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Reviewing the Features of the Home Entertainment Center

Bob meets up with Tim Woods from the Internet Home Alliance in the living room to check out the Panasonic home entertainment center. The Panasonic wide screen projection HDTV features digital light processing ensuring high definition picture quality from any angle. The TV is tied into the DVD player and also into the surround sound stereo system. The TV signal comes digitally from the Hughes Network System DirecTV which comes in off the satellite. Next Tim shows Bob the Panasonic E-Cam. The camera can be set up anywhere in the house as used as a nanny cam or to keep an eye out for intruders. Tim has a home page set up for the camera on the Panasonic Toughbook. Utilizing the web page, the camera can be accessed through the web at any time and from any place. The Toughbook is totally wireless thanks to the home's Cisco Aironet System. Next they look at the Panasonic LCD screen with a DVD player in it. The screen is very flat and has the same aspect ratio as the large HDTV in the living room.
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Reviewing the Features of the Home Entertainment Center

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" And joining us now Tim woods from the Internet home alliance to look at some of these. Web related gadgets that start off here in the living room right right with -- Home entertainment system wow that's the beauty it is it's a beautiful picture -- and what makes it really unique is something called digital light processing. It's a semiconductor and has about a million micro mirrors on it cement no matter where you are in the room this picture quality remains -- thing this is a projection TV yes it is very hard to believe because -- and it really -- at and TV. But while quality from any angle that you look at it you have very good definition -- wonderful. Now what's interesting about that is we also have this hooked into our dvd player. And covered bridges of Vermont yeah and that beautiful yet know what's great about this this TV the HDTV it's also tied into our surround sound experience. OK so we -- this aspect ratio of the screen you get that theater quality and you'll get the theater sound in the that the sound of it's kind of killing -- that -- physically cut the now the other thing about this is we were -- important network system DirecTV. Which is coming you know satellite all right. So the only cable here is between the set and the satellite right because we're just getting everything digital quality of the felt right. -- on the floor we've got a Panasonic. Which if you go over the kitchen actually what that. Right over here in the Panasonic tough book. We've got where we were and we got the -- sponsors better okay but what's great about these cameras these. And then you -- a home page on the web this is totally wireless it is totally wireless hole that perverts let's go here and that's what's."

" Okay -- what's really cool about this that you see this home page right here."

" If it you sort of a home page on the web and you can go to this no matter where you are if you can get access to the web you can get access to this camera. To your home right you can check out conditions that your home absolutely. And tell us about this the -- this of the Cuban orbit web tablet and it's completely wireless another favorite site of yours -- I'd estimate -- ago. And you can actually surf the web you can do emails from this panel it's great Spirit convenient and again the Cisco Internet system is tied into -- so real literally you can go anywhere in the house you can go on the front porch. And do emails you could even on the top -- write a letter import it to your printer and print -- inside the house you can sit under the trees and surf the web that's right to be here in the kitchen you can download recipes executives -- that that's great speaking of trees -- turn around over here. Look at the outside cameras this is actually coming through. The camera system in the house the -- because it's taking a break he's obviously taking a break yes what you're going to terrorists and at the dock him for the -- how does this work though well this is actually coming through the via cable system in the house and you've seen right here this is not actually the front. Porch and if we go down. You see the front door and what's great about these cameras is that they actually work at night very well to look at the front porch light on it actually see who's standing at the front doors with a great security that I like yeah what else does this do well this is the Panasonic. It's and it's -- LCD screen -- get that very flat screen -- you can put it anywhere in the kitchen that you want. I got a dvd player and that so you can watch this. Whatever signal you're getting whatever you want to get the speakers built in the dvd players written."

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