Before you build your home theater or turn your spare room into a man-cave, read this important guide to wires and cabling. It will save you plenty of time and money in the end.

There was a time, not so long ago, when television hookups were pretty simple. There were two screws on the back of the set, which went to two spade lugs on a 300-ohm twinlead antenna line, and that was it. Apart from plugging the set into the wall and waiting for the tubes to light [...]

As DVI and HDMI connections become more and more widely used, we are often asked: which is better, DVI (or HDMI) or component video? The answer, as it happens, is not cut-and-dried. First, to clear away one element that can be confusing: DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another, image-quality-wise. The principal [...]