Tuesday, June 28, 2011

About Home Theater: About.com Celebrates 15th Anniversary

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From Robert Silva, your Guide to Home Theater
Welcome to the Weekday Edition of the Home Theater Newsletter! First, I want to thank everyone who receives and reads this newsletter. This week marks 15 years of About.com providing informative and useful information to its readers, and this week's newsletter is no exception. Check out an interesting product that can fill your home with great music, plus a controversy brewing that my affect TV viewing, and find out which TV brand is on top.

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Happy Birthday, About.com!
About.com is proudly celebrating its 15th anniversary on the internet. First going live on June 27th 1996 as MiningCo.com with the tagline: "We mine the net so you don't have to", in May, 1999 the name was changed to About.com with an increased focus on original content designed to inform and provide solutions for daily needs in a wide variety of categories, all written expert guides. Since then, About.com has expanded and evolved to become a major source of information for internet users. Observing this from the home theater perspective....Read more
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Sonos - Creating a Whole Home Music Streaming System
Ordinarily, a whole house audio system requires a lot of in-wall wiring and the installation of controllers in every room where you want to access your stored music. However, Sonos has come up with a multi-room audio solution that can connect to an existing home network, that you can install yourself, enabling the streaming of music to any room of the house. For all the details, read the report from About.com contributing writer, Barb Gonzalez: What is Sonos?

NAB and CEA Battle Over Broadcast TV Future
A new battle is brewing between the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters), the main trade organization that represents TV broadcasts and the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association), the main trade organization that represents consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers. The battle between these organizations can be boiled down to this: The CEA has come out with a statement that over-the-air TV broadcasting should be curtailed, while the NAB wants over-the-air TV broadcasting to be continued at its current level of commitment...Read more
See More About:  dtv transition  over-the-air tv  broadband

Vizio Claims North America TV Supremacy
In the LCD TV retail landscape, competition is pretty cutthroat and even major players, such as Sony and Samsung have to keep on their toes, lest they be bested by an upstart. Well, for the past few years, Vizio has definitely filled that roll as one of the top, and sometimes, the top shipper of LCD TVs in the North American market. Vizio has been seesawing mostly with Samsung, who lays claim to the top LCD TV shipper spot Worldwide...Read more
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