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New Products - September 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted September 9, 2004
Onkyo If you want to hear the back surround channel in 6.1-channel movie soundtracks, but don't want to shell out a lot of coin, Onkyo's TX-SR502 receiver will get the job done for a song.

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New Products - July/August 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted July 7, 2004
RCA Still playing your CDs and your DVDs on two separate machines? The RCA DRC510N changer is here to simplify things for a price that's a no-brainer. Shuffling between five discs, the changer can play CDs loaded with MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), or mp3PRO files as well as all recordable DVD formats except DVD-RAM.
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New Products—June 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted June 1, 2004
SamsungHere we go folks - both your video playback and recording needs are handled by Samsung's DVD-VR300 combo DVD/VHS recorder. Each side can record from an external source or from a disc or tape loaded in the other side (though neither will let you dub copy-protected movies).

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New Products—May 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted May 6, 2004
BenQ Think of it as a portable CD player with benefits: BenQ's Joybee610 will not only play your tunes on the go (including MP3s on CD), but it also plays DVDs and can read CD-ROMs with JPEGs. For anything visual, however, you'll need to hook up the Joybee to an external monitor through its composite-, component-, or S-video output.

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New Products—April 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted April 30, 2004
Toshiba When it comes to recording TV shows, Toshiba's RD-XS32 gives you plenty of options: you can store them on the 80-gigabyte (GB) hard disk for a short stay, give them a permanent home on a write-once DVD-R, or burn them onto an erasable DVD-RW or DVD-RAM disc.

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New Products — February/March 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted February 24, 2004
IntegraWith Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES decoding and seven 110-watt amplifier channels, Integra's THX Select-certified DTR-8.4 receiver has all you need to power and control a full 6.1-channel home theater system with two back surround speakers. Plus it converts all composite- and S-video signals to component video for easy switching between sources. Still not satisfied?
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New Products—January 2004

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted January 14, 2004
Teac Mixing modern style with classic technology, the Teac SR-L50 table radio was made to stand out. The striking minisystem combines an AM/FM radio, CD player, and stereo speakers in one sleek package measuring 15 1/2 x 8 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches.

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New Products — December 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted December 10, 2003
Samsung Joining forces, Samsung, DirecTV, and TiVo have created the SIR-S4120R video hard-disk recorder. Not only does it have a supersized 120-gigabyte (GB) hard drive that can hold up to 100 hours of shows but also dual DirecTV satellite tuners so you can record two shows at once or watch one while recording another.
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New Products — November 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted November 3, 2003
Gateway Your plasma-TV dreams have a little room to grow now that Gateway's 50-inch GTW-P50M203 flat-panel HDTV monitor is on the scene. Not only can the 1,366 x 768-pixel screen bring you true high-def images, but the widescreen set is only $7,000.
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New Products - October 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted September 23, 2003
Marantz When you've got the Marantz DV8400 DVD player, you can stop worrying about format incompatibility. This THX Select player attains "universal" status by playing DVD-Audio discs and Super Audio CDs and is said to provide full bass management for both formats.
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New Products - September 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment
- By S&v Staff
- Posted August 28, 2003
PanasonicIt's a tough call: do you want a hard-drive video recorder so you can save TV shows without disc clutter, or a DVD recorder so you can keep your recordings forever? Panasonic's DMR-E80H gives you both options in a single package.
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Mobile Surround Sound

Is your car the best place to listen to multichannel music?
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted August 11, 2003
Back to Surround, Part 1 Back to Surround, Part 2

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