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 |  May 04, 2003

Steven Stone sets up the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?113">Vienna Acoustics Strauss surround speaker system</A> and puts them to the test. Stone emerges with a smile on his face, declaring, "I'll miss them when they're gone."

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HE2003 Winners
 |  May 04, 2003

For the third year in a row, <I>Quebec Audio-Video Magazine</I> has offered its readers a chance to win an all-expense-paid trip for two to the Home Entertainment Show&mdash;or a trip to the beautiful Charlevoix region of the province of Quebec, Canada, for a musical experience at Le Domaine Forget concert hall.

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Powell: Content is King
Barry Willis  |  May 04, 2003

The key to growth for digital television is a broad array of readily available content, according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell.

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HE2003 Seminars Announced
 |  May 04, 2003

Show attendees at Home Entertainment 2003, the hi-fi and home theater event of the year, will be treated to nearly a dozen educational seminars to help guide and inform them about what and how to buy the new and sometimes confusing home audio/video and home theater products available today.

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DISH Network Adding HDNet Productions
 |  May 04, 2003

EchoStar Communications Corporation will soon up the ante on its competitors. This summer, the company's <A HREF="http://www.dishnetwork.com">DISH Network</A> service will add two new high definition TV networks, HDNet and HDNet Movies, to its expanding roster of high-def programming.

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Coming Attractions
HT Staff  |  May 01, 2003
V INC.
You gotta love value, and V Inc.'s offering of a 46-inch plasma display for only $3,999 represents a value indeed. The Visio P4 display has a native resolution of 852:480, and it's compatible with 480p, 720p, and 1080i HD formats. It comes with an integrated 181-channel NTSC/PAL tuner, an attractive stand, and a fanless cooling system, which should provide you with nice, quiet viewing. The Visio P4 offers a good compliment of video inputs, including RGB, component, S-video, and composite, as well as a DVI connection. You'll also enjoy this 16:9 plasma's motion-adaptive deinterlacing, 3:2-pulldown recognition, and four adjustable aspect ratios. There's not much that the Visio P4 doesn't have on board, except, of course, a hefty price tag.
V Inc.
(714) 962-4848
www.vinc.us
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Software Reviews
HT Staff  |  May 01, 2003
DVD: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral—Paramount
Video: 2
Audio: 2
Extras: 1
This 1957 version of the famous gunfight that pitted Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday against the Clanton gang rides on the performances of its stars, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. The pair's grudging respect for each other, their relationships with women, and the events that lead to the conflagration at Tombstone (which occupies about six minutes of the 122-minute running time) is at the core of this film, which meanders like a lazy creek in a dusty town. The film doesn't age well, primarily because it seems so cliche-ridden today. Viewers should remind themselves that this movie actually invented many of the Old West cliches we take for granted now, such as the outlaw firing shots at the saloon piano player to inspire him to play.
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Custom Installation How-To
Bravo D1 Upconverting DVD Player
David Ranada  |  Apr 29, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza Just when you thought you had mastered the intricacies of video connectivity-having sorted out composite video, S-video, and the two flavors of component video (interlaced and progressive-scan)-V Inc.'s Bravo D1 comes along to make life complicated again.

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Full-time HD Channels Due in Fall
HT Staff  |  Apr 28, 2003
High-definition programming will expand substantially this year, with the addition of up to three new full-time HD channels from pay-per-view-provider iN Demand. The announcement from the New York-based company was made April 28 by CEO Steve Brenner.
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Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Apr 27, 2003

Thomas J. Norton listens to the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?111">NHT Evolution T6 Tower surround speaker system</A>, which mates the M6 4-driver unit with the B6 subwoofer. TJN also reviews the company's A1 monoblock amplifer and X1 active crossover to determine how well NHT's unique approach to home theater surround works.

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