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Best of home cinema

Digital Living Want to find out more about home cinema? Let CNET.co.uk's TV expert Ian Morris walk you through the options with our special report.

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22 October 2007, 8:11

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living Home cinema sounds like a great idea when you're standing in Tottenham Court Road, looking at shining silver speaker stacks and admiring The Fifth Element on a 60-inch plasma. But it's amazing how quickly you get used to a certain level of home...

2 March 2006, 16:29

Become a camcorder pro

Digital Living Stanley Kubrick immortalised cinema's use of the Steadicam in The Shining (1980). Spielberg snuck into Universal Studios in 1969 and set in motion one of the greatest careers in cinema history. His tracking shots of little Danny Torrance on his...

29 June 2006, 16:02

How to build your own home theatre

Digital Living Many home-cinema systems use bookshelf speakers for left and right main channels. K is best for a home-cinema application. Watching a large TV in a dark room can cause a lot of eyestrain. By placing a simple light behind your TV, you create the...

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27 June 2005, 11:18

Blu-ray and HD DVD: The facts

Digital Living As long as the right hardware is hooked up to your disc player, you can experience lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio -- new digital audio formats encoded so efficiently that they lose none of the original recording's quality when they...

1 June 2007, 16:40

Philips HTS9800W

Digital Living Donned with a futuristic design and a top-class specification, Philips' HTS9800W is a feisty contender for the home cinema system crown -- but it's not cheap. Is it top dollar or do you want more bang for your buck?

5 January 2007, 16:29

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living Cinema, like television, comic books and reading itself, was also despised by those across the generational divide who thought it was a waste of time that encouraged fantasy, distracted people from work and led to various forms of moral and sexual...

10 July 2006, 11:16

What is Dolby TrueHD?

Digital Living In a cinema, the sound comes from all around the room and produces a deeply involving experience. I've heard a lot about Dolby TrueHD recently. What is it, and is it worth a costly upgrade to my AV system to get the best out of it?

11 July 2007, 14:15

A camcorder for shooting drama?

Digital Living Danny Boyle used the XL2 to film 28 Days Later and it's also been used in several other cinema releases. I am trying to find out what is the best, most moderately priced camcorder for making short dramas to pitch screenplays.

21 June 2005, 11:50

Wi-Fi is the answer to a home without wires

Digital Living It's great for things like checking cinema times," she said. Getting a wireless network at home seems ridiculous until you do it. Once you've done it, it seems ridiculous that you once had to connect your laptop to a cable to make it work, as...

4 March 2006, 7:00

Can I afford a progressive scan camcorder?

Digital Living Look at the difference between television and cinema. I'm trying to find out about the cheapest camcorders on the market with a progressive-scan mode. Can anyone help? Yes Neil, CNET can help. CNET always helps.

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12 December 2007, 9:23

Spam TV, You TV, Global TV

Digital Living For the same reason, I love projectors and surround-sound systems that give us a cinema experience at home and liberate us from the limited screening times and narrow range of content at the local The screen experience is increasingly mundane.

4 October 2005, 16:57

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Later on, there was the added bonus of digital surround sound, meaning that people could have a cinema-style experience in their own home, without the sticky floors and hooligan children throwing popcorn at them.

23 July 2007, 9:49

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living And a balanced home cinema system is one where you spend ten per cent of the hardware cost on cabling. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment.

16 May 2005, 11:40