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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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Audio Video News
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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Other Tech
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
Mitsu
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Plasma for Less
Al Griffin  |  Sep 05, 2005
What We Think
JVC PD-42X795
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Custom Installation How-To
LG LRY-517 universal DVD recorder/VCR
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Sep 05, 2005

Last time I checked, there were five different recordable-DVD disc types - a potential compatibility catastrophe. Wouldn't it be great if someone invented a player that could play all kinds of DVDs? Even better, what if it was also a recorder?

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Custom Installation How-To
DVD + HDMI
David Ranada  |  Sep 05, 2005
What We Think
Toshiba SD-5980<
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The Sound of Style
Al Griffin  |  Sep 05, 2005

Unlike oxygen, food, or water, surround sound isn't necessary for survival. But if you recently upgraded to a slim, big-screen HDTV, you're probably feeling a need to update the audio part of your system with something equally tasty. Home theater used to mean huge tower speakers or chunky satellites paired with subwoofers that took up as many cubic feet as an SUV's gas tank.

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Other Tech
BackTalk: Steve Buscemi
 |  Sep 05, 2005
From Reservoir Dogs.
I hear you're calling in from the set of The Sopranos. I'm directing the next episode - Episode 5. We're in preproduction right now.
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