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Digital Audio's Last Frontiers
David Ranada  |  Jan 13, 2003
This CES saw the official introduction of what used to be called the IBOC (in-Band, on-channel) terrestrial digital radio system, freshly renamed HD Radio (for high-definition) by its promotor, iBiquity.
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 |  Jan 12, 2003

Steven Stone fires up the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?78">Manley Snapper monoblock tube power amplifier</A> to determine whether or not it's finally time "for tube power amplifiers to make an inroad into home theater."

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More for Less and Blasts from the Past
Rich Warren  |  Jan 11, 2003
The Consumer Electronics Association has not yet released total attendance figures, but it appears fairly certain that the 2003 CES will go down as the best attended in CES history.
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Flat TVs Get Bigger, and Cable Crashes the Party
Al Griffin  |  Jan 11, 2003
Roaming the packed halls of CES 2003, I'm not surprised to see a continuation of many of last year's video trends. Flat-panel plasma and LCD TVs are everywhere. Tube-type HDTVs, though upstaged by their slim, wall-hanging cousins, are still around and selling at increasingly attractive prices.
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Act Wirelessly, Link Globally
Michael Antonoff  |  Jan 11, 2003
Somewhere along the way to the 2003 edition of CES, just about everything calling itself a convergence product sprouted wings.
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CES 2003 Scrapbook
Peter Pachal  |  Jan 11, 2003
Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith relaxes with a little video golf at the Motorola booth.

mont2 Meridian shows off some of the available DVD-Audio titles at its booth.

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CES 2003: The Unauthorized List
Peter Pachal  |  Jan 11, 2003
Virtually every company, brand, and industry coalition that attends the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas takes the opportunity to lay claim to the most "remarkable," "groundbreaking," or-three cheers for everyone's favorite-"innovative" developments at CES. Of course, they can't all be right.
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TV Walls, Digital Radio, and Double-Duty Cams
Rich Warren  |  Jan 10, 2003
The first day of the International CES ended on a colorful note at a Sharp press conference on the convention floor in front of scores of its LCD TVs. The company arrayed rows and rows of its flat-screen TVs, from 13 to 37 inches - a total of 286 displays - as the focus of its space.
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JVC's Private Show
Rich Warren  |  Jan 10, 2003
Late on Day Two, JVC demanded that the entire press corps troop across town from the Convention Center to the Mandalay Bay hotel, where it was exhibiting privately - not officially a part of CES. However, the trip paid off in an impressive array of new and innovative products.
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2003 CES, Day Four
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2003

Runco has made great strides in projector development recently. The Union City, CA&ndash;based company unveiled three new DLP projectors in Las Vegas, all of them sporting single 16:9 HD2 chips, DVI inputs, and 1280 x 720 resolution. The least expensive of the three, the Reflection CL-720, supports the primary varieties of NTSC, PAL, and SECAM, and can be ordered from the factory with a short throw or long throw lens, for images as small as 40" diagonally or up to as large as 300". Brightness is specified at 750 ANSI Lumens when the projector is calibrated for home theater; contrast ratio is a very respectable 1500:1. The CL-720 is said to be "HDTV ready," although the product sheet handed out at the LV Convention Center doesn't list any ATSC format among those supported.

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