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AV Receiver Reviews
Integra DTR-9.1 A/V receiver
Chris Lewis  |  Jun 28, 2001  |  First Published: Jun 29, 2001
Integra's DTR-9.1 A/V receiver has a sound battle plan, thanks to its potent mix of high-end tricks and approachability.

In case you hadn't noticed over the last year, the high-end-receiver war is on. With this donnybrook comes a blurring of the formerly distinct line between the bottom end of the separates market and the high end of the receiver market. It used to be simple: If you had X amount of money or less to spend, you bought a receiver; if you had more in your budget, you bought separates. Now, the competition for home theater dollars in the $2,500-to-$4,000 price range has become fierce, not only between receivers and separates but also amongst receivers themselves.

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Seeing the Digital Light
Al Griffin  |  Jun 26, 2001

Television is something we all know and love -- sometimes without good reason. Critics routinely argue that shows like Temptation Island and WWF Smackdown! have pushed us several steps down the evolutionary ladder, but people still watch them. One thing that has evolved is the technology for displaying video images.

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Subway Series
Tom Nousaine  |  Jun 26, 2001

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Other Tech
Doing Superman Justice
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 26, 2001

Besides Superman, director Richard Donner's films include the Lethal Weapon series, Scrooged, and The Omen.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Souped-Up Superman
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 26, 2001

Be sure to read our uncut, web-exclusive interview with Richard Donner.

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New Products
New Products / June 2001
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2001

JVC

Prep for the future with JVC's RX-9010VBK digital surround receiver. Rated to deliver 120 watts to each of five channels, it has such forward-looking features as a front-panel USB port and an extended frequency response, rated from 7 Hz to 50 kHz ±3 dB, to handle the wider bandwidth of DVD-Audio.

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Audio Video News
Panamax Announces Max 5500 AC Regenerator
HT Staff  |  Jun 26, 2001
The quality of electrical power is often the limiting factor for high performance audio and video systems. Many manufacturers have attempted to address this limitation---caused in large part by electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI)---by designing and marketing surge protectors, AC line filters, uninterruptible power supplies, and various sorts of AC enhancers and generators. Many of these solutions are bulky, expensive, or only partially effective.
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Audio Video News
Myryad Processor Accepts DVD-A, SACD
HT Staff  |  Jun 26, 2001
The surround processor is the heart of every high-end home theater system. Good ones, like Myryad Systems' MDP500, have flexibility built in for unanticipated new formats.
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Audio Video News
Satellite HDTV Gets a Boost
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 24, 2001

EchoStar's Mark Jackson puts it succinctly: "Our customers want access to more channels, and they are increasingly demanding bandwidth-intensive HDTV channels." But there is only so much bandwidth available between the satellite in the sky and the dish on the ground, and that bandwidth is carefully divided among channels. The more channels on the system, the less bandwidth available for added features like HDTV.

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Audio Video News
DTV: Powell, CEA Press Cable Industry
Barry Willis  |  Jun 24, 2001

The cable industry continues to be the major obstacle to expanding the market for digital television (DTV). That's the view of the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org/">Consumer Electronics Association</A>, which in June asked the <A HREF="http://www.fcc.gov">Federal Communications Commission</A> to consider instituting what it termed "a capacity-based dual or multicast cable carriage rule" to encourage the growth of the format.

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