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Audio Video News
TV and Dolby Digital
HT Staff  |  Apr 24, 2003
Surround sound via Dolby Digital is becoming a standard for an increasing number of television broadcasts. The past few months have seen many special broadcast using technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, including Super Bowl XXXVII, the GRAMMY® Awards, the Academy Awards, NASCAR’s Daytona 500, the NCAA basketball tournament, and the NBA playoffs. All of these special events have been broadcast in Dolby Digital 5.1.
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Audio Video News
Software Reviews
HT Staff  |  Apr 24, 2003
Pink Floyd—The Dark Side of the Moon (SACD, EMI Records)
I can't think of many rock bands that are a better fit for the multichannel treatment than Pink Floyd. In addition to their music's many other pioneering aspects, toying with dimensions and perspective has never been something that the band was afraid to do. While it must've been a great temptation to incorporate sonic gymnastics of every kind into this material, the SACD's 5.1 mix has enough presence to make it interesting but enough subtlety to keep it legitimate. You get your experimentation, but it's rarely distracting or overpowering.
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Other Tech
Online Shoppers Beware!
John Sciacca  |  Apr 21, 2003
Illustration by Turnstyle Imaging Years ago, if you wanted a new piece of gear, you'd go down to your local stereo shop, describe what you were looking for, audition a couple of pieces, make your selection, and then pay the sticker price.
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New Products
New Products -- May 2003
SV Staff  |  Apr 21, 2003
Denon The first universal player from Denon, the DVD-2900 will play both DVD-Audio discs and Super Audio CDs, and it has Dolby Digital and DTS decoders, too.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Big Sci
Steve Simels  |  Apr 21, 2003
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Audio Video News
High-Def Film Festival
Barry Willis  |  Apr 20, 2003

The weekend of June 5-8 promises to be a busy one for high-definition fans on the West Coast. <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com/">Home Entertainment Expo 2003</A> takes place during those days at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, simultaneously with this year's <A HREF="http://www.hdfest.com">HDFEST</A> at the Los Angeles Film School.

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Audio Video News
Philips Expands Nexperia
 |  Apr 20, 2003

By December of this year, home-theater-in-a-box systems may be able to record television programs, archive digital videotape on recordable DVDs, and perform other technical feats now possible only with megabuck gear.

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Audio Video News
DTV Sales Up 36%in January
 |  Apr 20, 2003

The <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) believes that digital television sales will go off the chart this year.

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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Apr 20, 2003

In these days of DLP, is there room for any other projector technology? Thomas J. Norton sets out to find the answer as he reviews the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?109">Sony VPL-VW12HT LCD video projector</A>. As TJN discovers, there may be life yet in the LCD, especially when combined with a FireHawk screen.

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Audio Video News
Software Reviews
HT Staff  |  Apr 17, 2003
DVD: The Transporter—20th Century Fox
Audio 4
Video 4
Extras 3
In this film's transport to DVD, 20th Century Fox was able to keep the enthralling lack of plot and the eye-bleeding action scenes intact. The stone-faced Jason Statham plays a driver that transports stuff. I really mean stuff; he'll drive anything anywhere. Carrying the entire movie on about 100 lines of dialogue, Statham mostly just runs around punching, kicking, and shooting. At one point, he even puts his shirt on. This isn't to say that the movie isn't entertaining; it's just as intelligent as the banjo player from Deliverance.
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