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High-Def Discs and Tapes
Brian C. Fenton  |  Apr 02, 2002

Because every new format seems to set off a format war, we were a little surprised when nine major electronics manufacturers announced that they actually agreed on what the next-generation recordable optical-disc format should be.

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High-Def Discs and Tapes
Doug Newcomb  |  Apr 02, 2002

Four of Hollywood's home-video heavies - DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, Artisan Entertainment, and Universal Studios - have thrown their weight behind a format for distributing films in high-definition, the JVC-developed D-Theater variant of D-VHS.

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High-Def Discs and Tapes
David Ranada  |  Apr 02, 2002

Okay, I know I shouldn't gloat. But I told you so. In a keynote speech at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual convention a year ago, I warned that if the broadcast and cable industries didn't get their act together when it came to putting high-definition signals out there in a big way, high-def programming would be provided by other means.

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Audio Video News
James Loudspeaker's Small, High-Performance Subwoofer
HT Staff  |  Apr 02, 2002
Many home theater fans think all subwoofers are alike.
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Sharp's 30" Widescreen LCD TV Arrives
HT Staff  |  Apr 02, 2002
The two hottest trends in video displays are DLP projection and LCD television. Sharp Electronics Corporation is on top of both of them. On April 3, Sharp announced the retail availability of it first 30" widescreen liquid crystal television, the Aquos LC-30HV2U. The new LCD set is the first in a line of such products to debut this year.
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The Cutting Edge: Sony MXS10 Vaio PC
David Ranada  |  Apr 01, 2002

At $2,800, the least expensive Vaio PC in Sony's MX desktop line doesn't seem like much of a bargain these days, even for a 1.7-GHz, Pentium 4 with an 80-gigabyte (GB) hard drive, 512 megabytes (MB) of memory, the exciting "home" version of Windows XP, and two better-than-average speakers (the 15-inch Sony LCD monitor shown is $600 extra).

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S&V Picks
Peter Pachal  |  Apr 01, 2002

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New Products
New Products - Apr. 2002
SV Staff  |  Apr 01, 2002

Harman Kardon You'll feel surrounded by surround sound choices with Harman Kardon's AVR 520. The receiver decodes Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1- and 6.1-channel soundtracks, including DTS-ES Discrete. You'll need an outboard amp if you have one or two back surround speakers, though, as there are only five powered channels, rated to deliver 75 watts each into 8 ohms.

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Audio Video News
Billy Wilder Dies at 95
Barry Willis  |  Mar 31, 2002

The film industry lost one of its legends on March 27, when writer-director Billy Wilder passed away at his Beverly Hills home. Wilder had been suffering from pneumonia. He was 95.

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Audio Video News
MPEG-4 Gets Big Boost
 |  Mar 31, 2002

MPEG-4 is getting plenty of attention from high-tech companies these days. On March 27, a joint venture involving the technology was announced in Tokyo by seven major electronics and technology companies.

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