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Tech Trends 2013: Video
S&V's video experts explain this season's hottest trends in TV
Tech Trends 2013: Audio
S&V's speaker measurement guy reports on this spring's hottest trends in speakers, headphones, turntables, and more.
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Sony's new 2013 home audio products
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What's New

Panasonic PT-AE500U LCD HDTV Projector
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted April 23, 2004
While everyone's talking about flat-panel LCD and plasma televisions, a less-ballyhooed trend is making hay with savvy technophiles, bargain hunters, and do-it-yourself handymen. This quiet revolution is called affordable front-projection home theater.

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Hitachi DV-RX5000U DVD Recorder
- By David Ranada
- Posted April 15, 2004
The sense of déjà vu was overwhelming when I started working with Hitachi's DV-RX5000U - and not only because its DVD-RAM capabilities let me play a recording while it was still being made!

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Onkyo TX-NR901 Digital Surround Receiver
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted April 5, 2004
It's a Web, Web, Web, Web world out there, so it's no surprise Onkyo's latest A/V receiver, the TX-NR901, joins that company's family of Net-Tune products, which currently include another surround sound receiver and a compact desktop "client" stereo receiver.

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Marantz DV6400 Universal DVD/SACD player
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted April 3, 2004
A year or so ago, a new "universal" DVD player - one that could handle both DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD multichannel music recordings as well as conventional DVDs and CDs - priced at anything less than a thousand bucks might have been big news. Today, a growing number of universal players are finding their way onto dealers' shelves.

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Radio Special: 3 Table Radios and Antex SRX-3 Triple Sirius satellite receiver
- Posted April 1, 2004
Radio's Back on the Table Spiffy table radios from Boston Acoustics, Cambridge SoundWorks, and Teac Triple Your Radio Pleasure Antex SRX-3 Triple Play Sirius satellite receiver
You're Surrounded!

Three midprice speaker systems that will envelop you with sound
- By Al Griffin
- Posted April 1, 2004
The piercing sounds of the action/splatterfest Freddy vs.
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Paradigm Reference Studio 40 v.3 Home Theater Speaker System
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted March 9, 2004
Many of the new speaker designs I've seen recently look more like a wing, an orb, or an obelisk than a speaker, so it was reassuring to unpack this latest system from Paradigm Reference, the high-end division of Paradigm. The Studio 40 v.3 front left/right speakers are solidly conventional, quadrilateral boxes.

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Harman Kardon AVR 330 Digital Surround Receiver
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted March 3, 2004
Photos by Tony Cordoza The model numbers for Harman Kardon's latest line of A/V receivers recall those the company used for receivers it introduced some 20 years ago, and I'm betting that's no accident. Back then, HK scored a solid hit with a compact, simple, affordable stereo receiver called the 330C that was modestly powered but provided consistently good sound.

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Test Bench: Onkyo TX-NR901 Digital Surround Receiver
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted March 2, 2004
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Toshiba D-R1 DVD Recorder
- By David Ranada
- Posted February 17, 2004
Equipment photos by Tony Cordoza

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HDTV Bargains

Three widescreen sets that give you high-definition images without high prices
- By Al Griffin
- Posted February 11, 2004
Equipment photos by Tony Cordoza Once upon a time, HDTVs were really, really expensive.
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Plasma Paradise

Take a walk on the exotic side with three flat-screen TVs
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted January 27, 2004
Photos by Tony Cordoza To break an awkward silence at a business dinner a while back, somebody went around the table with the question, "What's the one thing you'd want if you were stranded on a desert island?" When my turn came, I replied, "A plasma TV." Everybody was incredulous, but I had my reasons.
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