Animoto.com is an online do-it-yourself video production program so easy your grandchildren could absolutely create their own videos. It’s effortless and affordable. We found it fun and quick enough that the shortest attention span can hold out during the production process. For free trial use go to the site and clicked on the get started [...]
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Frugal home theater: 10 ways to win with Roku and Netflix
Times are tough – getting better, but tough. Let’s continue to look at saving money on home theater and consider a little gem called Roku and an awesome provider known as Netflix. You’ll feel frugal as all get out, have all the TV you can consume, and spend less than ten buck per month. Ready? [...]
How I saved $1000 a year on home entertainment
I wanted excellent reception, lots of choices in programming, movies, and CHEAP entertainment at home. I found ways to save $1000 a year and not feel deprived. First, I tried out four home antennas from Winegard, a major manufacturer. Four easy, affordable TV antennas, supplied by Winegard SS-3000 is an amplified low-profile indoor television antenna [...]
How to install a TV antenna for FREE TV
People are abandoning expensive pay TV services for free digital over-air signals. Broadcast TV has come of age. Winegard, premier manufacturer of TV antennas supplied us with evaluation units to try out, after I told them I hadn’t even been close to a TV antenna in 20 years. But take note! It may be too [...]
Discovery Channel, dinosaur science, and chickens
Discovery Channel has a new dinosaur series for the holiday season. Clash of the Dinosaurs has awesome technology — video and science wise. The animation and robotic animation is perfect, giving a feeling of you-are-there. Sit down with your grand children and have a look. Virtual body scans, bones, muscles, and body systems come to [...]
Realize your living room home theater dream
You want a home theater. You have some of the right stuff. How do you build it? Dave Letterman said, “You need huge home theater stuff. Can’t live without it. But first, you gotta have a hundred and fifty-foot living room.” People with 15×17 living rooms, like me, might pile them full of enough sound [...]