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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Canton Movie LE 125 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 01, 2003
Speaker System Small sats, a big sub, and visions of hops and sausages.

My sociological spiel about the French in my JMlab Digital Home Cinema System review (April 2003) inadvertently hit newsstands around the start of the war with Iraq, so I'll limit my wantonly idiotic cultural commentary on the Germans to food and drink references. Have you ever tried their smoked beer? I'm not joking. It's called Rauchbier, and it's delicious. I should note that, although my byline is German, my ethnic makeup is German, English, Scots, and Irish, and they all make good beer. My oft-misspelled name literally translates as "meat man" (no jokes, please), and my great-grandfather was the last in a long line of sausage-makers. After he emigrated from Germany, he continued to practice his craft in New Jersey. According to my father, his sausages were so rich that you had to wash them down with a quart of milk.

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Tower Speaker ReviewsSubwoofer Reviews
B&W DM 602 Series 3 Surround Speaker System
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 01, 2003

The model designation "DM" might not sound like anything special, but it has a long history with B&W. Models such as the DM 6, fondly remembered by audiophiles as the "pregnant penguin," enjoyed a modest following in the 1970s, when then-small English speaker company Bowers & Wilkins was knocking out attendees at hi-fi show demonstrations. B&W is now, by most accounts, the biggest speaker company in the UK. Its model range has increased exponentially since those early days, but the DM prefix is still very much alive.

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LCD TV Reviews
Sharp LC-37HV4U LCD HD Monitor
Mike Wood  |  Sep 01, 2003
LCD bulks up and stays thin at the same time.

Getting big is easy. Just lift weights and eat as much as you can. Losing weight is a little harder: less food, more exercise. The trick is adding muscle mass without adding excess fat. Serious fitness competitors endure grueling weight-lifting workouts and major cardio routines, and they eat frequent low-fat, low-calorie meals to bulk up and stay lean. Sharp has accomplished this same trick with their AQUOS LCD display line without the expensive gym membership.

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A Home Theater Humdinger
Montgomery Ingham  |  Sep 01, 2003
Baseball slugger Mark McGwire's home theater has a backbone of performance, reliability, and ease of use.

Few Americans can forget the images of September 8, 1998, when St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire slammed the magic number 62 homer that made him Major League Baseball's single-season home-run record breaker. Now retired from baseball, McGwire spends his well-earned time off with his family, golfing, and of course enjoying his wholehouse entertainment system. In 1997, McGwire teamed up with home entertainment integrator Sean S. Fields, president of Audio/Video Entertainment, and they've been on a winning streak ever since.

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Audio Video News
Fall Football in Dolby Digital 5.1
HT Staff  |  Aug 28, 2003
Televised gridiron realism will move up a level this season. More college and professional football games will be broadcast in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, according to an August 28 announcement from San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories.
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New Products
New Products - September 2003
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2003
PanasonicIt's a tough call: do you want a hard-drive video recorder so you can save TV shows without disc clutter, or a DVD recorder so you can keep your recordings forever? Panasonic's DMR-E80H gives you both options in a single package.
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Other Tech
Plasma Partners
Peter Pachal  |  Aug 27, 2003

Photo by Tony Cordoza In the future, people won't have to worry about speakers for their TVs. At least that's the message from most Hollywood filmmakers, who invariably depict future TVs as super-sharp wall-size screens with audio that comes out of thin air.

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Audio Video News
Samsung DVD-RAM Recorder
HT Staff  |  Aug 27, 2003
DVD-RAM recorders are among the wave of new products that promise to revolutionize the way consumers interact with video content.
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Audio Video News
TiVo's Record Quarter
 |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

<A HREF=http://www.tivo.com>TiVo</A> may be this year's hot ticket.

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Audio Video News
Video-on-Demand on the Rise
Barry Willis  |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

Video-on-Demand (VOD), long one of the cable industry's holy grails, is increasingly becoming a reality.

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