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HE2005 Concerts Announced
HT Staff  |  Apr 11, 2005
The Home Entertainment Show, scheduled to take place in NYC April 28–May 1, is only weeks away! Throughout the Show, ticket holders can experience the finest consumer electronics and convergence products on the planet—PLUS enjoy a variety of live music performances by popular jazz, folk, rap, blues, and classical music recording artists.
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Audio Video News
HE2005 Concerts Announced
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2005

The <A HREF="http://www.he2005.com">Home Entertainment Show</A>, scheduled to take place in NYC April 28&ndash;May 1, is almost upon us! Throughout the Show, ticket holders can experience the finest consumer electronics and convergence products on the planet&mdash;PLUS enjoy a variety of live music performances by popular jazz, folk, rap, blues, and classical music recording artists.

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Joel Brinkley Blog
Defining Visions: Who's Selling Out?
Joel Brinkley  |  Apr 11, 2005
My office made a small change last month. For all the 70 people who spend much of their days working at their computers, the company decided it was time to "upgrade" our monitors to flat-screen LCDs. Like most of corporate America, we had been using CRT computer monitors for decades. But somewhere in the bowels of the company's system-support offices, somebody got the idea that LCDs were easier on the eyes than CRTs. Or so they said.
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HDTV Tech
Outside the Box
Peter Putman  |  Apr 10, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 11, 2005
Integrated digital cable-ready TV sets are here. How well do they work?
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Pioneer Elite PRO-1120HD Plasma Display System
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 10, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 11, 2005

By itself, the Pioneer Elite PRO-505PU, the company's premier plasma display, is just a video monitor with a DVI input. But it's only sold in a package with the Pioneer Elite PRO-R05U Media Receiver. When linked together by two cables (one of them a DVI video connection, the other to send control signals to and from the panel), the two pieces form an integrated system, designated the Elite PRO-1120HD Plasma Display System.

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AV Receiver Reviews
Lexicon RV-8 A/V Receiver
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 10, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 11, 2005

That last cell phone you bought&mdash;the one with the nearly telephone book-sized instruction manual&mdash;did you take the time to read through the tome completely, learning every function and programming feature before using it to actually make phone calls? Products are becoming so over-engineered and laden with features and functions, most of us merely skim the surface of the ones we buy, often remaining content with just getting the thing to actually function as intended.

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Audio Video News
A Titanic Announcement
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 10, 2005

It's no secret that the original DVD release of <I>Titanic</I>&mdash;about a zillion years ago in DVD time&mdash;was a technical dud. Oh, it looked okay, and the excitement of actually being able to put it on your very own shelf to watch whenever you wanted kept the disappointment to a low simmer. But it was released during the period when studios were just beginning to adopt the anamorphic or "enhanced for widescreen" format. Unfortunately, <I>Titanic</I> was not a beneficiary of that superior technology. As ordinary letterbox transfers go, it was among the better ones. But it wasn't what it should have been.

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The Custom Installer: Got Picture, No Sound?
John Sciacca  |  Apr 09, 2005

My friend Jon is a wiz with pretty much anything mechanical, and he has a Rain Man-like gift for motors. Whether it's a pool pump, a lawn tractor, or a car, Jon is the man to call. What amazes me is that he can often diagnose my motor problems over the phone with only the most basic description.

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Other Tech
BackTalk: Billy Bob Thornton
 |  Apr 07, 2005

How do you like to watch movies?I tend to watch them at home, but frankly, I don't watch many. I hardly go to the theater because it's kind of a pain in the ass, and many movies are overrated. When I do go, I take my children. You see, I love making movies. I'm just not crazy about watching them. I like music better.

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Panasonic SA-XR70 extended lab
 |  Apr 07, 2005
PDF: Panasonic SA-XR70 extended lab results

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