Features

CES Showstoppers
S&V 's comprehensive coverage of the world's largest electronics show reveals that really big screens, really small video players, and wire-free gear are all in your home-entertainment future.

Special: Bring the Theater Home

Get the Big Picture
Ten reasons why a front projector could be right for you.

Right On!
Plasma-friendly on-wall speaker systems from Atlantic Technology, Klipsch, and Magnepan.

Northern Sights . . . and Sounds
A Canadian reader finishes installing his system — with a little help from an S&V friend.

Blue Men Exposed!
The popular pranksters remove their masks to make an impassioned plea for music in surround.

Test Reports

Special: Bring the Theater Home

Spotlight: Super-Size HDTV
LCD front projectors from Epson, Hitachi, Panasonic, and Sony deliver the big picture.

Spotlight: Big-Screen Megabargains
Front projectors you can buy for less than $1,500!

Epson
Livingstation 57-inch rear-projection LCD HDTV with built-in photo printer

Paradigm Exclusive!
Cinema 110 Compact Theater speaker system

GoVideo
VR2940 DVD/VHS recorder

Panasonic Exclusive!
SA-XR70 digital surround receiver with HDMI

Sony
DVP-NS975V DVD/SACD player

Quick Take
A Linksys receiver, an iRiver portable player, and an Xbox accessory all let you tap into your Media Center PC.

Entertainment

Movies
The Incredibles, Collateral, Garden State, Shaun of the Dead , Sky Captain, more

Games
Get your freak on with Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath and Resident Evil 4, more

Music
Queens of the Stone Age, Kings of Leon, Bright Eyes, Peter Gabriel vs. Phil Collins, more

Departments & Columns

Track One Bob Ankosko
A note from the editor

Random Play
The real scoop from CES, Voom go boom?, 15 minutes with Walter Becker, more

Feedback
Readers sound off

New Products
The latest home-entertainment gear

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

Home Theater David Ranada
Peace entreaties in the Blu-ray/HD DVD war

The Custom Installer John Sciacca
Got picture, no sound?

Digital Horizons Ken C. Pohlmann
Ignorance is bliss

The Connected House Eric Taub
CES: The new World's Fair

BackTalk
Actor/musician Billy Bob Thornton on sound over vision and a Southern singer with bite