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Harry Pearce leads General Motors’ take-down of “Dateline NBC”

February 8, 2021May 1, 2020 by Earl Jones

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

Categories Media Tags Dateline NBC, GM Truck Fire, Harry Pearce

Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 3

July 13, 2019May 31, 2016 by Earl Jones
TiVo Mini

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

Categories Media, Other Things, Technology Tags MoCA, Roamio, Roku, TiVo, TiVo Mini

Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 2

July 13, 2019May 22, 2016 by Earl Jones

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

Categories Media, Other Things, Technology Tags Home Theater, Sound Tower, Speakers

Our Home Theater on a Shoestring Budget, Part 1

January 25, 2020May 18, 2016 by Earl Jones

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

Categories Media, Other Things, Technology Tags Technology

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