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May 2005

Features

Object of Desire
Is Sony's 70-inch, $13,000 Qualia 006 the world's best HDTV?

Pump Up Your iPod
The Top 10 ways to get the most from your portable player.

Big-Screen Bargains
There are plenty of HDTVs to choose from in our guide to sets for $3,000 or less. Yep, even plasma.

Inside Tech: Blu-ray & HD DVD
How the two new formats squeeze big high-def pictures onto a DVD-size disc.

Xtremely Simple
Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk strips his home theater down to the essentials.

Back to Basics: DVD Players and Recorders
Hooking up your new player or recorder can be easy if you follow these simple steps.

Test Reports

Spotlight: Plasma Panorama
Four 42-inch plasma HDTVs show there's a flat-panel set for just about every budget.

Yamaha
YSP-1 digital sound projector

Denon
AVR-5805 multiroom A/V receiver

Humax DRT800 DVD/TiVo recorder

Canton Exclusive!
LE 100 Series home theater speaker system

ReQuest
VideoReQuest digital video controller

The Cutting Edge
One channel serves all: Akimbo player and broadband movie-download service

Quick Take
Kenwood RFU-6100 wireless speaker adapter

Entertainment

Movies
Ray, Hotel Rwanda, Easter Parade, The Band Wagon, Deadwood, Gangsters Collection, more

Games
Star Wars goes Commando, plus sports aplenty: MVP Baseball, Gran Turismo, more

Music
Beck, 50 Cent and The Game, The Mars Volta, Roky and Syd, R.E.M. in surround, more

Departments & Columns

Track One Bob Ankosko
A note from the editor

Random Play
Sirius ups the satellite-radio ante, get Lost in high-def, 15 minutes with Aerosmith's Joe Perry

The Custom Installer John Sciacca
Getting It Loud and Clear

Feedback
Readers sound off

New Products
The latest home-entertainment gear

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

Tech Talk David Ranada
Progressive movement

BackTalk with John Madden
John Madden tells us what's wrong with TV football and what he does for fun in the Madden Cruiser.

 

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