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Roku HD1000
HT Staff  |  Sep 25, 2003
The originator of the ReplayTV is at it again.
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Audio Video News
DWIN TransVision TV3
HT Staff  |  Sep 25, 2003
Dwin continues to push the envelope with its TransVision TV3, the company's third-generation Digital Light Processing (DLP) projector.
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Other Tech
Yamaha MusicCAST Wi-Fi Multiroom Audio System
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Sep 24, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza Take a good look at the Yamaha MusicCAST system: it just might be a glimpse into the future of home audio entertainment. The MCX-1000 server (above), essentially a CD recorder on steroids crossed with a digital music server, provides two main improvements over traditional playback devices.
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Blockbuster + Columbia House?
Barry Willis  |  Sep 22, 2003  |  First Published: Sep 23, 2003

The nation's biggest video rental chain and biggest movie club are reportedly discussing a merger. Blockbuster could join forces with Columbia House as a hedge against falling video rental revenue, according to mid-September reports in <I>The Wall Street Journal</I>, <I>The Hollywood Reporter</I>, and elsewhere.

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Custom Installation How-To
Super Recorders
David Ranada  |  Sep 22, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza You know a recording medium is going in or out of fashion when you can't find any blanks on the store shelves. Such a revelation hit me in the aisle for blank DVDs and CDs at a Best Buy here in New York City. There were shelf labels for all five recordable DVD formats - DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM - but precious few of the discs.
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Canton Karat Series Home Theater Speaker System
Al Griffin  |  Sep 22, 2003

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New Products
New Products - October 2003
SV Staff  |  Sep 22, 2003
Marantz When you've got the Marantz DV8400 DVD player, you can stop worrying about format incompatibility. This THX Select player attains "universal" status by playing DVD-Audio discs and Super Audio CDs and is said to provide full bass management for both formats.
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Audio Video News
Time Warner Cable's Explorer 8000
 |  Sep 22, 2003

Little noted in the hubbub about AOL Time Warner dropping the "AOL" from its corporate moniker is the news that Time Warner Cable has delivered over 150,000 TiVo-like devices to its customers&mdash;without the extra expense.

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Philips Exec: TV Copy Block Won't Work
 |  Sep 22, 2003

Hollywood's efforts to keep its products off the Internet are misguided, according to Philips Consumer Electronics president and CEO Lawrence J. Blanford. Proposals offered to date won't work and will hurt both consumers and electronics manufacturers, Blanford told Congress on September 17.

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Other Tech
Apple PowerBook G4 Laptop Computer
Michael Gaughn  |  Sep 21, 2003
Photo by Tony Cordoza Come with me back to the first days of portable computing, when two now extinct titans named Osborne and Kaypro ruled the land.
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