With HD TV, Surround Sound, digital satellite, and more, the options for home theater systems are ever expanding, and what used to be a simple matter of plugging in a TV and connecting a few cables has become a far more complex undertaking. Here to untangle the wires and make sense of the choices confronting you today as you set up your home theater is a guide from the folks who do it best: TechTV! In true TechTV fashion, author Mike Wood distills the process into the need-to-know essentials that will have you viewing flicks before the day is out. By focusing on three primary steps--determining sources (DVD players, satellite receivers, VCRs, and music servers), figuring out how to control those sources (receiver, preamp, and so on), and then choosing how and where to display them--Mike delivers the information in easily digestible chunks that you an choose to build on (or not!). Buying tips, cool factoids, and sound setup advice round out the offering!

Secrets of Home Theater

Engineering & Transportation

wood,mike

Engineering

Techtv

TechTV, the only cable television channel covering technology news, information, and entertainment from a consumer, industry, and market perspective 24 hours a day, brings you the flavor and charisma of their network in a book that will teach the fundamentals of Windows XP. This highly accessible book teaches how to get up-to-speed quickly and how to connect XP to the online world of web browsing, e-mail, and instant messaging. In addition, this second edition contains updated information on multimedia capabilities, wireless networks, broadband connections, and the release of MSN Messenger 8. You'll learn how to set up XP for all the members in a family, install on portable PCs, and how to have some fun with this operating system.

Techtv's Microsoft Windows Xp for Home Users

Computers & Technology

Techtv (Television Network)

Louderback, Jim

MILLER, MICHAEL

Operating Systems

When it comes to protecting your computer and its data, what you don't know can hurt you—which is precisely why TechTV personality Becky Worley has written this info-packed volume that carefully outlines the steps you can take to secure your data, your identity, and your privacy in an age of cyber-crime and near-constant virus scares. In the warm, friendly, reassuring style viewers have come to associate with Becky's "Security Alert" segments on TechTV's TechLive news show, this volume delves into all of the areas where you and your computer may be vulnerable to attack: hacking, identity theft, online purchasing, virus attacks, email and Internet scams, online dating and communities, kids and the Internet, and more. Each chapter begins with a real-life disaster story before providing useful tips on how to avoid a similar fate. Practical advice, email and Internet rules to live by, tips to protect your privacy, and more round out the package.

Techtv's Security Alert: Stories of Real Poeple Protecting Themselves from Identity Theft, Viruses, and Scams

Worley, Becky

Certification

Time doesn¿t stand still¿which means your perfect computer setup from a year ago, perhaps even six months ago, is no longer the latest and greatest. Here to help you navigate the maze of decisions involved in any major upgrade is TechTV¿s popular upgrade guide, completely updated to cover the latest upgrade-worthy hardware and software. In clear, jargon-free language, TechTV¿s Upgrading Your PC answers all your upgrade questions: When is it time to upgrade? How do you know when an upgrade is worth the price of admission? How do you protect your current applications and data? 
 In the first section of this guide, veteran author Mark Edward Soper tackles the pre-upgrade process, detailing everything you need to do (and ask) before you upgrade. Each of the remaining chapters focuses on a different device or technology¿from hard disks to Surround Sound¿beginning with a list of the top ten reasons for upgrading. The book¿s companion DVD includes a zoomable, interactive tour of a typical computer; interactive tutorials on using the Windows Control Panel and other Windows software components to configure and control new hardware; video clips from TechTV shows demonstrating upgrading issues, and more.

Techtv's Upgrading Your PC

Soper, Mark Edward

Computer Science

In this volume, Leo Laporte and his co-hosts at The Screen Savers TV show provide a year¿s worth of anecdotes, tips, factoids, and musings about the machines at the center of our lives. A page is devoted to each day of the year, and each page includes several elements: typically a single-topic essay that takes up most of the page (on subjects as varied as ergonomics, Easter eggs in popular programs, processor overclocking, and discount-travel Web sites), and hints, tips, references to worthwhile software, and goofy trivia. As you make your way through the year, you¿ll discover how to keep PC hassles to a minimum while learning something about technology and its impact on society¿all delivered with the wit and wisdom of your favorite stars from The Screen Savers!

TechTV Leo Laporte's 2004 Technology Almanac

Laporte, Leo

Morrone, Megan

Networking & Cloud Computing

About the Author Leo Laporte is the co-host of The Screen Savers and Call for Help on TechTV. He has been a television and radio personality for more than two decades. He won an Emmy award in 1997 for his work on MSNBC's The Site. Leo lives on a small farm in northern California with his wife, Jennifer, two children, two goats, two sheep and two cats. Megan Morrone is a regular contributor, writer, frequent host and resident Mom of The Screen Savers on TechTV. She began her TechTV career as the web producer and shortly after her arrival was forced kicking and screaming in front of the camera. Megan recently became a real mom herself, but did not (much to the chagrin of fans) actually give birth on TV.

TechTV Leo Laporte's 2004 Technology Almanac: Barnes and Noble

Leo Laporte

Business & Money

You've lifted weights to improve your strength. You've taken ballet classes to improve your grace. You've enrolled in putting clinics and driving seminars. You've even gone on golfing vacations. (How you suffer!) You've done everything you can think of to improve yourself in pursuit of a better golf game; why not see how technology can help? In these pages, noted golf author (and darn good golfer himself) Andy Brumer provides fascinating insight into how technology is changing the game of golf and how you can improve your game because of it. You'll find a four-color, highly illustrated assessment of the latest technology being employed in clubs, balls, and every other golf-related item you can think of as well as an examination of how that technology is affecting the game. Peppered throughout are interviews with golf-world greats like Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Phil Mickelson, Barney Adams (inventor of the Tight Lies fairway woods), Justin Leonard, Amy Alcott, a top ladies professional, and more.

Techtv's Guide to the Golf Revolution: How Technology Is Driving the Game

Sports & Outdoors

Brumer, Andy

Golf

X-Play, the brutally honest television show that serves up reviews, previews, and features about your favorite videogames every day on G4TechTV, brings its insights to print! With its blend of sarcastic wit and genuine passion, the cast and crew of X-Play examine the best and worst of recent games, plus chat with game developers and designers, give you cheat codes to some cool games, and answer all your burning need-to-know questions about the cast and crew. Best of all, the information is delivered in the funny, edgy voice of the show and its creators.

The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Video Games from G4TECHTV's Brutally Honest Experts

Games & Strategy Guides

Techtv's Starting an Online Business

Frank Fiore

This keystone to the TechTV Series feeds the readers' personal interests in computer technologies, products, and processes, providing: quick, useful desk reference for general computer facts, trends, technical processes, and recent developments; Tech News, Help and How-Tos, Product Reviews and Previews of the latest developments in software, hardware and gadgets, home and home office management, gaming, and more; entertaining and insightful information and advice for making the most of the digital lifestyle; and up-to-dateGuides to Getting Productive with broadband, wireless, and mobile technologies.

TechTV's Technology Survival Guide

Gentry, Lorna

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