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Sony KV-34XBR910 34-inch HDTV Monitor
Al Griffin  |  Sep 15, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza The good old cathode-ray tube (CRT) is up against some stiff competition these days. Leading the charge are sexy flat-panel plasma and LCD TVs that can be mounted on the wall like a picture.

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Other Tech
Shopping Made Simple: HDTV
SV Staff  |  Sep 15, 2003
Illustration by Rick Wessler Confused about HDTV? Well, it can be hard to find somebody who isn't - which is why I recently had a consultation with my esteemed colleague, Dr. Hidef, who isn't the tiniest bit perplexed when it comes to high-definition TV.
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3 Roads to HDTV
David Katzmaier  |  Sep 15, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza

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Other Tech
What's on HDTV
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 15, 2003

The transition to high-definition television really picked up steam this fall as ABC, CBS, NBC, and the WB filled their 2003-04 prime-time schedules with more hours of HDTV programming than ever before. During an entire week, these networks are offering some 70 hours of HDTV.

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Audio Video News
FCC Approves Plug n Play
Gary Merson  |  Sep 12, 2003
On Wednesday, September 10, the Federal Communications Commission approved a package of standards designed to make digital televisions compatible with a wide range of digital and high definition cable television programs. The "plug and play" agreement will allow consumers to connect digital televisions directly into cable systems, without a set-top-box.
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Zenith R49W36 49-inch HDTV Monitor
David Katzmaier  |  Sep 10, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza A newcomer to HDTV has to face so many new abbreviations and technical terms that he could end up feeling like a freshman at MIT. Competing for your hard-earned buck are technologies like LCD, DLP, plasma, LCoS, and CRT - all of which can be found in sets that feature 1080i, 720p, and 480p scanning, ATSC tuners, and DVI with HDCP.

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Custom Installation How-To
Go-Video D2730 Networked DVD Player
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 10, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza Using a standalone DVD player in the connected home seems so inappropriately standoffish. Why live by disc alone? That's the thinking behind the Go-Video D2730, a richly featured DVD player that's also adept at playing music or videos, or displaying photos stored on a Windows-based computer.

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Audio Video News
Vidikron's New Plasma Displays
HT Staff  |  Sep 10, 2003
Vidikron is on the comeback trail.
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Home Theater Systems Reviews
Panasonic SC-ST1 & SC-HT900 HTIB
Kevin Hunt  |  Sep 09, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2003
Panasonic's striking—and strikingly similar—HTIBs.

Another case of separated at birth? If you close your eyes during a movie, it's difficult to distinguish Panasonic's top-of-the-line SC-ST1 from the middle-of-the-pack SC-HT900. Open your eyes, and it doesn't get any easier to tell these two home-theaters-in-a-box apart. Aside from the Penn-and-Teller, tall-versus-small DVD receivers and slightly different center-channel speakers, the two systems are dead ringers.

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Sampo PME-50X6 Plasma HD Monitor
Mike Wood  |  Sep 09, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2003
Plasma gets good.

The only thing that's less likely to impress me than a plasma display from a mass-market manufacturer is a lower-priced plasma display from a mass-market manufacturer. Yet Sampo has done just that. At $6,999, the PME-50X6 isn't necessarily cheap, but it is one of (if not the) lowest-priced HD-capable plasma displays on the market, and its image has many impressive qualities. This price point also puts the plasma in the same market as the high-end rear-projection display. Should you extend your search to include this flat-panel model? Read on to find out.

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