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Title: Home Theater for Dummies by Danny Briere, Pat Hurley ISBN: 0-7645-1801-1 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the one
Comment: This is the book we refer to our customers who want to know what audio is all about; covers the basic nicely. If you're wanting a primer, this is the one to get. Also, we recommend Stereophile magazine.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for novices
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good primer for newbies, but not great
Comment: 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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Title: Smart Homes for Dummies, Second Edition by Danny Briere, Pat Hurley ISBN: 0764525395 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 23 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Home Theater For Everyone: A Practical Guide to Today's Home Entertainment Systems by Robert Harley, Tomlinson Holman ISBN: 0964084988 Publisher: Acapella Pub Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Audio/Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide by Stephen H. Lampen ISBN: 0071386211 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems by Michael Miller ISBN: 0028639391 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Practical Home Theater: A Guide to Video and Audio Systems by Mark Fleischmann ISBN: 0759664234 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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