simple. This tutorial's instructions help. [more…]Why Are We Switching to Digital Television Signals?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided that, by June 12, 2009, all full-power TV stations must cease broadcasting on their current analog channels and switch completely over to digital [more…]
How to Connect a Game Console to an HDTV
Connecting your console to your HDTV is something any gamer can do. Whatever your console — Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Wii — this video shows how to hook up so you can play on your HDTV [more…]HDMI Digital Video Home Theater Connections
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the latest and greatest digital audio/video cable connection and can give you great HDTV resolution. Besides HDTVs, [more…]
Connecting Your iPod to a Home Stereo
Home stereo systems come in many shapes and sizes, from an audiophile's monster component racks to a kid's itty-bitty boom box. We're not talking about alarm-clock radios, but stereos with speakers that [more…]
Recording TV Shows with Windows XP Media Center PC
Controlling Live TV is a great thing. When the phone rings (darn those telemarketers) or the dog has to go out, pausing your favorite program seems like a life saver. But sometimes you want to record entire [more…]
Tuning In to Local HDTV Broadcasts
If the thought of paying for cable or satellite TV service hurts your head, consider free over-the-air (OTA) HDTV. Nearly every household in America can tune into at least one HDTV station [more…]
Digital TV Basics
DTV stands for digital television, and by June 12, 2009, it will be the only television signal on the airwaves. Although the switch to all-digital TV marks an important shift in the way television is created [more…]
Adding DVR Functionality to Your Mac mini
The basic function of DVRs is to record TV digitally on your Mac mini and to schedule taping for later viewing without commercials and without the hassles of tapes. You can also burn video to DVDs for [more…]
Doing It Yourself versus Hiring the Home Theater Pros
You can handle a lot of home theater setup all by yourself. However, if you want it done right, you may want to bring in some experts to complement your work. If you don't have the right electrical outlets [more…]
Entering the World of HDTV
Since the transition to color TV in the 1950s and '60s, nothing has had as much impact on the TV world as HDTV (high-definition TV) and digital TV. That's right, TV is going digital, following in the footsteps [more…]
Placing Surround Speakers
No matter what the setup of your speakers for surround sound — whether you have two, three, four, or more side and back speakers — your surround speakers play a fundamentally different role than your front [more…]
Connecting Your TiVo and Selecting Channels
A TiVo lifestyle begins with something unavoidably awful: connecting TiVo to your TV, weaving strands of cables into just the right configuration. Thankfully, TiVo's installation happens only once. And [more…]
Understanding Active and Passive Speakers
All speakers, regardless of the number of drivers, pole type, enclosure type, or other characteristics, fall into one of two categories: active or passive. How they're classified depends on their relationship [more…]
Installing a New CD or DVD Burner
A CD burner is the common slang for a CD-RW drive, which enables you to record and rerecord data (including audio) onto your own CDs. With these devices, you can do the following: [more…]
Surrounding Yourself with Sound in Your Home Theater
Unless you plan on installing a 360-degree Cinema-in-the-Round screen in your home, just like you'd see at Disney World, video plays a rather confined [more…]
Transitioning to Over-the-Air Digital Television Signals
According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the deadline for switching over to digital television broadcasts is June 12, 2009. Over 600 stations have already made the switch, so there's no [more…]
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