Radio and TV, movies, music, (and increasingly) news
I’ve been moving this tape with me for more than 50 years, and never knew what I had. This past July 4 weekend, a never-before-heard episode of American Top 40 aired on many radio stations. It was a 3-hour show covering the top 40 hits from the Billboard Hot 100 chart from the week ending … Read more
In November 1992, NBC News did a hatchet job on General Motors during an episode of its “Dateline NBC” program. The key element in the hour-long report was a staged crash of a car into the side of a GM pickup truck. The car hit the truck squarely and a fire erupted from the area … Read more
In Part 2, I wrote about my quest for a decent-sounding audio system that was simple to install and wouldn’t break the bank. The Samsung TW-J5500 powered tower system was my eventual choice. In this concluding article of the series, I praise my TiVo and how it is the ideal video source for my project. … Read more
In Part 1, I wrote about my plan to build a simple home theater on a budget and my process of selecting a projector and screen. This time, the topic is sound. I found out quickly that using the right terminology is very important in searching for audio equipment. In audio, the term “home theater” … Read more
Setting Expectations When we set out to create our home theater for two, we knew we wanted a cinematic experience without spending a Hollywood blockbuster budget. Purists would say that we’re not building a “real” home theater, but my goal was to keep the number of components, and thus the cost and complexity, to a … Read more