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Top 10 Questions About HD DVD and Blu-ray
James K. Willcox  |  May 06, 2006
1. I'm happy with DVD. Why should I care about high-definition discs?

While both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc offer a number of improvements over DVD, the most obvious one is picture quality. DVD was a huge leap in both convenience and performance over VHS, but its 480i resolution is well below the 720p, 1080i, and 1080p images both high-def disc formats can produce.

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30 Minutes with Elliot Easton of the New Cars
Mike Mettler  |  May 06, 2006

How's this for a mashup: Former Utopians Todd Rundgren (second from right in photo) and Kasim Sulton (right), together with ex-Tubes drummer Prairie Prince (left), join guitarist Elliot Easton (second from left) and keyboardist Greg Hawkes to form the New Cars.

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MPEG-2 vs. MPEG-4?
David Ranada  |  May 06, 2006
No matter who ends up "winning," the Blu-Ray and HD DVD format war has probably entered its most dangerous period. For right when new formats are launched, you'll find advocates of one system or another putting forth unsubstantiated claims and various forms of quasi- and pseudo-science to back their side.
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HD DVD and Blu-Ray First Releases
 |  May 06, 2006
These listings were accurate as we went to press, but both release dates and titles could change.

1st HD DVD releases

APRIL 18 The Last Samurai (Warner) Million Dollar Baby (Warner) The Phantom of the Opera (Warner)

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Audio Video News
Next-Gen Disc Release Calendar
 |  May 06, 2006

The studios have released dates for dozens of films coming to you in either Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

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Barn Burner
 |  May 05, 2006

When installer Jack Schroeder bought 52 acres of land in southeastern Wisconsin a few years ago, the previous owner had one request. Having spent 45 years planting and maintaining the thousands of trees on the property, building rocks walls, and creating miles of trails, essentially turning it into a vast park, he asked Jack to keep the land intact and development-fee.

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The Custom Installer: We've Got Answers
John Sciacca  |  May 05, 2006

For the past 8 years, I've been installing home-entertainment systems at Custom Theater and Audio in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, and for the past 5 years, I've been writing about custom installation for Sound & Vision.

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Sharp Aquos LC-65D90U 65-inch LCD HDTV
Philip Ryan  |  May 05, 2006
What We Think
There are cheaper options at its screen size, but Sharp breaks new ground with this biggest-ever LCD TV.
TV reviewers get to gaze at a lot of fantasy products.
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New Products
New Product: Denon AVR-2807 A/V Receiver
Peter Pachal  |  May 05, 2006

With technology changing so fast these days, dropping more than a grand on an A/V receiver like Denon's AVR-2807 ($1,099) seems a risky proposition. But the HDTV powers appear to have pretty much settled on HDMI as the connector of the future, and this guy definitely has that covered.

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New Product: Dell Inspiron el705 Notebook PC
Peter Pachal  |  May 05, 2006

Designed for the media professional on the move, Dell's Inspiron e1705 notebook ($2,165) comes with Windows XP Media Center Edition and has a high-performance Intel Core Duo processor to power it. Games and videos will live large on the 17-inch widescreen display, and the top-notch Nvidia graphics card makes sure quick motion won't give you any visual hiccups. No time to boot up?

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