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The Future of Recorded Music - Part 3
 |  Jul 04, 2006

I wouldn't count on the CD disappearing any time soon. For one thing, only a third of the homes in this country currently have broadband access. Although most homes with PCs do have broadband, what that tells us is that a lot of people don't have computers. Nor do such products continue to grow as a matter of course.

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Polk Audio LC265i-IP In-Wall IP Speaker System
John Sciacca  |  Jul 03, 2006

You can't rush a good thing, and some things just aren't ready until they're ready. With electronics, coming to market too early usually means a product that's lacking in features, full of bugs, and short on performance.

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NetStreams DigiLinX Audio System
John Sciacca  |  Jul 03, 2006

With few exceptions, multiroom audio systems still distribute music the same way they did 20 years ago: Central stacks of source components and amplifiers route signals to speakers around the home over hundreds of feet of speaker cabling. But this approach has its drawbacks. Resistance, capacitance and inductance build up over long wires, adding up to signal losses and compromised performance.

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Samsung HP-S5053 50-inch Plasma HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Jul 03, 2006

Samsung has its hands in so many different TV categories - front- and rear-projection DLP TVs, flat-panel plasma and LCD sets, even old-school cathode-ray tube models - that it's hard to keep track of all the stuff they sell.

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MovieBeam Home Theater Jukebox Player
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 03, 2006

Blockbuster, Netflix, and on-demand cable are among the expanding number of ways to rent movies. One of the latest is MovieBeam, a jukebox for your home theater that self-stocks via an off-air antenna.

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Home Theater Plus
Jamie Sorcher  |  Jul 03, 2006
Taking the Big View The ceiling-mounted Yamaha DPX-1300 DLP projector (foreground) beams its image onto a custom-made 140-inch diagonal Stewart FireHawk screen.

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The Dark Side of the Tune
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 03, 2006

Did you hear that just now...? No, you didn't. You were talking on your cellphone, probably while listening to your iPod. This morning I saw a guy talking on his cellphone, listening to his iPod, and eating a cheeseburger - all at once. I just prayed that he wasn't going to get behind the wheel. But I digress.

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Shootout: Three Wireless Multiroom Music Systems
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 03, 2006

What's wrong with this picture? Right this moment, you can whip out your cellphone and call Directory Assistance in Sri Lanka, halfway around the world. On the other hand, you need wires (probably poorly concealed under the carpet) to run audio from your home theater to your home office.

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Canton CD 200 Series Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Jul 02, 2006

Old joke: Heaven is the place where the police are British, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, bureaucrats Swiss, and the engineers German. Hell is the place where the cooks are British, the engineers Italian, bureaucrats French, lovers Swiss, and the police German.

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The Custom Installer: The Media Server Revolution
John Sciacca  |  Jul 02, 2006

Back in high school, I had to write an essay on "the more things change, the more they stay the same." (I'm sure the teacher enjoyed reading it about as much as I enjoyed writing it.) While that might hold true for many things, it couldn't be more off base when describing the constantly evolving world of technology.

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