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A Home Theater Humdinger
Montgomery Ingham  |  Sep 01, 2003
Baseball slugger Mark McGwire's home theater has a backbone of performance, reliability, and ease of use.

Few Americans can forget the images of September 8, 1998, when St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire slammed the magic number 62 homer that made him Major League Baseball's single-season home-run record breaker. Now retired from baseball, McGwire spends his well-earned time off with his family, golfing, and of course enjoying his wholehouse entertainment system. In 1997, McGwire teamed up with home entertainment integrator Sean S. Fields, president of Audio/Video Entertainment, and they've been on a winning streak ever since.

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Audio Video News
Fall Football in Dolby Digital 5.1
HT Staff  |  Aug 28, 2003
Televised gridiron realism will move up a level this season. More college and professional football games will be broadcast in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, according to an August 28 announcement from San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories.
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New Products
New Products - September 2003
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 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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Other Tech
Plasma Partners
Peter Pachal  |  Aug 27, 2003

Photo by Tony Cordoza In the future, people won't have to worry about speakers for their TVs. At least that's the message from most Hollywood filmmakers, who invariably depict future TVs as super-sharp wall-size screens with audio that comes out of thin air.

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Audio Video News
Samsung DVD-RAM Recorder
HT Staff  |  Aug 27, 2003
DVD-RAM recorders are among the wave of new products that promise to revolutionize the way consumers interact with video content.
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Audio Video News
TiVo's Record Quarter
 |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

<A HREF=http://www.tivo.com>TiVo</A> may be this year's hot ticket.

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Audio Video News
Video-on-Demand on the Rise
Barry Willis  |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

Video-on-Demand (VOD), long one of the cable industry's holy grails, is increasingly becoming a reality.

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Audio Video News
High Flier: Runco's CW-42i
Barry Willis  |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

One of the electronics industry's dirty little secrets is that plasma display panels (PDPs) can exhibit all kinds of problems at higher altitudes. Home theater fans in places like Vail, CO (altitude 8500') have been plagued by buzzing noises and other strange behaviors when trying to enjoy films or television programs on PDPs.

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6 Easy Pieces
Al Griffin  |  Aug 24, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza You've got to give credit to the guy who invented the six-pack. What a concept: six bottles, all strapped together in a bundle that can be easily toted from your local 7-11 to your fridge. Although not as portable as a bunch of brewskis, many home theater speaker systems adhere to a similar model.
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Audio Video News
Software Reviews
HT Staff  |  Aug 22, 2003
DVD: Animal House: The Double Secret Probation Edition—Universal
Video: 3
Audio: 3
Extras: 4
National Lampoon's Animal House may be a comedy classic that you can watch again and again, but does that also mean you have to buy it again and again? The new Double Secret Probation Edition is the third version of Animal House to hit DVD shelves, and even the gullible girls at Emily Dickinson College wouldn't fall for this scam, would they? There's no denying the greatness of the film itself, but most fans would likely already own the Collector's Edition released in 1998. Is this new version really worth buying Animal House for a second or even a third time? Surprisingly, it is.
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