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Custom Installation How-To
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player: Hook Me Up
Rob Sabin  |  Jun 03, 2006
Setting up the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player for the best picture and sound quality is not for the uninitiated. Even home theater experts will face a learning curve to understand the different ways to extract video and audio from the player and the ramifications of each option and will have to read the manual to find what settings in the player's internal menu will yield the desired results.
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Panasonic TH-42PX60U 42-inch Plasma HDTV
Philip Ryan  |  Jun 03, 2006
What We Think
This entry-level Panasonic plasma has a few things going for it, but a couple of performance issues pull it down.
A lot of the recent excitement about flat-panel TVs
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Other Tech
Pioneer Inno XM2go Portable Satellite Radio
John Sciacca  |  Jun 03, 2006

Movie sequels are rarely as good as the originals. Fortunately, just the opposite is true with consumer electronics, where Gen 2 is almost always a good thing, loaded with extra features and tweaked for better performance. In the case of the new Pioneer Inno XM2go portable satellite radio, it's a great thing.

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Other Tech
The Skinny on Everything
Bob Lefsetz  |  Jun 03, 2006

P2P. No longer the story. The press is burned out on it. As are the insiders at music conferences. Bring up file-trading, and they wince. But more people are downloading more files than ever before.

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The Custom Installer: More Questions, More Answers
 |  Jun 03, 2006

Last issue, I talked about the five questions I'm asked most often while working as a custom installer in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. But as I compiled my list, I realized that there are way more questions I hear all the time. So here's my second Top 5 (except this time I cheated and went with 5.1).

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Custom Installation How-To
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player: What's in the Box
Rob Sabin  |  Jun 03, 2006
As soon as you pull it from the carton, you know that the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player means business. Its 17-inch rack-size width and 20 pounds of heft beckon to a day when men were men and DVD players were both taller and heavier than a slice of white bread.
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New Products
New Products for June
 |  Jun 03, 2006

•Outside-The-Home Theater •Atlantic Technology 10 CSB Corner Subwoofer •Cableyoyo Pop Headphone Spool •URC Medius TX-1000 Universal Remote Control •

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Fred & Shane On The Job
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006

UAV's Fred Manteghian and Shane Buettner hard at work searching for video far and wide.

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Tom's Chariot
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006

Our esteemed editor Thomas Norton has the right plate for the job.

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Don't Tweak It If It Ain't Broke
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

Another ask-the-editors session, this one about improving your home theater, was full of sage advice and even a few pretty good one-liners. We made it through almost 40 minutes of give and take until someone asked us which high definition disc format was better, Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Bottom line, we're not sure. The only thing about which we all agree, however, is that this format war stinks for everybody.

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