Peter Pachal

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New Product: Atlantic Technology 10 CSB Corner Subwoofer
Peter Pachal  |  Jun 06, 2006

STEALTH SUB It's not enough for a subwoofer to boom you anymore - today's bass boxes gotta blend in, too. The triangular design of the Atlantic Technology 10 CSB sub will ensure it keeps a low profile in the corner of your home theater - that is, until a movie soundtrack or drum solo calls upon its 10-inch driver and 180-watt amplifier to rock the house.

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New Product: Denon AVR-2807 A/V Receiver
Peter Pachal  |  May 05, 2006

With technology changing so fast these days, dropping more than a grand on an A/V receiver like Denon's AVR-2807 ($1,099) seems a risky proposition. But the HDTV powers appear to have pretty much settled on HDMI as the connector of the future, and this guy definitely has that covered.

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New Product: Dell Inspiron el705 Notebook PC
Peter Pachal  |  May 05, 2006

Designed for the media professional on the move, Dell's Inspiron e1705 notebook ($2,165) comes with Windows XP Media Center Edition and has a high-performance Intel Core Duo processor to power it. Games and videos will live large on the 17-inch widescreen display, and the top-notch Nvidia graphics card makes sure quick motion won't give you any visual hiccups. No time to boot up?

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New Product: JVC EX-A10 Minisystem
Peter Pachal  |  May 05, 2006

Speaker engineers have turned to a lot of different materials over the years to make their creations sound better, but JVC's come up with a new one: sake. By soaking sheets of birch wood in Japanese rice wine, the labcoats at JVC were able to press them together to make wooden drivers, said to improve sound quality because of their natural acoustic properties.

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Other Tech
Creative Zen Vision:M Portable Media Player
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006
The Short Form
$300 / 4 x 2.5 x 0.8 IN / 5.8 OZ / us.creative.com / 800-998-1000
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New Product: Sony Ericsson W300 Walkman Phone
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006

COOL FACTOR With music controls on the outside of its clamshell exterior, Sony Ericsson's W300 Walkman phone knows your tunes are important to you. The included 256-MB Memory Stick Micro card will hold around 75 MP3 or AAC songs, depending on the bit rate; 1-GB cards are available.

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New Product: Brillian 6580iFB 65-inch LCoS HDTV
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006

With a big 65-inch HD screen, the Brillian 6580iFB HDTV ($7,999) already has a lot going on, but there's more in the box to justify its hefty price tag. First of all, it's one of the new high-rez 1080p TVs. LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) technology keeps the pixels small and the space between them smaller, so images always look sharp and clear.

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New Product: MobiBlu DAH-1900 MP3 player
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006

COOL FACTOR While other music portables can claim greater capacity, compactness, or coolness, this digital demon boasts the longest battery life of any MP3 player ever - 150 hours per charge, folks. Next time you decide to skip town for a week, don't even bother bringing the charger with you.

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New Product: NHT Classic Speakers
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006

From a $200 bookshelf model to a 3.5-foot-tall tower ($1,800 a pair), NHT's new Classic speakers have gloss-black finishes that stand out and curves in all the right places. But in redesigning its Super Audio speaker line, the company went for more than just good looks by tailoring the speakers' sound for home theaters.

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New Product: gigabeat S Series Portable Media Player
Peter Pachal  |  May 04, 2006

COOL FACTOR It's nice to see other portable media players keeping up with the iPod, and Toshiba's gigabeat S Series has comparable video chops: a crisp 21/2-inch screen with 320 x 240-pixel resolution.

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