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August 2004 Update
The August Emagazine Issue is online. Read the complete issue at
www.hometoys.com/htinews.htm
Features - Setting Up and Automating your Home Theater + a variety of Home
Technology Topics:
Thoughts on Getting the Best Bass in Your Listening Room - by Mark Stone
Using a Low Cost PC to create a Web Enabled Monitoring System - By Gary
Drake
How much amplifier power do I need? - By Kathy Gornik
Matthews Light Paper - Part Two - Technical and aesthetic issues relating to
the application of Matthews Designer Lighting in home theater environments.
Routers Versus Switches - by John Schubert
Single-Chip ZigBee Transceiver - by Svein Anders Tunheim and Morten Braathen
Lighting Controls Simplified - By Gary Axe & Avi Rosenthal
Understanding Double Layer DVD+R Recording
Programmable Logic Controllers - Functions - By Eugene Kowch
Entertainment Equipment Racks - By Michael N. Marcus
Hello, My Name is Paul and I'm Addicted to Tweaking my System - by Paul
DiComo
Installing Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras - Technical White Paper from Professional
Security Group Inc.
Protecting your CCTV equipment from Lightning and other Power Related
Problems
DVDeep Throat - Entertainment Servers, Big DVD and more on Rot!
Are PLC Gremlins Causing Problems? - Here's how to send them packing. -
SmartHome Manufacturing Tech Tip
Audio server pioneers Imerge exhibit at Cedia expo UK - a personal view! -
by Charlie Mertz
Mark Cuban and Bryan Burns to Keynote HDTV Forum 2004 - August 24-26 in Los
Angeles
Interviews:
Colin Tinto - Home Media Networks
Eric Sagmeister and Shane Walls-Harris - Home Automation in New Zealand
Read the complete issue at
www.hometoys.com/htinews.htm
Hot Product Listings:
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News Headlines:
NEXT GENERATION BPL PATENTS PROMISE TO DELIVER POWERLINE (PLC) BROADBAND TO
COMMUTERS WORLDWIDE
IP Everywhere(tm) have patent applied technology whereby broadband internet
will be available on moving vehicles. This technology promises to change the
face of advertising on vehicles and how commuters travel to and from work
POLK AUDIO INTRODUCES NEW RM SERIES HOME THEATER SATELLITE/SUBWOOFER SPEAKER
SYSTEMS
Polk Audio introduced an entirely new line of RM Series six-piece, five
channel home theater speaker systems. The new RM systems are slim, shallow
and styled to complement today`s slim-line video products such as Plasma,
LCD and DLP displays.
GSM MODULE FOR COMFORT INTELLIGENT HOME SYSTEM
The GSM Module for the Comfort Intelligent Home System provides a cellular
phone interface to send and receive SMS text messages for alarm and control.
HOMETOYS.COM HOME TECHNOLOGY EMAGAZINE ATTRACTS RECORD READERSHIP IN JUNE
2004
Thanks in large part to continued partnerships, expanding content and an
increased push towards the Home Entertainment market Hometoys.com readership
was up almost 20% in June 2004
WIRETRACKS SELECTED AS ONE OF THE TOP 100 BUILDING PRODUCTS OF 2003 BY
BUILDING PRODUCTS MAGAZINE
WireTracks selected as one of the Top 100 building.products by Building
Products magazine.
D-TOOLS HELPS ADVENT TO BE ENGERYWISE
D-Tools is proud to announce that one of its software users, ADVEnt, LLC,
will appear on a new PBS television series addressing the costs associated
with poor home construction. ADVEnt used D-Tools software to complete the
project.
CABLE WILL MATCH SATELLITE IN DVR DEPLOYMENT BY 2006
Despite a three-year head start, satellite TV providers will lose their DVR
edge over cable companies by 2006, according to `Internet-Based Video
Services,` a new white paper from research firm Parks Associates.
SHERBOURN`S MIGHTY 7 CHANNEL AMP!
From the designer of the world`s first 7 mono block & 7 torroidal tranformer
amp comes a superb little brother!
MENLO LOGIC UNVEILS VIRTUAL PASSAGE SSL VPN CLIENT AND NEW HTTP PROXY
Menlo Logic`s AccessPoint 1.1 release extends SSL VPN technology to home
offices and small offices by making secure remote access affordable and easy
to set up.
D&H DISTRIBUTING'S DIGITAL CONVERGENCE EXPO ATTRACTS MORE THAN 800 ATTENDEES
Close to triple attendance in as many years shows an escalating interest in
convergence coming from both IT and CE resellers. D&H`s Expo attendees
raised issues and explored new technologies relative to the new digital
marketplace.
CORACCESS AND APRILAIRE FORM PARTNERSHIP
CorAccess and Aprilaire, leaders in their respective markets for an alliance
to provide touch-based whole home climate control.
POWERFUL AUTOMATION AND RELIABLE SECURITY - THE NEW M1 FROM ELK PRODUCTS
This new system from Elk Products combines the best of security and
automation panels in one neat package!
COMPEX WPE54G BREAKS PLATFORM BOUNDARIES AS UNIVERSAL WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY
SOLUTION
Compex 802.11g Internet gateway, WPE54G, functions seamlessly with both Mac
and PC stations while in one of its many capable functions, Wireless
Ethernet Adapter mode
THIEL INTRODUCES NEW SMARTSUB FAMILY OF SUBWOOFER PRODUCTS
This family of ultra-high performance SmartSub (R) bass systems redefine the
category to offer the most seamless and realistic low frequency reproduction
possible.
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Sept 16-17 Connected Home Forum London, UK
Sep 24-26 HiFi Show & AVExpo 2004 London, UK
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