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New Products for June
 |  Jun 03, 2006

•Outside-The-Home Theater •Atlantic Technology 10 CSB Corner Subwoofer •Cableyoyo Pop Headphone Spool •URC Medius TX-1000 Universal Remote Control •

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Fred & Shane On The Job
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006

UAV's Fred Manteghian and Shane Buettner hard at work searching for video far and wide.

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Tom's Chariot
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2006

Our esteemed editor Thomas Norton has the right plate for the job.

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Don't Tweak It If It Ain't Broke
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

Another ask-the-editors session, this one about improving your home theater, was full of sage advice and even a few pretty good one-liners. We made it through almost 40 minutes of give and take until someone asked us which high definition disc format was better, Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Bottom line, we're not sure. The only thing about which we all agree, however, is that this format war stinks for everybody.

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Does Michael Know You're Here?
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

Fans of "The Office" would recognize Melora Hardin in a heartbeat as Jan, Michael's boss. "Monk" fans think of her as Trudy #2. And if you're addicted to "Gilmore Girls," the just completed season had Melora playing what we all hope will be a regular role on the series. Bet you didn't know she was an amazing singer though, did you?

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Thiel 3.7 Sighting- And Listening!
Shane Buettner  |  Jun 03, 2006

Thiel's eagerly anticipated CS3.7 was on display and playing music, with the help of Audio Research tube gear and power by Richard Gray's Power Company.

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RCA Misses Flight, Announces HD-DVD Player in Minneapolis
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 03, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS June 2, 2006 – For $499, the new RCA HDV5000 HD DVD player is shipping to retailers. The player outputs HD-DVD in either 720p or 1080i output via HDMI and upconverts standard DVDs to either 720p or 1080i via its HDMI interface as well. Audio features include built-in multichannel decoders for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD (2 channel), DTS and DTS-HD (5.1 channel) through either the HDMI interact or a S/PDIF output.

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Blu-Friday, Part Deux
Shane Buettner  |  Jun 03, 2006

Although everything was blue at the Blu-ray introduction, including the martinis,no one was feeling blue when we were invited into a large theater and shown comparisons of standard definition video vs. high-definition on one of Sony's 4K SXRD digital cinema projectors.

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Blu-ray Disc Is Here!
Shane Buettner  |  Jun 03, 2006

Not only does the sign say so, I'm holding a full production copy of <I>Hitch</I> on Blu-ray Disc right now! OK, it's actually sitting next to my laptop since I can't type and hold it at the same time.

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The Outlaws Ride Again
Tom Norton  |  Jun 03, 2006

With a rack of their familiar gear driving top-of-the-line Atlantic Technologies speakers plus <I>four</I> Outlaw subwoofers, those scoundrels were stealing another show with the best home theater demo at HE 2006. And even if there had been more than three serious home theater demos at the show, they probably still be laughing all the way away from the bank.

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