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Media Server Reviews
VidaBox Magnum Media Center
John Higgins  |  Apr 27, 2008
The one HTPC to rule them all.

A couple of years ago, home theater personal computers were on the cusp of being the next big thing. Everyone wanted to make them to get in on the market, and why not? The ability to put all of your home theater media in one box is incredible. No more getting up to sift through CDs or DVDs only to find that the one movie you want to watch is missing. Instead, you can store movies on a hard drive and access them by remote.

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How We Test
New Measurements and New Test Gear Part II
HT Staff  |  Apr 27, 2008
As you can see in the box below, we have completely revamped our video-measurements box. Gone are the plain, boring, and hard-to-understand Excel-based charts. In their place are shiny, easy-to-understand, colorful graphs. Yep, party like it’s 1994.
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Projector Buying TipsProjector SetupProjector Tech
The Bigger Picture
Adrienne Maxwell  |  Apr 27, 2008
Tips for selecting and installing a front-projection screen.

What’s keeping you from taking the front-projection plunge? Is it a belief that projection systems are still only for the rich and famous, consisting of $15,000 projectors, movie-theater-sized screens, and elaborate masking systems, controlled by advanced touchpanels? The entry-level projector roundup on page 38 of this issue is proof that there’s a 1080p projector to suit almost any budget, and the same is true for theater screens.

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Other Tech
No Dirty Dozen: 13 Spring-Cleaning Tips for Your Home Theater
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 25, 2008

Why does the Vernal equinox always trigger a sudden urge to clean? Who knows? You'd have to read Psychology Today or Discover to find that out. We're not here to lay some heavy scientific anthropological stuff on you. We're here to save your audio/video gear.

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Audio Video News
4 Record Stores in 1 Record Store Day
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
That's what my photographer son Tony and I accomplished last Saturday (April 19) on the first annual Record Store Day. As I announced here previously, RSD is an effort (spearheaded by indie-shop organizations) to remind people that, yes,...
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Audio Video News
Garage Rock
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
Men need a place to be men — a place where we tinker with mechanical stuff, smoke cigars, drink bourbon, and listen to the manly music of our lost youth really frigging loud. Usually we have to go out to the garage if we want to indulge in these...
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Audio Video News
No, They Don't.
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
[IN THE FOLLOWING POST, BLOGGER COREY GREENBERG TAKES HIS FINAL SHOT IN OUR POINT/COUNTERPOINT DEBATE: BLU-RAY - IS IT ALREADY OVER?] Today's New York Times asks the question, "Blu-ray: Do Consumers Care?" but never answers it, which is...
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Audio Video News
Old-School MP3 Player
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
Have you been looking for a way to recapture the glory days of your youth that doesn't involve Botox or having someone cut and paste your face back together? Do you want to return to the days of big hair, glam rock and synthesized sounds that were...
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Audio Video News
Kaleidescape price drop! Cash in your stocks!
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
Few products invoke the raw, carnal "I must have you!" lust like Kaleidescape. They invented the concept of the DVD movie server and then wrapped it in an interface that would get Steve Jobs hot and bothered. Let's face it; their system is awesome....
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Audio Video News
Managed Copy Deemed Unmanageable
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 25, 2008
Managed copy will not be part of the final spec for AACS, the digital rights management used by Blu-ray (and HD DVD, but never mind).
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