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Microsoft Achieves Complete Home Domination

John Sciacca beholds Microsoft's search for the best PC-based installation.
By John Sciacca

Posted September 12, 2008
You may consider Jim Carrey to be many things - comedic genius, overpaid goofball - but technological futurist probably isn't one of them. However, his prediction in the 1996 movie The Cable Guy has proved to be surprisingly accurate: "The future is now!
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Installations: A Higher Power

When a New York City landmark needed an innovative new sound system, Definitive Technology came to the rescue.
By John Sciacca

Posted November 6, 2007
Cathedrals are almost preternaturally quiet havens where even the softest whispers, shuffling in the pews, or footsteps across marble floors can seem blasphemously loud.
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Installations: Let Us Entertain You

S&V's custom installer takes you inside one of his own projects — a massive house built with entertaining in mind.
By John Sciacca

Posted October 5, 2007
While it might take a village to raise a child, it takes an army and lots of time to build an estate! Custom Theater and Audio (CTA) in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, where I work as lead system designer, was recently involved in all aspects of the A/V design and installation for Phil and Janet Pate's new home in North Myrtle Beach.
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A Winning System

At home with the Ludlows, winners of the XM & Polk Audio home-entertainment makeover contest
By John Sciacca

Posted October 2, 2005
Writing for Sound & Vision has taken me to such exotic locales as an aircraft carrier at sea and George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch.
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