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Defining Visions: Free Morning in China
Joel Brinkley  |  Sep 11, 2005
I was in Beijing for work a few weeks ago, and one free morning I wandered down the street toward the Forbidden City to do a little shopping. As usual, a virtual army of street hawkers greeted me with pirated DVDs by the handful. In previous trips I paid no attention, but this time I decided to have a look. After all, they cost just $1 each. So out of curiosity I decided to buy a few as a journalism experiment, since I write about issues like this.
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Audio Video News
CEDIA Expo Day 3
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 10, 2005  |  First Published: Sep 11, 2005

But whoever said AV journalists were sane?

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Cool, Cooler, and Coolest
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 10, 2005
After sitting on your butt for an entire day, it's good to be able to walk around the CEDIA EXPO 2005 floor…at least that's what you tell yourself the first two or three miles. But then you start running across the really cool stuff, and all that walking doesn't seem so bad after all.
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CEDIA Expo Day 2
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 10, 2005

First thing Friday morning, the day the show floor opened, I dashed over to Projection Design's booth. The Norwegian manufacturer promised to have something revolutionary. And they did. Their Model Three 1080 single-chip front projector, as the model number suggests, offers a full 1920x1080 resolution. This originates from a brand new TI DLP chip, with full 1920x1080 resolution. That's <I>on the chip</I>, not just on the screen. In short, it does not use the wobulation technology you'll find in all the new 1080p rear projection sets. The latter apparently does not work well with large, front-projection images.

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CEDIA Expo Day 1
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 08, 2005  |  First Published: Sep 09, 2005

Thursday at CEDIA is press day. The floor isn't open, but the day is usually filled with activities. This year things thinned out with the cancellation of several events, notably Toshiba. I suspect HD-DVD was going to be Toshiba's featured attraction, but
the word is out that this year's scheduled launch of HD-DVD has been put off until spring, where the battle will go toe-to-toe, or bit-to-bit, with Blu-ray.

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The Installer Men Cometh
user  |  Sep 08, 2005  |  First Published: Sep 09, 2005
Although the show floor of the CEDIA EXPO 2005 hasn't officially opened yet, there are already hundreds of installers taking advantage of numerous educational classes offered by CEDIA and sponsoring manufacturers. New and old installers alike can learn about anything from remote control programming to acoustical engineering and video calibration. Of course, education is for the men and women who do the real work of installation. Those of us with the cushier jobs - the press - get to eat shrimp and drink free cocktails…
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Other Tech
LOOKING FOR SOME DVD ACTION?
 |  Sep 08, 2005

1 Master and Commander (collectors edition, 20th Century Fox)

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Other Tech
Breaking Out of the Box
John Sciacca  |  Sep 08, 2005

Buying a home theater system used to mean going to a swanky boutique where a designer deftly guided you through the process. Like a tailored suit, your system was carefully assembled one component at a time after hours of diligent auditioning.

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Home Entertainment Show 2006
HT Staff  |  Sep 08, 2005
Primedia's Home Technology Group has announced that the Home Entertainment Show 2006 will take place at the Sheraton Gateway Hilton in Los Angeles, CA on June 1-4, 2006. Previous successful events were held in Los Angeles in 1992, 1995, and 1998.
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Home Entertainment Show 2006
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2005

Primedia's Home Technology Group has announced that the Home Entertainment Show 2006 will take place at the Sheraton Gateway Hilton in Los Angeles, CA on June 1-4, 2006. Previous successful events were held in Los Angeles in 1992, 1995, and 1998.

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