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Creating the Video Future
Josef Krebs  |  Nov 03, 2004  |  1 comments

Photo illustration by Eric Yang Lowry photo by John Skalicky When George Lucas needed someone to restore the first three Star Wars films to their original glory for DVD, he turned to digital pioneer John Lowry. And when the James Bond film legacy needed to be rescued from the ravages of time, the studios called on Lowry as the best man for the job.

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Hitachi DZ-MV550A DVD Camcorder
 |  Nov 03, 2004  |  0 comments

After spending some time with Hitachi 's DZ-MV550A, I've seen the future of camcorders. Unlike its competitors, Hitachi isn't known for professional video equipment or photography. But it is known for disk drives, so it carved out an innovative and forward-looking niche for itself by pioneering camcorders that record directly to DVDs.

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HDTV Insider: This Is /Digital/ SportsCenter
Larry Dobrow  |  Nov 01, 2004  |  0 comments

"Welcome to the ESPN diner."

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15 Minutes with Dan Patrick
Larry Dobrow  |  Oct 31, 2004  |  0 comments

A 15-year veteran at ESPN, Dan Patrick has come to be known as the face of SportsCenter, TV's most popular sports show. Now that ESPN has built its Digital Center for HDTV broadcasting and is expanding its high-def schedule beyond NFL and MLB games, we decided to see what Patrick had to say about the state of the broadcasting art.

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The Ultimate Guide to HDTV
SV Staff  |  Oct 31, 2004  |  0 comments
PDF: What's on Free TV Here's what the major broadcast networks have to offer. PDF: What's on Pay TV Blockbuster movies, mega sports events, and premium-channel series are just the tip of the high-def
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The Case of the Invisible Speakers
James K. Willcox  |  Oct 28, 2004  |  0 comments
For years, in-wall and in-ceiling speakers were the 98-pound weaklings of the speaker world. Lacking the muscle needed for realistic-sounding music playback - let alone action-movie soundtracks - they were ignored by anyone who took sound seriously.

But the once-ridiculed category has re-emerged, surprisingly pumped and ready to kick sand in the face of that conventional wisdom.

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Going the Distance
 |  Oct 26, 2004  |  0 comments
What do you do when you live in the middle of nowhere but want your home to have all the latest entertainment technology? That was the predicament facing Curtis Jameson as he started building his 1,400-square-foot home in undeniably scenic - but also undeniably far-flung - Nelson, British Columbia.
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Extreme Digital Makeover
Eric Taub  |  Oct 22, 2004  |  0 comments

At just 48 years of age, Drew Snodgrass had already become a digital dinosaur. While many of his contemporaries were in Circuit City drooling over 60-inch flat-panel HDTVs and the latest laptops, Drew and his wife, Chris Monty, curled up in front of a trusty 27-inch Sony wedged into a corner of the family room, a mass of wires running to a VCR and DVD player.

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HDTV: Full Throttle
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 18, 2004  |  0 comments

ANNOUNCER Tonight on American Chopper , a journalist explains HDTV to the Teutels in plain language.

CUT TO author MIKE METTLER in the Orange County Choppers office, flanked by PAUL TEUTEL SR. and PAUL TEUTEL JR.

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The Lucas Interview
 |  Oct 18, 2004  |  0 comments

I love George Lucas. There, I said it. Even though I have to give him a lot of awards these days, it's not so bad 'cause I get to make fun of him in a way that he seems to like.

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Wild Card
Gary Merson  |  Oct 15, 2004  |  0 comments
Before premium cable channels like HBO began appearing 30 years ago, you were more likely to have a bowl of waxed fruit atop your TV than a black box that changed channels.
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HP Media Center PC with Personal Media Drive
Michael Antonoff  |  Oct 13, 2004  |  0 comments

Media Center PCs are designed to replace a stack of A/V components, letting you watch live or recorded TV shows, play or burn DVDs, download movies and music, and play home videos and photo slideshows. Available in various hardware configurations from several computer manufacturers, these remote-controllable systems share the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 operating system.

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Zvox Model 315 Sound Console
Rich Warren  |  Oct 13, 2004  |  0 comments

What can you get from a single box not much larger than a DVD player with three small drivers firing forward and a woofer port firing rearward? If the box is the Zvox 315 Sound Console, you get more sound than you might think - full, wide stereo and a surprising amount of surround sound.

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Working the Room
B Y Doug Newcomb  |  Oct 05, 2004  |  0 comments
You've got your big-screen HDTV, super-sharp progressive-scan DVD player, and the rest of your A/V gear set up to squeeze the nth degree of performance from your system. But look around. Is something missing? Not from your equipment but the room itself.
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The /Empire Strikes Back/ director: Irvin Kershner
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 30, 2004  |  0 comments

[This is an extended version of the interview that appeared in the October 2004 Sound & Vision to accompany Carrie Fisher's exclusive interview with George Lucas.]

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