Books
Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis
Price: $17.50 USD
In the 21st century, more and more people "go out" to the movies at home. This lifestyle change has led to the biggest innovation in residential design today: the home theater, be it a custom-installed system or an elaborate private screening room. At the high end, Theo Kalomirakis reigns supreme as the leading designer of private theaters in the home.
Kalomirakis tailors each of his designs to fit the needs of a specific client, using styles that range from ultra-traditional to cutting-edge. His theaters even have their own marquee names: The Moonlight, The First Run, The Miami Beach. Great Escapes showcases nine of these incredible spaces through superb color photographs and descriptions of the technology that make this revolution in entertainment and design possible. Although Kalomirakis's extravagant creations are for wealthy clients, they will also serve as inspiration for home owners who want to integrate cinema quality with home comfort on a more modest budget.
Home Theaters and Electronic Houses
Price: $29.55 USD
Pull up a seat for a colorful tour of soundproofed, silverscreened retreats fit for movie stars, Starship commanders, and sultans. Take an ultraprivileged tour through some of today's finest hightech homes, where roombyroom sensors and touchpad controls put lighting, sound, temperature, and security at your command. Watch screens descend or ascend from unexpected hiding places, projectors appear, and windows disappear in JamesBondlike mechanical transitions. And enjoy flatscreen and plasma entertainments in the most unexpected places: shower stalls, pool rooms, home sports bars, and more. This is the only book that offers an inside look at the ultimate techie fantasies, culminating in today's hottest home trend more than 80 dedicated home theaters. Many of these fantasy rooms were drawn straight out of scifi, classic films, and even Westerns, embodying the fantasy of Hollywood. Others are todiefor interiors created by designers in today's hottest styles. Visit basement hideaways that deliver the ultimate theater experience, while doubling as hurricane shelters. There are also bedrooms, playrooms, garages, and even attics that have been remodeled into stateoftheart theaters and media rooms. Included are equipment lists for many of the projects, and discussions about the art of wiring, and advice on choosing a professional to help you transform your home. This is a lipsmacking look at a luxury that is becoming an increasingly popular domestic investment. Packed with dazzling, mindblowing pictures of home theater systems and media/rec rooms, the book is sure to inspire and excite movie enthusiasts, architects, and designers looking for insight to the hitech world of electronic homes.
Home Theater Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Hacks)
Price: $8.14 USD
It's simply undeniable: More and more people prefer watching their favorite movies, television shows, and videos from the comfort of their own sofas and couches. What's also undeniable is the inexperience of most people who choose to install or upgrade their home theaters.
Until now, the knowledge, technique, and experiences of those who've encountered similar conditions to yours could only be accessed through laborious web searches, stacks of magazines, and water cooler conversations. Home Theater Hacks from O'Reilly is the perfect remedy for this group.
A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Home Theater Hacks covers home theater installation from start to finish, purchase to experience. Just imagine: no frustrating trial-and-error process and better yet, no expensive appointments with installation experts. Home Theater Hacks prevents both by imparting down-and-dirty technique not found anywhere else.
The book begins with a quick glossary of terms so you can speak the lingo when you go shopping, and then dives right into hush-hush, insider tricks. It's all covered where to find the right audio and video components, how to deal with speakers and wiring, understanding cable connectivity, mastering remote controls, how to fully grasp TiVo, and so much more. And to top it off, each of these insider tips is presented in a concise yet delightfully entertaining style. Bringing the Jurassic Park dinosaurs into your living room has never been so easy!
Secrets of Home Theater (Secrets of…)
Price: $10.99 USD
With HD TV, Surround Sound, digital satellite, and more, the options for home theater systems are ever expanding, and what used to be a simple matter of plugging in a TV and connecting a few cables has become a far more complex undertaking. Here to untangle the wires and make sense of the choices confronting you today as you set up your home theater is a guide from the folks who do it best: TechTV! In true TechTV fashion, author Mike Wood distills the process into the need-to-know essentials that will have you viewing flicks before the day is out. By focusing on three primary steps–determining sources (DVD players, satellite receivers, VCRs, and music servers), figuring out how to control those sources (receiver, preamp, and so on), and then choosing how and where to display them–Mike delivers the information in easily digestible chunks that you an choose to build on (or not!). Buying tips, cool factoids, and sound setup advice round out the offering!
How Home Theater and HDTV Work (How It Works)
Price: $13.49 USD
Home theater and HDTV are hot, but most consumers know little or nothing about these technologies. You no longer have to rely on sales people to direct you to underpowered and overpriced equipment that doesn't meet your needs and is quickly outdated. Take matters into your own hands with How HDTV and Home Theater Works. Armed with this book, you will not only understand what you want, but why you want it and how to hook it all up. This book covers topics and most likely interest and confuse you, including:
- Broadcast vs. cable vs. satellite television
- Standard defintion vs. high definition TV
- Surround sound
With all of this great information, presented to you in a highly-visual, four-color format, How HDTV and Home Theater Work is the only home theater book that you'll need to not only show you how to hook up your system, but how to maximize its performance.
Price: $24.95 USD
HDTV, a new way of broadcasting and receiving television signals, is quickly becoming the standard in the industry. This book not only compares the features and prices of the leading HDTV brands, but serves as an instruction manual for setting up the modern home theater.
Build Your Home Theater In a Weekend
Price: $6.90 USD
Want a front-row seat at your own movie theater? If you are interested in re-creating the movie experience at home, then look no further! Filled with information on the hottest trends in consumer electronics, this book will help you choose video, system-integration, and acoustics equipment. It also offers basic installation information and news on the hottest electronics, including HDTV and DVD. This do-it-yourself guide will help you find out how easy it is to build a home theater in just one weekend.
Price: $11.99 USD
Trying to set up your own home theater?
Frustrated? Intimidated? Afraid you'll make big mistakes?
Here's the book for you. Clear, brief, simple explanations of everything you need to know, but none of the complicated stuff that fascinates the techies but just irritates, bores, and scares-off everybody else.
What's in the book…
- Video (CRT, projection, plasma TVs)
- Audio (speakers, receivers, etc.)
- Disc players (CD, DVD, SACD, DVD-Audio)
- Broadcast TV (over-the-air, cable, and satellite—including HDTV)
- Video and audio recorders
- Shopping
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Build the Ultimate Home Theater PC
Price: $7.53 USD
The best of both worlds—now THIS is entertainment
You love tinkering with technology. The digital lifestyle is your lifestyle. So building your own Home Theater PC just might be as entertaining as using it. In these pages, a couple of fellow tinkerers explain the components and subsystems of a Home Theater PC and help you choose and pur- chase parts, assemble and test the PC, install Windows® Media Center Edition, and get the whole thing up and running. Then, invite your friends over and watch 'em turn green.
All you need to know
Clear, step-by-step instructions, complete with parts lists, pictures, and diagrams
- What makes it an HTPC
- Choosing the CPU and memory
- Graphics, video, and HTPC audio
- Monitors and displays
- Networking your HTPC
- Remotes—and how many you can lose
- Installing MCE 2005
- Your choice—P4, Pentium M, or Athlon 64
- Maximizing your multimedia experience
Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System
Price: $3.60 USD
Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System is meant for those home theater enthusiasts with some working knowledge of personal computers (PCs) who want to create the ultimate home theater experience. A Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC) is basically an ordinary PC used in conjunction with a high-definition-capable television, monitor, or video projector, and a sound system. The book is laid out chronologically and follows the authors' activities as they assemble two HTPC systems, starting with a detailed background of video and audio technologies to help readers understand what the HTPC can do.
An HTPC can do much more than play DVD movies on a HDTV-ready television. The convergence of computers and digital entertainment formats means that the PC platform is well suited to reproducing audio in many formats, including converting older analog recordings to digital. It is also great for capturing and editing home movies, implementing a personal video recorder, creating slide-show presentations with digital pictures, videoconferencing, and much more. Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System will show readers how to set up an HTPC for the most complete home theater experience available.
Home Theater For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Price: $10.86 USD
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
Introductory Guide to High-Performance Audio Systems: Stereo - Surround Sound - Home Theater
Price: $12.39 USD
How to choose, set up, and enjoy the latest high-technology audio systems are all given expert insight in this indispensable guide for stereo shoppers. Consumers today often use home-audio systems for both stereo music and surround-sound music, they buy multichannel systems instead of two-channel stereo systems, they may have HDTV and flat-panel televisions, and they have largely moved to in-wall and on-wall loudspeakers rather than floortanding units. Questions relating to all of these changes are covered in a novice-friendly way, as well as Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio formats, and all of the latest surround-sound formats for home theater. The emphasis is not only on solving shopping dilemmas, but also on getting great sound from an audio system.
Theo Kalomirakis' Private Theaters
Lowest used price: $135.87 USD
Kalomirakis' stunningly sumptuous work evokes the gilt-encrusted excesses of old-time movie palaces, re-creating them for the delectation of wealthy clients like Eddie Murphy…. [F]or anybody who daydreams of making his basement a Bijou, this is just the ticket.
Home Theater Master Guide: From Start to Finish
Price: $29.95 USD
My specialties as a Custom Systems Integrator have always been in the designs of Hi-End Home Stereo Systems, Home Theaters and Acoustically Shaped Listening Rooms. Today, I incorporate my extensive background experiences into the material I write in each of my Step-By-Step books.
Over the years several of my Home Theater and Acoustically Shaped Room Designs have been published in Audio/Video Interiors Magazine including a commissioned request by this same magazine to write a three part series on the topic of Room Acoustics.
In recent years I realized that there was a need for an instructional Step-By-Step informational setup guide for those do-it-yourselfers who want to build or improve their Home Theater Systems. As a result I now have a complete series of Step-By-Step book guides all of which are incorporated in this Master Guide.
Home Theater Design: Planning and Decorating Media-Savvy Interiors
Price: $13.41 USD
Technical tips for how to achieve a "movie theater" experience in your own home.Home Theater Design is the comprehensive guide to planning all types of entertainment spaces in the home. Author Krissy Rushing reveals how to choose and place acoustic and audio/visual systems to the best advantage; how to plan a home theater or music room; and how to display, store, and care for all types of media formats.
This book looks at the aesthetics, too with a "whole interior" approach to home entertaining. The book offers information on a variety of design considerations - furnishings, comfort, setting up entertainment spaces, hosting get-togethers, accommodating guests - while factoring in style, functionality, new technology, acoustic planning, soundproofing, lighting, and environmental and personal health considerations.
Home Theater For Everyone: A Practical Guide to Today's Home Entertainment Systems
Price: $9.90 USD
With this consumer's guide, buyers of home theater systems will be taken through the technology and components of home entertainment and learn how they suit their individual needs. Consumers will discover the best components, how to be a savvy shopper, how to avoid buying the wrong technology, and how to set up and fine-tune a system. In addition, all the technologies behind home theater are explained. These technologies include DVD players, audio/video receivers, multichannel speaker systems, high-definition television (HDTV), and digital satellite systems.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems
Price: $9.95 USD
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems will help you understand the ins and outs of everything from analyzing your current system to installing your new components. Coverage includes DVD players, 25"+ televisions, laserdisc players, projection TVs, Hi-Fi stereo VCRs, surround sound processors, amps, receivers, subwoofers and home-theater-in-a-box packages. This valuable guide also discusses connections, remote control, installation and lighting. Hook-up diagrams and feature descriptions are also included!
Build Your Own Home Theater (Second Edition)
Price: $19.58 USD
Written to provide information on all price ranges of equipment to everyone from the beginner to the experienced home theater owner, Build Your Own Home Theater has been completely updated for today's audience. This new edition contains valuable consumer information on the latest digital home theater components and technology, including digital surround sound receivers, DVD players, digital television & HDTV, digital satellites (DBS), digital camcorders, and digital hard-drive video recorders. It also features easy-to-understand explanations of surround sound technology and setups including Dolby Digital, THX Surround EXTM, and DTS-ESTM.
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