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Totally Tubeless
David Katzmaier  |  Apr 09, 2003
Photo by Tony Cordoza All diagrams by Dimitry Schidlovsky except for the LCD which is by Mark Schrieder. Given that cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) provide the best pictures, why are so many companies moving away from tubes and into new technologies? Because that's how they can make the thinner and lighter TVs everybody's clamoring for.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Copy Rights
Brian C. Fenton  |  Apr 09, 2003
I finally began to trust my 8-year-old son with my electronic equipment and software-he understands my warnings about disc care now that one of his favorite PlayStation titles got scratched so that it crashes at the same point every time. But now a DVD from my three-disc set of The Simpsons' first season has disappeared.
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Tracking Surround
Robert Ripps  |  Apr 09, 2003
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Tower Speaker Reviews
Polk LSi Speaker System
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Apr 09, 2003  |  First Published: Apr 10, 2003
Speakers everywhere: towering gloss-black monoliths in the front, triangles on the sides, and rectangles in the center and back. Polk's LSi speaker system can technically be a 7.3 system, as the powered towers can double as subs. If you're in the mood to count, this system has 27 drivers, including nine tweeters, with 465 watts spread between 40 inches of woofer. That's a lot of drivers. But don't be afraid; the inside isn't full of stars. This system is modular enough that you can break it down into as many or as few pieces as you—or your wallet—see fit.
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Samsung HLM617W Rear-Projection HD Monitor
Mike Wood  |  Apr 09, 2003  |  First Published: Apr 10, 2003
Samsung's HLM617W HD monitor combines rear-projection and DLP technologies in one fine display.

There's something ironic about a rear-projection DLP display. A front or rear DLP projector utilizes millions of microscopic mirrors that reflect light toward or away from the screen for each of the image's pixels. A rear-projection display reflects this projected image off of a large mirror, which bends the image so that it will fit within a shallow, confined space. Samsung's HLM617W makes good use of all of these mirrors in their first 61-inch rear-projection DLP monitor.

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Custom Installation How-To
Lighting for Dummies Home Theater Reviewers
Larry Houser  |  Apr 09, 2003  |  First Published: Apr 10, 2003
Simple tools to create the ideal lighting environment for your home theater.

When you go to a movie theater, you get your first indication that the movie is about to begin when the lights turn off. So what's the big deal over lighting systems if we only plan to watch movies in the dark?

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Other Source Component Reviews
CyberHome Prism DVD Player
Chris Chiarella  |  Apr 09, 2003  |  First Published: Apr 10, 2003
By the time you read this, Paramount's two-disc special collector's edition of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home should be available. While it was never my favorite Star Trek film, the movie does offer some memorable funny-because-they're-true lines. One that I often quote occurs when time-traveling Scotty confronts a 20th-century computer. When he eventually realizes that he'll have to use a horribly outdated keyboard, he quips, "How quaint."
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Audio Video News
Manufacturer's Response
Dan Miller  |  Apr 07, 2003

We at Marantz wish to thank <I>SGHT</I> for the opportunity to have our VP-12S2 reviewed by your publication. While we recognize your efforts to be thorough and accurate in your writing, however, we cannot help but to take the primary reviewer, Peter Putman, to task on a few important points.

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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Apr 06, 2003

Michael Fremer interfaces the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?105">Denon AVR-5803 A/V receiver and DVD-9000 DVD-Video/Audio player</A> with his home theater system and hits the power button, asking, "What's possibly left to add to an A/V receiver?" MF finds out there always seem to be a couple more things.

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Audio Video News
Flat Panels Take Off
 |  Apr 06, 2003

Electronics retailers might have been hammered into submission over the past few months were it not for the surging popularity of flat-panel televisions.

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