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Internet Home Alliance's Tim Woods examines the components of a well-designed home entertainment package from Panasonic.

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Home Entertainment Package

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" Hi, I'm Tim Wood with the Internet Home Alliance, and I'm standing here in the media room in front of our Home Entertainment Center, and quite an entertainment center it is. We'll start off with our Panasonic, high definition, flat plasma, 50-inch screen. It's a theater aspect ratio, which means you can watch all those great theater quality movie. The wonderful thing about this unit is that it's incredibly thin. It's just over an inch thick, which means you can put it anywhere. You can mount it on the wall or do what we've done here, which is recess it into a bookcase. That's being said by our progressive stand DVD player from Panasonic. Now, what is progressive stand mean? Well, that's basically supplies you with twice the resolution of a normal DVD player. Below that is our Panasonic CD jukebox, which can hold over a hundred CDs and distribute those CD quality music to every room of the house. Over here, we have our graphic equalizer, which ties in with our Dolby Digital surround sounds stereo system. This also then can distribute that CD quality sound and digital music any room in the house, why? Well, we put structure wiring everywhere. We have our 2+2 system and that allows us to even do individual control for individual room. Below that, we have our Replay TV box from Panasonic. It's a PVR, that's stand for personal video recorder, and it has a hard disk in it. What can you do with that? Well, if you're watching live TV, let see a football game, you can pause the live action, go to the kitchen, get a snack, get a piece of pizza, come back, hit the button again and pick up where you left off. One of the best parts of this whole thing is this one control panel. This one control panel replaces all 8 of these control panels for each one of these individual devices. You can't get more convenient than that."

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