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NCAA Finals in HDTV
 |  Feb 23, 2002  | 

College basketball fans will get right in the midst of the high definition action when the NCAA men's 2003 basketball championship series begins next month.

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Audiophile Theater: Totem Acoustic Dreamcatcher 5.1
HT Staff  |  Feb 21, 2002  | 
Ontario's Totem Acoustic is a company known throughout the audiophile world for its excellent, musical two-channel designs. Less well known is the fact that the company also makes multichannel home theater products that sound very good.
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Faroudja Digital Cinema Source Due in March
HT Staff  |  Feb 20, 2002  | 
One of the most respected names in video is pushing the performance envelope again. Faroudja, a division of Sage, Inc., has introduced the Digital Cinema Source (DCS), an innovative new Native Rate Series video processor.
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Meridian 800/861: "World's Best"
HT Staff  |  Feb 19, 2002  | 
British audio technology company Meridian Audio, Ltd. has announced important upgrades to Version 3 of its 800 optical disc player and 861 reference surround controller, including proprietary encryption and signaling technology.
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Plus Corp.'s New DLP Projectors
HT Staff  |  Feb 19, 2002  | 
Last year, Plus Corporation of America rocked the home theater world with the introduction of the Plus "Piano" HE-3100, a compact DLP video projector with great specifications. Home Theater's Mike Wood gave the little projector two thumbs up, saying all the right compromises were made to get it to market at a ground-breaking price of $3000 retail.
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Sharp Will Build New LCD TV Plant
Barry Willis  |  Feb 17, 2002  | 

Large liquid crystal display screens were among the most intriguing video technologies demonstrated at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show.

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Let the HDTV Rain
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 17, 2002  | 

One of the primary obstacles to getting high-bandwidth video such as HDTV to the home via cable is the limited signal-carrying capacity of what is termed "the last mile." Currently, cable modem users share a data pipe with TV channels that can carry about 30 megabits-per-second (mbps) into their homes.

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New Panasonic DTV Gear at NAB 2002
 |  Feb 17, 2002  | 

Many home theater enthusiasts grumble about the slow pace of the development of digital television without considering the cost of the transition for broadcasters—approximately $2 million per studio. The great change isn't occurring only in our viewing rooms, but also in studios throughout North America.

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Bridget Jones's Diary on DVD
Hilary Lynch  |  Feb 17, 2002  | 

<I>Ren&#233;e Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, James Callis, Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (anamorphic).Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby Digital 2.0 (French). 98 minutes. 2001. Disney Studios B00003CXT7. R. $29.99.</I>

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Warner Driving Down DVD Prices
Barry Willis  |  Feb 17, 2002  | 

Warren Lieberfarb, head of <A HREF="http://www.warnerhomevideo.com">Warner Home Video</A>, thinks Hollywood just doesn't get it when it comes to DVD. In his view, the film industry is making a big mistake by continuing to support the rental market when the real bucks are in sales.

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Runco DLP Projector Features Latest Chipset
HT Staff  |  Feb 11, 2002  | 
One of the biggest names in video projection technology has a hot new DLP projector on the market. (DLP, or "Digital Light Processing," originated at Texas Instruments and has been licensed to projector makers worldwide.) Runco's VX-1000c uses a new TI digital micromirror device (DMD) with a 1280 x 720 pixel array, ideal for 16:9 screens.
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B&W Launches New Subwoofers
HT Staff  |  Feb 11, 2002  | 
In typical British understatement, product literature for B&W's new subwoofers mentions that "movies in particular can be very demanding of subwoofers and some special effects can test them to the limit."
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Home Theater Architect Feedback
Russ Herschelmann  |  Feb 10, 2002  | 

Update from Russ Herschelmann: Wow! <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1203">I asked for feedback</A> about what to do with future Home Theater Architect columns, and you gave it to me! I got 60 replies&mdash;with <I>lots</I> (over 25,000 words) of suggestions and great ideas! Many of you (over 70%) want me to finish discussing Jack and Diane's home theater in detail. Five of you (8.3%) do not. The rest either didn't say, or want me to finish with J&D in the next several issues. Respondents seemed to fall into three groups:

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Washington Probes DBS Merger
Barry Willis  |  Feb 10, 2002  | 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking carefully at the proposed acquisition of Hughes Electronics Corporation by Littleton, CO&ndash;based EchoStar Communications Corporation. Hughes is the parent company of EchoStar rival DirecTV. Voting shareholders of General Motors, Hughes' corporate overlord, approved the sale late last year. If the deal is approved, the two direct broadcast satellite (DBS) services could become one&mdash;and, with 17 million subscribers, one of the largest distributors of television programming in North America.

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HDTV Olympics
 |  Feb 10, 2002  | 

Fire up your HD VCRs, <A HREF="http://www.NBCOlympics.com">NBC</A> and <A HREF="http://www.hd.net/olympics.html">HDNet</A> have managed to put together an impressive schedule of Winter Olympics coverage this year to broadcast in high-definition television on NBC's DTV affiliates and HDNet (channel 199 on DIRECTV). One important caveat however, all programming is delayed one day.

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