The A/V Experience. we build 4 diy hdmi. Despite numerous gotchas and design conflicts, we manage to put together and test four different AMD and Intel CPU-based home theater PCs with HDMI capability. We're exhausted. You enjoy.. Ultimately, the biggest benefits...

• -How (And What) We Tested

The A/V Experience. system builder marathon. Today we build a low cost ($1,004) Media Center PC and cut corners to reduce its price to under $800. Tomorrow we'll do a top of the line model.. The biggest reason for using HDMI is, of course, to gain access to...

The A/V Experience. system builder marathon. Yesterday we built a low cost ($1,004) Media Center PC. Today we'll do a top of the line $3,300 model and, just for fun, up the price to $4,000 and beyond.. The biggest reason for using HDMI, of course, is to gain...

• -How And What We Tested

A/V Receivers If you follow Home Theatre audio at all, you have no doubt heard that the latest thing you just "must have" is an HDMI-enabled A/V receiver. These receivers have HDMI inputs and outputs that provide the following capabilities: Multi-channel audio...

• -HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Compatibility

of setup, I’d read that the SR5004 would be a “quick-and-easy” affair. I’d had an A/V installer put in my home theater the last time we moved, and I’d forgotten just how different A/V consumer electronics are from computing gear. It was not quick...

namely, if you want to build a fast, capable media PC, there's no compelling reason to buy HDMI gear just yet. However, you still might be inclined to do so if you think the convenience of a single cable from the PC to an A/V receiver outweighs the work involved...

complex for ACC panels, but their main advantage is the ability to maintain the flow of the plasma longer than on a traditional panel. In the first stage, a strong difference in potential of 300 V, applied as +100V and -200V between the scan and data electrodes,...