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Buyer's Guide: Home Theater Systems
Some good information on how to choose home theater components. An interactive guide will
narrow your choices and make buying recommendations according to features, price, brand,
etc. Try different answers to the guide's questions and the results can be humorously
unpredictable.
DVD.com's
DVD 101
The basics of DVD: how it works, its short history, how to hook up your DVD player, etc.
Eschews technical jargon for sensible, easy to understand explanations.
DVD Demystified
More technical information about DVDs than most people will ever want to know, but very
useful nevertheless.
Earl's Famous DVD
Technology Exposition Web Page
No-nonsense and pithy, and written with a virtual Lone Star State twang -- Earl is a Texas
TV repair guy, after all.
General Home
Theater Info/Advice
Terrific source of all sorts of information on home theater, DVDs and laserdiscs,
apparently written and maintained by a single home theater fanatic. A useful glossary of
home theater terms is complemented by amusing stuff like Bassiest Movie Scenes (you
can even submit your own choices).
Home Theater Forum
Discuss, debate and argue with other aficionados. The site includes a glossary as well as
links to other relevant sites.
Intro to Widescreen
An excellent analysis with lots of pictures showing how different aspect ratios can
enhance or compromise a film's image.
The Letterbox/Widescreen and
Open DVD Advocacy Page
Arranged in a Q&A format, the page addresses most common questions on widescreen vs.
pan-&-scan. Quite informative and to-the-point.
MGM's Letterbox vs.
Pan-&-Scan Page
A brilliant, practical exposition of what the terms really mean. Several screenshots from
MGM movies illustrate how letterboxed and pan-&-scan actually look in the movie
theaters and on your TV.
DVD & Home Theater Usenet Groups
alt.video.dvd
alt.video.dvd.software
alt.video.dvd.tech
rec.video.dvd.advocacy
rec.video.dvd.marketplace
rec.video.dvd.misc
rec.video.dvd.players
rec.video.dvd.tech
rec.video.dvd.titles
alt.home-theater.marketplace
alt.home-theater.misc
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