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HT Staff  |  May 08, 2003
DVD: The Mission—Warner Brothers (Web Exclusive)
Video: 2
Audio: 3
Extras: 2
Despite its ambitious intentions, Roland Joffe's treatise on sin and redemption in the South American rain forest falls well short of epic proportions, the main problem being a script (penned by David Lean collaborator Robert Bolt) that fails to rouse any strong emotions. The film is beautifully photographed, though. While its picture clarity is on the soft side, Argentina's lush greenery and awe-inspiring waterfalls are pleasing to the eye in this 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer. The audio is sufficiently powerful, whether the newly mastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack delivers the rush of cascading water, the whiz of arrows, or Ennio Morricone's simultaneously mournful and hopeful score.
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Music Reviews
Your Garage or Mine?
Ken Richardson  |  May 05, 2003
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Other Tech
Digital Radio Comes Down to Earth
Ivan Berger  |  May 05, 2003

(Homepage illustration by Dan Vasconcellos) You've been on a long drive, but you're now close enough to home to receive your favorite hometown station, right on time for the local news and then some music. A couple of miles after you tune it in, the sound suddenly blossoms, and the radio's display starts showing you what's playing and who's performing it.

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Other Tech
The Cutting Edge: Neuros HD MP3 Player
Michael Antonoff  |  May 05, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza Portable MP3 players haven't changed much over the last few years except they've added capacity even while shrinking in size and weight.
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Audio Video News
HE2003 Seminars Announced
HT Staff  |  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 that will 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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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  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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Audio Video News
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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Audio Video News
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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Audio Video News
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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Audio Video News
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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