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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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LOOKING FOR SOME DVD ACTION?
 |  Sep 08, 2005

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

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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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Tracking Surround: Bristling at Stereo with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson
 |  Sep 07, 2005
Wilson (far right) with Porcupine Tree Photo by Lasse Hoile, courtesy Atlantic Your most recent albums, 2002's In Absentia and the new Deadwing (Lava/Atlantic), are both available in DVD-Audio editions from DTS. When you were mixing the last one, you said you didn't want to be influenced by any other surround mixes.
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Two Bass Busters and Solo with Mojo
user  |  Sep 07, 2005
As you probably know, there's bass - and then there's bass. But for the few who really know, there's also BASS.
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Connecting the Dots
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Sep 06, 2005

Sorry to break the news, but your shiny, spiffy iPod is an obsolete piece of junk. Ditto the other electronic toys you tote in your L.L. Bean knapsack. They'll soon be vacuumed up, integrated, and reissued as a new paradigm that we can't live without.

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The Custom Installer: The Rules of Home Theater
John Sciacca  |  Sep 06, 2005

Few sports hold as fast to their traditions as golf. In fact, one of the sport's ruling bodies is known as the Royal and Ancient. Before i was a custom installer, i was a golf pro at a swanky club in northern California.

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Special Report: Mitsubishi WD-52627 HDTV
David Katzmaier  |  Sep 05, 2005
What We Think
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