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Niro TWO 6.1 Home Theater Systems
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Feb 27, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza There's no shortage of home theater systems. There are big ones and small ones, black ones and silver ones, expensive ones and cheap ones. There are systems that come all in one box, and systems that come in half a dozen.
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Other Tech
Delphi SkyFi XM Satellite Radio Receiver
Peter Pachal  |  Feb 27, 2003
From their TV ads, it's easy to see that both XM and Sirius satellite radio are aimed first and foremost at the car market. Sirius commercials portray a typical listener as a family man who loves being behind the wheel, while XM's incorporate strangely violent imagery of grand pianos plunging onto highways and shattering into millions of pieces.
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Audio Video News
NAD's Affordable New Disc Player
HT Staff  |  Feb 26, 2003
Great performance doesn't have to be expensive. That's always been NAD's philosophy.
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Subwoofer Reviews
Velodyne CHT-10 Subwoofer
Chris Lewis  |  Feb 24, 2003  |  First Published: Feb 25, 2003
Nice little sub, nice little price.

It's funny when I think back now about how long I resisted getting a cell phone. Maybe it had something to do with living in Los Angeles and watching people in their spotless, scratch-free SUVs: latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, chattering away to someone they want us to think is their agent but is more likely their dog's therapist—or no one at all. Now that I have one, though, I don't know how I lived without it. The same

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New Products
New Products—February/March 2003
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2003
JVC No room for one more component in your rack? How about half of one? At 2 1/4 inches thick, JVC's XV-N5SL DVD player won't crowd anyone. It still does everything a chubbier player can do, including deliver progressive-scan images through its component-video output and perform 2:3 pulldown to compensate for frame-rate differences between video and film.
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AV Receiver Reviews
Sunfire Ultimate Digital Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Feb 23, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza Naming your company's very first A/V receiver "Ultimate" is a pretty bold move, but Sunfire founder Bob Carver has never been the shy and retiring type.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Making the Cut
Michael Antonoff  |  Feb 23, 2003
To address concerns over violence, sex, and profanity in popular films, a number of companies have emerged that create "sanitized" versions of VHS tapes or DVDs for a fee.
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Tracking Surround
Ken Richardson  |  Feb 23, 2003

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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Feb 23, 2003

From the January issue, Peter Putman lights up the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?92">Epson America PowerLite TW100 LCD front projector</A> to see if real home theater projectors exist at under five grand. As Putman notes, "Epson's entrance into the home-theater projector arena has long been anticipated."

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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Wins Antitrust Case
Barry Willis  |  Feb 23, 2003

Blockbuster, Inc. has won again, in something of a replay of last July's <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1330">dismissal</A> of an antitrust suit brought against the company in San Antonio, TX.

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