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Within easy reach
Budget-priced remote lighting controls lets you operate lights from anywhere in your house.
BY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE / Knight Ridder Newspapers
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The house that tech built
Imagine a house that knows what kind of television shows the homeowners like based on the type of entertainment they've watched in the past -- then automatically tapes them. Or a home that turns on the hot tub at just the right moment, then adjusts the room temperature, dims the lights and plays the latest music based on the homeowner's preferences.
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Jan Jarvis,
Knight Ridder,
03/19/2002 08:01 AM PDT)
Researchers plan to create a smart house
Imagine a house that knows what kind of television shows the homeowners like based on the type of entertainment they've watched in the past - then automatically tapes them.
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Jan Jarvis,
Knight Ridder Newspapers,
03/19/2002 08:01 AM PDT)
Homebodies get 3 good game options
A recent study shows that 72 percent of consumers plan to spend more time at home than they did in past holiday periods this year. That means, of course, more dollars are going to be spent on home entertainme.
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Langston Wertz Jr. ,
The Charlotte Observer,
03/19/2002 08:01 AM PDT)
Digital home entertainment approaching convergence
They are the latest in digital home entertainment, so new we're not even sure what to call them: Internet-enabled boxes you connect to your stereo system, TV and home network that are designed to play MP3s and Internet radio as well as host your music collection.
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By Ron Harris,
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
03/19/2002 08:01 AM PDT)
Performance varies among audio download devices
They are the latest in digital home entertainment, so new we're not even sure what to call them.They are Internet-enabled boxes you connect to your stereo system, TV and home network that are designed to play MP3s and Internet radio as well as host your music collection.
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By Ron Harris,
Associated Press,
03/19/2002 08:01 AM PDT)
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Media rooms
Increasingly, people building new homes are putting more thought into their home entertainment systems.
BY MOLLY MILLETT / St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Digital darkroom gets new gadgets
While I was walking around the 2002 Photo Marketing Association Convention in Orlando, Fla., I felt like a kid in a candy store. Dozens of new digital darkroom tools were introduced and shown.
By Rick Sammon / ASSOCIATED PRESS
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How to pick up Internet radio stations on your stereo
Recently, using Real Audio on my PC, I came across a radio station in Boston that I just loved. The only problem: my computer is upstairs, my stereo downstairs. I tried solving that but going upstairs more. That got old fast. Now I don't have to...
Gary Nielson / RealCities.com
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