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Setting Up an Entertainment Center

Bob meets with Dan Drook to check out the multimedia entertainment center. Dan outlines the planned layout of the media components and describes the special television screen they will use to work with natural light of the room.

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Setting Up an Entertainment Center

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" What we're creating today that multimedia home entertainment center okay -- what that means now what we're gonna do its job. We're gonna keep the standard television so -- can watch the today show in the morning."

" And watch -- weather and news and things like that we're going to make it do is they go into the cabinets which will also house some VCR. The tapes any of the stereo and you know systems equipment. So it's nice and -- type of insulation."

" So we'll be putting in a cabinet here that we'll have all of the things you describe. But I thought the main thing nowadays in multimedia center we've -- huge screen."

" It is and we're not going to forget that because the screen what we're going to put in here is they 72 inch diagonal. So to seeking an idea -- go over here."

" Here. And."

" So over there -- Those if you can imagine a small poignant television -- in front of that you're gonna have -- theater type sure installation at."

" Plastic continue to laminate all of this with the leading immaterial and to build in the counter to what -- kind of -- have a big white screen there on time."

" Wouldn't it wouldn't it was out all the time but it won't we're gonna use our attention cosmopolitan electoral which will be mounted up and threw the glass ceiling here so recessed what it'll be recess it'll be totally out of the way win. It's not being shot on what actually projector. By the way indicate candidate comes down only when you need to predict when you turn the -- which. Will be an liquid crystal."

" One of the problems that I always associated with projection TV's is that he -- to break the room you can't see it very well and we were just talking about how right it can be in here. How do you counteract that problem. Well we built several that."

" And types of screens and one screen we're gonna put in here is a pearl lessons screen Yang samples yes we do -- cream company manufactures a variety projections are. As you'll notice. The screen has April surface and it has some higher reflective of the than a matte white tights green -- so it will allow us to have. Better picture and this type of bright atmosphere. And it's very very thin it's sheer material saluted back can rule out easily be very small space actually the type of spring we put this on its tension -- on the side meaning that you get eight. Perfectly flat viewing area great and what you have to have one of those lucky things with a red green and yellow lights kind of now what we're gonna put in this week came and reef and that analyze the -- we're gonna put in a liquid crystal display projector. We're probably going to -- it up here on the ceiling. And we'll try to recess at recess it and some way so when it you want it on you bring it down. It through projector on the screen comes down. And you got your home theater I can't wait."

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