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HT Staff  |  Mar 28, 2003
DVD: My Life as a Dog#&151;Criterion
Audio: 3
Video: 4
Extras: 3
Life and death. Love and loss. Preadolescent sexual stirrings. Sounds like heavy stuff, no? In director Lasse Hallström's hands, this story of 12-year-old Ingemar Johansson and his mother's terminal illness is told with a light touch, balancing tragedy with a cast of eccentric characters that helps Ingemar cope with his tumultuous life. The film is tender and very funny, but Hallström doesn't let its goofy sense of humor dull its emotional impact.
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Coming Attractions
HT Staff  |  Mar 28, 2003
Apex Digital
It might look a bit small if you compare it with the 50-inch big boys, but Apex's 42-inch PL 42HD12W plasma display can hold its own in the category and has a wallet-friendly price. The wall-mountable PL 42HD12W's case is 53 inches wide by 28.5 tall by only 4 thick, and it supports 480p, 720p, and 1080i material. Inside, you'll find a digital comb filter and deinterlacing with 3:2-pulldown detection. On the outside, there's one DVI input and one RGB input, as well as inputs for component, S-video, and composite video and outputs for computer audio and standard speakers. It's a nice overall package that covers all of the bases for $3,999.
Apex Digital
(909) 930-1239
www.apexdigitalinc.com
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Importance of Being Earnest
Hilary Lynch  |  Mar 26, 2003

<I>Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench. Directed by Oliver Parker. Aspect ratio: 2.35:1. Dolby Digital 5.1. 97 minutes. 2002. Buena Vista Home Video 28086. PG. $29.99.</I>

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Tower Speaker Reviews
NHT Evolution T6 Tower surround speaker system
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 26, 2003

Founded in 1986, NHT established its reputation by building small, relatively inexpensive but high-value bookshelf speakers. After 16 years and several changes of ownership and design teams, they still do. However, their product range is now far broader, and their top-of-the-line, floorstanding systems have long been respected as among the best available.

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New Products
New Products -- April 2003
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2003
Go-Video To get all your computer's digital pictures and media clips over to your A/V system you'll need some kind of complicated newfangled interface contraption, right? Nope-all you need is Go-Video's D2730 DVD player, which can connect to your PC either through its PC Card Ethernet adapter or wirelessly with an optional Wi-Fi PC Card.
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Multichannel Music Report Card (2003)
Michael Gaughn  |  Mar 25, 2003
Coming into early 2003, the biggest news about the two high-resolution multichannel audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, might be that they're both still hanging in there.
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Custom Installation How-To
Samsung DVD-V2500 DVD Player/VCR
David Ranada  |  Mar 25, 2003
Most of the Samsung DVD players we've tested have had something "different" about them. There were, for example, a couple of models with Nuon game-playing capability, and the last one we looked at could reproduce still pictures stored on Memory Stick flash-memory cards.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
A Night at the Movies
Jamie Sorcher  |  Mar 25, 2003
If you consider today's monstrous megaplexes and their too-salty popcorn to be cinematic sacrilege, take heart.
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Audio Video News
Industry News Roundup
Barry Willis  |  Mar 23, 2003

The next generation of video projectors will be several magnitudes better than the best ones available now. A hint of things to come was unveiled by Sony Electronics earlier in March, with a public demonstration of its Silicon Crystal Reflective (SXRD) technology. At the heart of SXRD is a high-density fixed-pixel micro display generating over 2 million pixels (1920 x 1080 pixels) of picture data from a 0.78"-diagonal panel with a pixel pitch of 9mm each and an inter-pixel spacing of just 0.35mm.

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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Mar 23, 2003

Can you have it all? Thomas J. Norton takes a look at the new <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?100">Marantz DV-8300 SACD and DVD-Video/Audio player</A> to determine if universal is also better. As Norton notes, this player is almost there.

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