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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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Does Michael Know You're Here?
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

Fans of "The Office" would recognize Melora Hardin in a heartbeat as Jan, Michael's boss. "Monk" fans think of her as Trudy #2. And if you're addicted to "Gilmore Girls," the just completed season had Melora playing what we all hope will be a regular role on the series. Bet you didn't know she was an amazing singer though, did you?

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Thiel 3.7 Sighting- And Listening!
Shane Buettner  |  Jun 03, 2006

Thiel's eagerly anticipated CS3.7 was on display and playing music, with the help of Audio Research tube gear and power by Richard Gray's Power Company.

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RCA Misses Flight, Announces HD-DVD Player in Minneapolis
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS June 2, 2006 – For $499, the new RCA HDV5000 HD DVD player is shipping to retailers. The player outputs HD-DVD in either 720p or 1080i output via HDMI and upconverts standard DVDs to either 720p or 1080i via its HDMI interface as well. Audio features include built-in multichannel decoders for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD (2 channel), DTS and DTS-HD (5.1 channel) through either the HDMI interact or a S/PDIF output.

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Blu-Friday, Part Deux
Shane Buettner  |  Jun 03, 2006

Although everything was blue at the Blu-ray introduction, including the martinis,no one was feeling blue when we were invited into a large theater and shown comparisons of standard definition video vs. high-definition on one of Sony's 4K SXRD digital cinema projectors.

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