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Reviewer's Choice Awards

S&V's annual salute to the best of the best.

By S&v Staff
Posted November 18, 2002

Checking out the Sound & Vision Reviewer's Choice Awards is probably the quickest way there is to get a reading on the state of the home entertainment art. The 1999 awards featured the groundbreaking Rio MP3 player, Philips's first-generation TiVo hard-disk-drive recorder, and the first Super Audio CD player.

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New Products -- December 2002

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment.

By S&v Staff
Posted December 3, 2002

Marantz

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New Products--January 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment.

By S&v Staff
Posted January 14, 2003

Harman Kardon Master of the digital domain-Harman Kardon's DPR 1001 Digital Path Receiver is designed to keep digital signals digital right up to the final output stage. It's rated to deliver 50 watts each to seven channels and can decode Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES soundtracks.

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New Products—February/March 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment.

By S&v Staff
Posted February 24, 2003

JVC No room for one more component in your rack? How about half of one? At 2 1/4 inches thick, JVC's XV-N5SL DVD player won't crowd anyone. It still does everything a chubbier player can do, including deliver progressive-scan images through its component-video output and perform 2:3 pulldown to compensate for frame-rate differences between video and film.

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New Products -- April 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment.

By S&v Staff
Posted March 26, 2003

Go-Video To get all your computer's digital pictures and media clips over to your A/V system you'll need some kind of complicated newfangled interface contraption, right? Nope-all you need is Go-Video's D2730 DVD player, which can connect to your PC either through its PC Card Ethernet adapter or wirelessly with an optional Wi-Fi PC Card.

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New Products -- May 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment.

By S&v Staff
Posted April 22, 2003

Denon The first universal player from Denon, the DVD-2900 will play both DVD-Audio discs and Super Audio CDs, and it has Dolby Digital and DTS decoders, too.

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New Products—June 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment

By S&v Staff
Posted May 20, 2003

Fujitsu It's a whole new look for Fujitsu's Plasmavision. The 42-inch P42VHA20 has a lighter silver finish than previous models and front-panel controls discreetly located in the bottom righthand corner. It's also just 3 inches thick.

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New Products - July/August 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment

By S&v Staff
Posted June 30, 2003

Zenith Want a taste of DVD-Audio? Hey, at this price, why not? Zenith's affordable DVB252 five-disc DVD changer can handle the format, feeding high-res audio to your receiver or preamp through its multichannel analog audio output. And if you're sometimes in the mood for compressed audio, the player also reads MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) files on CD-Rs and CD-RWs.

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How to Speak A/V

A comprehensive glossary of terms and abbreviations you’ll find in ads, articles, and test reports

By S&v Staff
Posted October 14, 2004

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New Products - September 2003

Hot gear from the world of home entertainment

By S&v Staff
Posted August 28, 2003

PanasonicIt's a tough call: do you want a hard-drive video recorder so you can save TV shows without disc clutter, or a DVD recorder so you can keep your recordings forever? Panasonic's DMR-E80H gives you both options in a single package.

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