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Groovy Tubes

Mind-expanding widescreen HDTVs from Toshiba, Sony and Mitsubishi in three sizes.
- By Al Griffin
- Posted October 8, 2002
Photos by Tony Cordoza

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Plasma Power

The latest flat-panel TVs are bigger, better -- and cheaper.
- By Al Griffin
- Posted September 23, 2002
Photos by Tony Cordoza Check it out: In the Lab Features Checklist At the height of the stock-market bubble a few years back, I'd occasionally field a call from a rich guy - or his assistant - seeking advice on the cool, new flat-panel plasma TVs he'd been hearing about.
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Loewe Aconda 38-inch HDTV Monitor
- By Al Griffin
- Posted May 16, 2002
You know your life is out of balance when the best looking thing around you is the TV - and it's not even turned on! That was the predicament I found myself in when reviewing the Loewe (pronounced "Loo-va") Aconda widescreen HDTV monitor. Maybe the set looks so good because Europeans (Loewe is based in Germany) have an evolved design sense.

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Light Years Ahead

HDTV-ready Digital Light Processing projectors redefine home theater
- By Al Griffin
- Posted May 16, 2002
My first brush with home theater was in a large, dedicated room equipped with a top-shelf cathode-ray-tube (CRT) front projector, a Faroudja video processor, a 100-inch (diagonal) screen, and a killer sound system. Subsequently, I've measured every home theater experience against that one, making me a tough customer to please.

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Mitsubishi WS-73909

73-inch Rear-Projection HDTV and FireWire-Connected Digital VCR
- By Al Griffin
- Posted February 19, 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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Are You Ready for Some HDTV?

Big-screen sets from Pioneer, Toshiba and Hitachi bring the high-def action home
- By Al Griffin
- Posted December 7, 2001
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Seeing the Digital Light

Two new projectors show off the dazzling potential of Digital Light Processing
- By Al Griffin
- Posted June 27, 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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Sony KP-65XBR10W 65-inch HDTV Monitor

(Originally published in: Sound & Vision, May 2001)
- By Al Griffin
- Posted June 13, 2001
Sony's XBR series TVs have a devoted following, but some of the sets in the line tend to be priced higher than models with similar features from other set-makers. So if you're an XBR fan who is in the market for an HDTV with a really big screen, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the price of Sony's new 65-inch rear-projection HDTV monitor.

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Test Bench: Sony Bravia VPL-VW60 1080p SXRD Front Projector
- By Al Griffin
- Posted January 1, 1989
Color temperature (Cinema mode, Low color temperature before/Cinema mode, Custom color temperature after calibration): 20 IRE: 7,119 / 5,818 K 30 IRE: 7,329 / 6,353 K 40 IRE: 7,526 / 6,449 K 50 IRE: 7,159 / 6,485 K 60 IRE: 7,067 / 6,634 K 70 IRE: 7,028 / 6,618 K 80 IRE: 6,954 / 6,552 K 90 IRE: 6,874 / 6,554 K 100 IRE: 6,875 / 6,534 K Brightness<

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Test Bench: JVC LT-47X898 47-inch LCD HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted December 4, 1988
Color temperature (Theater Mode/Low Color Temperature before/after calibration): 20 IRE: 6,797 / 6,720 K 30 IRE: 6,632 / 6,584 K 40 IRE: 6,596 / 6,596 K 50 IRE: 6,678 / 6,599 K 60 IRE: 6,654 / 6,561 K 70 IRE: 6,564 / 6,422 K 80 IRE: 6,483 / 6,483 K 90 IRE: 6,397 / 6,648 K 100 IRE: 6,579 / 6,423 K Brightness (100-IRE window): 40 / 41 ftL

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Test Bench: Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR5 52-inch LCD HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted December 3, 1988
Color temperature (Custom/Warm 2 Color Temperature before/after calibration): 20 IRE: NA / NA 30 IRE: 6,613 / 6,780 K 40 IRE: 6,562 / 6,535 K 50 IRE: 6,565 / 6,478 K 60 IRE: 6,571 / 6,579 K 70 IRE: 6,472 / 6,562 K 80 IRE: 6,751 / 6,594 K 90 IRE: 6,523 / 6,757 K 100 IRE: 6,481 / 6,556 K Brightness (100-IRE window): 38.1 / 35.0 ftL

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Test Bench: Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD 50-inch Plasma HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted November 4, 1988
Color temperature (User Mode/Low Color Temperature): 20 IRE: 6,109 K 30 IRE: 6,446 K 40 IRE: 6,418 K 50 IRE: 6,425K 60 IRE: 6,455 K 70 IRE: 6,463 K 80 IRE: 6,429 K 90 IRE: 6,445 K 100 IRE: 6,441K Brightness (100-IRE window): 31 ftL

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