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Media Servers
Al Griffin  |  Jun 18, 2004
Organizing a CD or DVD collection used to mean alphabetizing a huge pile of discs and painstakingly filing them away on shelves. But a new breed of component called a media server - a cross between a traditional A/V component and a full-featured PC - gives you easy, expanded access to your collection by letting you store it as digital data on a hard-disk drive.
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Media Receivers
Michael Antonoff  |  Jun 18, 2004

Media receivers bridge the gap between computer and home theater by letting you store your audio and video files in one room while you select and play them on an entertainment system in another room. The first digital media receivers were limited to streaming music stored on a PC over a wired network to your stereo.

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Control Systems
John Sciacca  |  Jun 18, 2004

Because we want our audio/video gear to entertain us, not drive us insane with frustration, simplicity has always been the hallmark of a well-designed system. A lot of people avoid that frustration by getting all their components from one company.

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Streaming for Your Pleasure
 |  Jun 18, 2004

Whole-house entertainment means never having to handle physical media. With all your music, photos, and videos parked on a hard drive and accessible through your home network, you can enjoy them in any room where a media receiver is attached to a TV or stereo system.

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Let Your Network Entertain You
 |  Jun 17, 2004
Home audio/video-based networks are made up of three basic components. Media servers take in content from the Internet and other sources, store music, video, and photo files, and distribute them to the network. Media receivers are placed in various rooms along the network to accept content from the server or a PC and transmit it to a TV, audio system, and so on.
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Tracking Surround
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2004
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The Connected Home
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 17, 2004

Source of boxed information: all Parks Associates except "Speed Demons," Yankee Group Oddly enough, when I was growing up two of my favorite cartoon shows held diametrically opposite views of technology in our lives. The Flintstones promoted the simple life.

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Audio Video News
Best Buy to Move Gateway Gear
HT Staff  |  Jun 14, 2004
There may be some good deals ahead for value-seeking shoppers at Best Buy stores.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Jun 14, 2004

Thomas J. Norton reviews the <A HREF="/videoprojectors/504sharp">SharpVision XV-Z12000 DLP projector</A>, noting that while the outside is little different from previous models, "The Sharp impressed me right out of the box, and after being calibrated it did little wrong."

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Flat Panels Ramping Up
Barry Willis  |  Jun 14, 2004

When will prices drop to truly affordable levels for flat-panel televisions?

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