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HT Staff  |  Jun 21, 2004
DVD: City of God—Buena Vista
Audio: 3
Video: 4
Extras: 4
The outskirts of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro stand in stark contrast to the festive, colorful city known for drawing tourists from around the world. In squalid, dangerous slums, children grow up relying on the protection of drug lords to survive, learning early on that the city's police force is not to be trusted. City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles, follows one young boy who eventually finds his way out of his miserable living conditions by taking photographs of the violence within.
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Tower Speaker ReviewsSubwoofer Reviews
Aerial Acoustics LR5, CC5, LR3, SW12 surround speaker system
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 20, 2004

Never mind that the cabinets are made in Denmark and the driver technology is German and Danish—Aerial's latest speaker system is American in its size, scope, and reach-for-the-stars performance. It's meant to fill a big space with big sound.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Planet of the Apes:35th Anniversary Widescreen Edition
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jun 20, 2004

<I>Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore. Directed by Franklin Schaffner. Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (anamorphic). DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (Spanish), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (French). Two discs. 112 minutes. 1968. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2220754. G. $26.98.</I>

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Other Tech
Media Servers
Al Griffin  |  Jun 18, 2004
Organizing a CD or DVD collection used to mean alphabetizing a huge pile of discs and painstakingly filing them away on shelves. But a new breed of component called a media server - a cross between a traditional A/V component and a full-featured PC - gives you easy, expanded access to your collection by letting you store it as digital data on a hard-disk drive.
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Media Receivers
Michael Antonoff  |  Jun 18, 2004

Media receivers bridge the gap between computer and home theater by letting you store your audio and video files in one room while you select and play them on an entertainment system in another room. The first digital media receivers were limited to streaming music stored on a PC over a wired network to your stereo.

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Control Systems
John Sciacca  |  Jun 18, 2004

Because we want our audio/video gear to entertain us, not drive us insane with frustration, simplicity has always been the hallmark of a well-designed system. A lot of people avoid that frustration by getting all their components from one company.

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Streaming for Your Pleasure
 |  Jun 18, 2004

Whole-house entertainment means never having to handle physical media. With all your music, photos, and videos parked on a hard drive and accessible through your home network, you can enjoy them in any room where a media receiver is attached to a TV or stereo system.

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Other Tech
Let Your Network Entertain You
 |  Jun 17, 2004
Home audio/video-based networks are made up of three basic components. Media servers take in content from the Internet and other sources, store music, video, and photo files, and distribute them to the network. Media receivers are placed in various rooms along the network to accept content from the server or a PC and transmit it to a TV, audio system, and so on.
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Tracking Surround
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2004
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The Connected Home
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 17, 2004

Source of boxed information: all Parks Associates except "Speed Demons," Yankee Group Oddly enough, when I was growing up two of my favorite cartoon shows held diametrically opposite views of technology in our lives. The Flintstones promoted the simple life.

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