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Tech Trends 2013: Video
S&V's video experts explain this season's hottest trends in TV
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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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Paradigm Cinema 110 Compact Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted April 13, 2005
The soundtrack from the DVD of last year's King Arthur offers up barbarous sonic attacks and thrilling surround effects. The latest speaker release from Paradigm, the Cinema 110 Compact Theater, delivers some pretty exciting surround effects as well. But could this value-priced system produce truly civilized sound from King Arthur's medieval mayhem?

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Panasonic SA-XR70 extended lab
- Posted April 8, 2005
PDF: Panasonic SA-XR70 extended lab results
Right On! extended lab results
- Posted April 8, 2005
PDF: Extended lab results
GoVideo VR2940 DVD/VHS Recorder
- By David Ranada
- Posted April 6, 2005
Most of the DVD recorders we test nowadays are pretty routine devices. They're great for displacing your aging VCR for time-shifting TV programs or making archival DVDs of precious and fragile camcorder footage.

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Panasonic SA-XR70 Digital Surround Receiver
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted April 6, 2005
A surround sound receiver has a lot in common with a boat anchor. They are both formidably large, usually painted black, and heavy - the heavier, the better.
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Right On!

Plasma-friendly on-wall speaker systems from Atlantic Technology, Klipsch, and Magnepan
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted April 6, 2005
Santa squeezed an awful lot of flat-panel TVs down an awful lot of chimneys last year. (He bends the space-time continuum, that's how.) And as those lucky households recover from holiday bills, thoughts are turning to sleek on-wall speaker systems to finish the job.

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Super-Size HDTV

4 LCD projectors that deliver the big picture
- By Al Griffin
- Posted April 1, 2005
Here's a question to wrap your mind around: What's the best home-entertainment deal going? If you answered, "a Windows Media Center PC," you're way off track. If you thought, "a $49 progressive-scan DVD player," you're closer, but still no cigar. But if you blurted out, "an LCD front projector," you're absolutely right.

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Big-Screen Megabargains

Front projectors you can buy for less than $1,500!
- By Al Griffin
- Posted April 1, 2005
Here's a message if you spend time squinting at a small TV: big screens are better for watching movies and most everything else. And I don't mean those puny 50-inch sets most folks consider "big screen." I'm talking about pictures that make you feel like you're actually in a movie theater - pictures 100 inches or larger!

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Mirage Nanosat Home Theater Speaker System
- By Rich Warren
- Posted March 1, 2005
While the satellite speakers in Mirage's Nanosat system aren't actually made with cutting-edge nanotechnology, they are extremely small by any ordinary standard - less than 6 inches high and just over 4 inches wide and deep.

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Traditional Values

You can get a great picture /and/ save a bundle with a classic three-tube HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted February 25, 2005
Big-screen, rear-projection HDTVs based on traditional CRT (cathode-ray tube) technology are inexpensive enough - and good enough - to warrant consideration by just about every shopper. But they aren't all that sexy.

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Boston Acoustics Plasma Series Home Theater Speakers
- By Daniel Kumin
- Posted February 24, 2005
Until some enterprising soul invents a software-defined virtual speaker, designers of real speakers will keep trying to make them less obtrusive. That's certainly the idea behind Boston Acoustics' P400, star of the company's Plasma Series.

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Hitachi 42HDT51 42-inch Plasma HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted February 16, 2005
With LCD TVs nipping at their heels, plasma sets have quickly abandoned their industrial heritage and evolved to become a user-friendly centerpiece for your home theater. Basically, they've grown bigger - screen sizes will soon hit 70 inches - and accrued tons of cool features.

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