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June 2004
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Features
Special Issue!
The Connected Home
Welcome to your future. We look at how networking is transforming home entertainment.
Living with Technology
A hilltop Pittsburgh paradise, a traditional Chicago abode, and an IBM lab offer three different visions of the connected home.
Let Your Network Entertain You
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Media Servers
Servers let you access your movies and music anywhere in the house, whenever you want. |
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Media Receivers
Give your PC or Mac's hard drive a direct link to your home theater or music system. |
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Control Systems
The options for controlling your network run from simple to sophisticated. |
Building Your Home Network
They used to be just for computers, but networks are teaching home-entertainment gear how to share, too.
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Test Reports
Spotlight:
Ultimate Home Theater!
High-def DLP projectors from BenQ, Sim2, and Sharp define the cutting edge in big-screenhome theater.
User's Report:
Streaming for Your Pleasure
Your next source component could be your PC. Media receivers from Apex, Netgear, and Pinnacle show three ways to make it happen.
Philips Exclusive!
34-inch HDTV monitor
Pioneer
DVR-810H DVD/hard-disk recorder
NHT Exclusive!
Evolution L5 home theater speaker system
The Cutting Edge
LG LST-3410A
HDTV tuner/hard-disk recorder
User's Report: Gateway
FMC-901X and 610XL Media Center PCs
Quick Take
Sharp Wireless Aquos TV
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Entertainment
Movies
Kill Bill—Vol. 1, Schindler's List, The School of Rock, Master and Commander, more
Music
Velvet Revolver, Kanye West, Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Jonny Greenwood, Diana Krall, more
Games
MVP Baseball 2004, Ninja Gaiden, Resident Evil: Outbreak, Steel Battalion: Line of Contact, more
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Departments
Track One Bob Ankosko
A note from the editor
Random Play
L.A. pipe dreams, the hidden-wire trick, 15 minutes with director Shawn Levy, more
Feedback
Readers sound off
New Products
The latest home-entertainment gear
Q&A Ian G. Masters
Ask the expert
Tech Talk David Ranada
Pushing the envelopment
Digital Horizons Ken C. Pohlmann
Fear factor
The Custom Installer John Sciacca
Look, Ma — no wires
Road Gear Mike Mettler
Sweet things
S&V Picks
Theaters in L.A., Maryland, and Michigan offer three radically different movie-going experiences.
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Check out last month's stories.
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