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Creative Zen Vision:M Portable Media Player
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006  | 
The Short Form
$300 / 4 x 2.5 x 0.8 IN / 5.8 OZ / us.creative.com / 800-998-1000
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SLS Audio Q-Line Silver Surround Sound System
Rob Sabin  |  May 04, 2006  | 

I've been talking up this proud little home theater system with friends, and the reaction has been universal. "SLS?" they ask, scratching their mystified noggins. "Never heard of 'em."

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'I Want It All!'
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  May 04, 2006  | 

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HomePlug & I
 |  May 04, 2006  | 

Editor's note: When Sound & Vision needed a family to test HomePlug - the new technology that sends A/V signals through your house's electrical wiring (see Power Play) - reader Kevin Post, a home theater enthusiast and a regular on the S&V Online Forums, filled the bill nicely.

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Tech Talk: Your Brain on Music
David Ranada  |  May 02, 2006  | 

05/02/2006 On April 21, our local National Public Radio outlet, WNYC, broadcast (and streamed over the Internet) an episode of the station's Radio Lab program. This slickly produced series combines aspects of NPR-style radio journalism with modern audio-studio production techniques that are the sonic equivalents of MTV-type visual effects.

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The List
SV Staff  |  May 02, 2006  | 

Seven new products join the list this month. Thanks to our big shootout among budget HDTV front projectors, we've found four highly recommendable models from Samsung, Infocus, Panasonic, and Optoma. B&W's gorgeous XT speaker system also comes on, along with Vizio's highly affordable 42-inch plasma TV.

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Ask The Expert: Primary Colors
 |  May 02, 2006  | 

Q. I was a printer for many years, and in our business we always worked with the primary colors of red, blue, and yellow to derive other colors. Why does the television industry use red, green, and blue as its primary colors? Jack Phillippe Yeadon, PA

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Inner Workings: Inside a Plasma Screen
David Katzmaier  |  May 01, 2006  | 

When a plasma TV isn't displaying an image, the stuff behind the name is just an inert gas - usually a mixture of neon and xenon - but it's a big part of what allows these TVs to measure just 3 to 6 inches thick.

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Installations: Sky High
Jamie Sorcher  |  May 01, 2006  | 

•Photo Gallery

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Marantz DaVed Power-Line Audio System
John Sciacca  |  May 01, 2006  | 

Marantz introduced its DAvED (Digital Audio via Electrical Distribution) system at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and I was immediately wowed by the concept of sending audio over a house's electrical wiring. So I jumped at the chance to play with a pre-production sample.

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Power Play
Rob Medich  |  May 01, 2006  | 

About six years ago, electronics-industry honchos started holding big powwows to discuss the feasibility of giving household power lines (the electrical wiring you plug all your stuff into) the ability to also carry communications signals - as in music, computer data, Internet access, episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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THE GADGET GIRL: PowerSquid - Armed and Ready
 |  May 01, 2006  | 

With all the glamorous gear associated with home theater (like big plasma TVs), it's hard to get worked up over a plain old power strip. Still, it's better to have one than not. My biggest frustration with typical strips is that they make it hard to plug in all of my gadgets. All it takes is two or three wall warts to render half of the strip useless.

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S&V Q&A — April 2006
Ian G. Masters  |  Apr 26, 2006  | 

HDTV BORDER TOWN

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Sanyo xacti HD1 Digital Camcorder
Michael Antonoff  |  Apr 06, 2006  | 
$800
•Records 720p-format (1,280 x 720-pixel, progressive-scan) high-def video onto an SD card (not included) •Shoots 5-megapixel stills with flash •2.25-in (diagonal) organic-LED screen •10x
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Palm TX PDA/Media Player
 |  Apr 06, 2006  | 
$299
•4-inch, 320 x 480-pixel color touchscreen •128 MB of memory (expandable with memory card) •Plays MP3 audio files •Displays JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD, and PSX image files •Plays AVI, WMV,
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