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Audiophile Theater: Totem Acoustic Dreamcatcher 5.1
HT Staff  |  Feb 21, 2002
Ontario's Totem Acoustic is a company known throughout the audiophile world for its excellent, musical two-channel designs. Less well known is the fact that the company also makes multichannel home theater products that sound very good.
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Audio Video News
Faroudja Digital Cinema Source Due in March
HT Staff  |  Feb 20, 2002
One of the most respected names in video is pushing the performance envelope again. Faroudja, a division of Sage, Inc., has introduced the Digital Cinema Source (DCS), an innovative new Native Rate Series video processor.
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Audio Video News
Meridian 800/861: "World's Best"
HT Staff  |  Feb 19, 2002
British audio technology company Meridian Audio, Ltd. has announced important upgrades to Version 3 of its 800 optical disc player and 861 reference surround controller, including proprietary encryption and signaling technology.
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Audio Video News
Plus Corp.'s New DLP Projectors
HT Staff  |  Feb 19, 2002
Last year, Plus Corporation of America rocked the home theater world with the introduction of the Plus "Piano" HE-3100, a compact DLP video projector with great specifications. Home Theater's Mike Wood gave the little projector two thumbs up, saying all the right compromises were made to get it to market at a ground-breaking price of $3000 retail.
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Fujitsu Plasmavision SlimScreen PDS-5002 HD plasma display
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 19, 2002

Remarkable things are happening in the plasma-display market. Just the other day I saw one for sale in Costco for under $6000. Costco! While one might ponder the cosmic significance of plasma televisions at a warehouse retailer, there's no denying that these displays attract a lot of attention. A big, flat screen hanging on the wall has universal appeal.

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Other Tech
Home Theater Hideaway
Michael Gaughn  |  Feb 18, 2002

You wouldn't know it to look at the "mine's bigger than yours" installations featured in some home theater magazines, but having a decent amount of money to spend on a whole-house audio/video system doesn't necessarily translate into gaudy opulence. Or, to put it another way, modesty isn't always dictated by a limited budget.

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Mitsubishi WS-73909
Al Griffin  |  Feb 18, 2002

Anyone who's set up a home theater system knows how much work is involved. Once you find the right TV and speaker system, you need to round up a stack of components, including a DVD player, a video recorder, and, perhaps, a satellite receiver. Then you have to spin a frightening web of wires to route all of those signals through your A/V receiver or preamp/surround processor.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Living with DVD Extras
Laura Evenson  |  Feb 18, 2002

No wonder people have fallen in love with DVD extras. Increasingly, releases have a little something for everybody, going beyond the usual deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and "behind the scenes" documentaries to include games, Web links, and elaborate featurettes on things like costume design and special effects.

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Audio Video News
Sharp Will Build New LCD TV Plant
Barry Willis  |  Feb 17, 2002

Large liquid crystal display screens were among the most intriguing video technologies demonstrated at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show.

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Audio Video News
Let the HDTV Rain
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 17, 2002

One of the primary obstacles to getting high-bandwidth video such as HDTV to the home via cable is the limited signal-carrying capacity of what is termed "the last mile." Currently, cable modem users share a data pipe with TV channels that can carry about 30 megabits-per-second (mbps) into their homes.

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