LATEST ADDITIONS

New Product: Elan Olè Film Interactive Touchpad

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

PADDED UP You've got a souped-up multiroom system - don't settle for a low-tech keypad. Elan's Olè suspends a touch-sensitive button membrane above a backlit slide graphic to give the illusion of a touchpad without the crazy expense of one.

New Products

New Product: Samsung HL-S4676S 46-inch Slim DLP HDTV

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

MORE SCREEN, LESS SET Got space issues with your TV? Before you go running to a flat-panel, have a look at this DLP from Samsung that's just barely over 10 inches deep. That's thin enough to put on your bedroom dresser, and the ultrathin bezel will ensure you see nothing but the 1,280 x 720-pixel (720p) screen.

New Products

New Product: SVS SBS-01 Home Theater Speaker System

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

GOING DOWN Are you tired of budget home theater speaker systems with dinky "subwoofers" that aren't even worthy of the name? Cast your eyes on the PB10-NSD sub that comes with SVS's SBS-01 system - a 10-inch driver and a 300-watt amp fill out its nearly 2-foot-deep chassis. Ready to go boom?

New Products

New Product: Canon HV10 High-Definition Camcorder

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

CLEAR SHOT You'll be able to capture detail that most other camcorders never see when you shoot footage with Canon's HV10. Everything is recorded in the 1080i high-def format thanks to a 1,920 x 1,080-pixel CMOS image sensor, said to be quicker on the draw and more power-efficient than typical CCD sensors. It probably gets more dates, too.

New Products

New Product: Elite HTS Customizable Home Theater Seating

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

FIRST-CLASS SEAT Leather seats, power reclining, 5-inch-thick cushions - the home theater seats custom-made by Elite HTS bestow luxury viewing on the serious enthusiast. Details like scratch-resistant cup holders and a "wall-hugging" reclining mechanism that needs just 4 inches of clearance behind make all the difference.

New Products

New Product: Logitech Wireless DJ Music System

Peter Pachal | Oct 04, 2006

FREE MUSIC Slim, easy, and sexy - Logitech's Wireless DJ scores a trifecta in modern gadget design. Plug the transmitter into your PC's USB port and the Bluetooth receiver into any music system on which you want to listen to your downloaded tunes, even if it's a few rooms away.

Anthem AVM 50 Preamp/Processor and MCA 50 Amplifier

Al Griffin | Oct 04, 2006

Anthem's AVM-series home theater audio preamp/processors are considered among the best - if not the best - for the money. An enthusiastic review in these pages back in November 2004 made much of the AVM 30's THX Ultra2 certification, multichannel analog input with full bass management, and extensive list of surround modes.

Other Tech

Installations: Mile-High Fidelity

James K. Willcox | Oct 04, 2006

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Sim2 HT3000 1080p DLP Front Projector

Al Griffin | Oct 04, 2006

Video front projectors have always been the best way to watch movies at home, and now that new 1080p models capable of unveiling all the detail in high-def sources have arrived, there's even more reason to get keyed up about the category.

Tower Speaker Reviews

Vienna Acoustics Schönberg Speaker System

Daniel Kumin | Oct 04, 2006

And now," said Dr. Freud, "we will do a little free association, ja? If I say Vienna, do you say ... sausage? Waltz? Sacher torte?"

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