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Show Page Home' Magazine! THE! 22 You can dIYHERALD, Friday, October spend a little of'a lot to house your'hdme theater system for By JO WERNE Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers You have accumulated a TV. CD player. VCR, multiple speakers and other electronic bells and whistles. Now you need cabinets to pull it all together. But while people love the entertainment that electronic wonders produce, they don't want to look at the components all the time. big-scre- "People want their electronics camouflaged behind doors," said Robert "Woody" Woodcox, owner of LaStrada interiors & Fine Furniture in Lauderhill, Fla. Whether you choose a free- standing entertainment unit to house your electronics or a unit custom-- home-theat- designed 13, ''imS1 er that fills an entire wall, you have lots of choices of style, material and price. You can spend as little as $3(X) a g, ready-to-assemb- le entertainment cabinet or $50,000 or more for a electronic video theater not including the electronic equipment. If all you want is a cabinet for TV, you will find a your variety of styles in furniture and department stores as well as through businesses that specialize in home theater. If custom-designe- d cabinetry is on your wish list, you can find it in well shops that do custom work as through interior designers and architects. big-scre- Woodcox. who has been making custom cabinets for 30 years, was one of the first to display home-theatunits at the Florida Furniture & Accessory Market several years ago. "I used to make cabinets with a lamSpace Age look, in high-gio"Most people will invest equal- inates with lots of lights," he said. ly in cabinetry and electronics," "People don't want the high-tec- h said Bob Putrino, sales manager of look any more. They want a subCircle Sound Solutions in South dued look. Laminates are not as Miami. "One of our popular cabipopular as they once were. It's nets is a $I,(XXJ black laminate unit woxl, wood, wood today." with glass doors and lots of video Woodcox makes and CD storage." n cabinets for TVs that entertainment start at $1,200, and built-i- n cabi free-standi- large-scree- Free-standi- junction with a subwoofer. (Continued from Page 20) Best Buy. satellite dealers and installers, local electronic stores. For information, call (800) 428-616- because for center and rear channels to get You can put the satellite speak- ers on lop of or next to the TV SPEAKERS Recoton's HTS 9(X) MHz wireless speaker technology produces loud and clear sound from its speakers. Price: $299 subwoofer. $419 rear speakers. $60 transmitter, $109 center speaker or $699 for (hi whole package ($799 includes center channel). Available at: Best Buy. Brands-Mar- t. Incredible Universe. Circuit Citv. Sound Adv ice. For catalogs, 6 call (WW) or (407) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Infinity Systems Micro II system are designed for people who don't want to discard old components in order to take advantage of the new. This three-piec- e waterproof speaker system has two satellite speakers and one speaker that can be used indoors or out. Satellite speakers are small speakers used in con 732-686- 333-686- er ss THEATER 8. units also offer electronic hideaways. For example, speakers are built into the cabinets behind a sheer cloth that lets the sound flow through, "People do not want big. freestanding speakers anymore," said John Ribida, a salesman at Sound Advice in Fort Lauderdaie. they're magnetically shielded to prevent color distortion of the picture. The subwoofer, which provides the bass sounds, can be placed anywhere. Try it in several locations to see which works best. When your budget allows, you can add extra speakers the surround-soun- complete d effect. Price: about $799. Available at: Sound Advice. REMOTE CONTROLS Tired of grabbing for the remote, only to find you picked up ll the wrong one? The 12 can memorize the functions of other remotes. It can be upgraded with the latest advancements in nets that cost $7,000 or more. "Prices depend upon the wood, the molding, the finish and tlie mechanical aspect, whether things pop up or pull out of the unit." he said. LaStrada also makes "face masks" for large TV screens. "Just the screen is exposed, but it's hinged so that you can have full access to the set," he said. Consumers who want a freestanding cabinet have plenty of choices from many manufacturers. Sound Advice offers an entire cabinetry gallery of home-theatfrom Broyhill, Hooker, Warn bold, Dawson and Lexington, among others. er Bill Pitzele, a senior audio-vide- o specialist in a Sound Advice store, said the best seller is a honey-co- wood. lored Shaker-styl- e cabinet with black trim ($1,599) from CWD (Custom Woodwork & Design). "I think it's popular because it infrared remote control technology and can replace up to 12 remote controls for any TV, VCR, cable box, CD player, amplifiers and tuners and satellite receivers. Programming is easy. Price: $15 to t. SI (JO. Available ax: Kmart or blends in with other woods and styles of furniture you may have in your home," Pitzele said. A hunter green traditionally styled cabinet by Broyhill ($1,300) is another big seller, he said. Other choices at Sound Advice include a Dawson pine armoirc ($499), a Wambold Del Mar wall system ($2,199) and a Hooker corner cabinet ($1,699). installaA custom home-theattion begins with a visit to the customer's home "to conduct a survey, determine where the equipment will be placed and discuss the budget," Pitzele said. "We try to get our customers to think about the future. For instance, if they live in an apartment, we ask if they are planning to buy a house one day. If so, we design a system that can grow as their space does. "Then we design the system, set it up in the home and train the customer to use it" er box. CD player, amplifiers and tuners and satellite receiver. It's the easiest to program and use. Price: $15 to $100. Available at: and most elecKmart, Wal-Matronic stores. rt Wal-Mar- One-For-A- Sole Control from Recoton also memorizes the functions of other remotes. It can replace six remote controls for anv TV. VCR. cable A The signals being sent in electronically from the sidelines in the NFL are scrambled. 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