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New Products Set For CEDIA Expo
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2004  | 

The annual Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) Expo is increasingly <I>the</I> debut venue for manufacturers of home theater equipment.

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HT Staff  |  Aug 09, 2004  | 
DVD: South Park: The Complete Fourth Season—Paramount
Video: 3
Audio: 3
Extras: 3
South Park was just warming up in season four, with the introduction, sans fanfare, of handicapped Timmy, who has since developed his own enormous following and would go on to be a dominant force throughout a year ranging from the esoteric nostalgia of the Trapper Keeper to the boys' first Holy Communion. (A chill just shot down my poor mother's spine.) This oddly timed season contained 17 episodes, with original airdates between April and December of 2000, ending with another fecally gifted yuletide and an homage to the "Spirit of Christmas" video short that began it all.
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Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2004  | 

Thomas J. Norton reviews the follow-up to last year's Editor's Choice Gold Award, the <A HREF="/videoprojectors/604nec">NEC HT1100 DLP video projector</A>. Norton reports that the latest model is more of a good thing.

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Inexpensive High Definition from InFocus
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 09, 2004  | 
You might have thought that the best way to see the Summer Olympics was to brave long security lines, eat lots of calamari, down a few Mythos beers, and pay through the nose for the "cheap" seats at Athens Stadium. But InFocus Corporation thinks they have a better idea. They humbly suggest staying in the comfort of your own home and watching the hundreds of hours of HD Olympic coverage on a huge screen (up to 11 feet wide) courtesy of their newest High Definition home entertainment front projector, the ScreenPlay 5000.
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Polk Announces Birth of Home Theater Quintuplets
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 09, 2004  | 
A proud Polk Audio recently announced the birth of quintuptlets: four new RM Series six-piece, five-channel home theater speaker systems wrapped in swaddling plastic bags, protective styrofoam packing, and beautifully overprinted cardboard cartons. The new arrivals feature slim satellites and powered subwoofers. The cute and cuddly satellites in the new RM6800, RM6900,and RM7300 were selectively bred to be wall-, shelf-, or stand-mounted; and, for the very first time, this new RM Series includes a system (RM7400) with a pair of floorstanding front speakers.
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New DVRs from Samsung
Barry Willis  |  Aug 02, 2004  | 

The DVD format war needn't concern you if you pick up one of Samsung's new digital video recorders, due this fall.

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Sharp's HD LCD TVs
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2004  | 

LCD televisions are making great strides toward truly high-definition performance - in particular, the newest models in the Aquos line from <A HREF="http://www.sharpusa.com">Sharp Electronics</A>.

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Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2004  | 

Steven Stone reviews the <A HREF="/accessories/604camelot">Camelot Technology Dragon 5.1 Plus DVD/CD jitter-reduction device</A>, explaining that "it promises to do for DVD players what the Audio Alchemy box did for CD players: make them sound a lot better."

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Sunshine State's First HD Film Fest
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2004  | 

It's not too late to get tickets for Florida's first high-definition film festival, set for this coming weekend.

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The Master of Multiroom Multitasking
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 02, 2004  | 
Preamp/processors of the world: be scared...be very scared. Anthem Electronics is unleashing their newest preamp/processor/tuner - the AVM30 - on the audio/video world, and this baby is determined to kick plenty of posterior and take plenty of names. "What," asks you, the entertainment-hungry homeowner the AVM30 was designed for, "is so special about this three thousand dollar (actually, $2,999, but who's counting?) pre/pro/tuner (aside from the obviously gorgeous cosmetics which include a brushed-metal front-panel with a blue vacuum fluorescent front-panel display swimming with blue and red LEDs)?" Of course, I'd like to know why you ask such long questions, but we need to get back to the main story...
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Jerry Goldsmith: 1929–2004
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 26, 2004  |  First Published: Jul 27, 2004  | 

Jerry Goldsmith, the film composer who created the accompanying music to everything from radio shows to memorable films such as <I>Patton</I>, <I>Planet of the Apes</I>, <I>In Like Flint</I>, <I>Chinatown</I>, and <I>The Omen</I> (for which he won the Academy Award), died July 21 after an extended battle with cancer.

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Ultimate AV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2004  | 

Thomas J. Norton reviews the inexpensive <A HREF="/videoprojectors/604benq">BenQ PE8700 DLP video projector</A>, explaining why it "has to qualify as the surprise product of early 2004."

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Industry Roundup
Barry Willis  |  Jul 26, 2004  | 

ClearPix in the clear? On July 21, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee voted 18-9 in favor of the "Family Movie Act." Passage by the full House, Senate, and President would free manufacturers of DVD filtering technology (such as ClearPlay, Inc.) from legal consequences as a result of violating movie industry copyrights. ClearPlay and other companies offering "clean up" technology for feature films have been criticized by members of the Directors Guild of America for violating the sanctity of cinematic art.

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HDTV Forum 2004 Expanded
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2004  | 

HDTV Forum 2004 will be bigger and better than last year's inaugural event, thanks to the addition of dozens of heavyweights from a cross-section of participating industries. Scheduled for August 24&ndash;26 at the Westin Century Plaza in Los Angeles, the theme of this year's confab is "Accelerating the HDTV Transition."

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Integra DPC-8.5
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2004  | 

Are you looking for a high-performance universal player that won't break the bank?

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