Features

S&V Guide to Great Gifts
Must-have home-entertainment treasures for everyone on your list.

All Boxed Up, Ready to Give
Whoa! Ten super DVD and CD sets for The Ones on your holiday list.

2004 Reviewer's Choice Awards
The world's first movie server, a new kind of rear-projection HDTV, three stylish on-wall speaker systems, a satellite service dedicated to HDTV, and 15 more exceptional products.

Satellite Radio: Here, There, Everywhere
XM and Sirius have gone way beyond car stereos — check out the gear that's available for your home and on the go.

Test Reports

RCA Exclusive!
Scenium Profiles 61-inch rear-projection DLP HDTV

Pioneer
DVR-320 and 520H DVD recorders

Hitachi
46-inch rear-projection HDTV monitor

Humax Exclusive!
T2500 TiVo Series2 video hard-disk recorder

Denon
AVR-2805 digital surround receiver

Yamaha Exclusive!
DVD-S1500 universal DVD/SACD player

Infinity Exclusive!
TSS-1100 home theater speaker system

The Cutting Edge
JVC's Everio Microdrive camcorder lets you leave the tape — and the bulk — at home.

Entertainment

Movies
Fahrenheit 9/11, The Day After Tomorrow, Elf, an interview with Martin Scorsese, more

Music
Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Interpol, Brian Wilson's SMiLE, Ray Charles, more

Games
Imperial walkers, mutant mayhem, and flying pucks — plus we pick out gifts that got game.

Departments

Track One Bob Ankosko
A note from the editor

Random Play
300-channel surround?, UPN brings HDTV to Mars, 15 minutes with Alter Bridge, more

Feedback
Readers sound off

New Products
The latest home-entertainment gear

Q&A Ian G. Masters
Your audio/video questions answered

Home Theater David Ranada
Calibration wars

Digital Horizons Ken C. Pohlmann
Double-edged sword

The Custom Installer John Sciacca
CEDIA showstoppers

2004 Editorial Index

S&V Picks
Check out the computer The Donald uses and more in our Guide to Exotic Gifts.