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New Products
New Products—February/March 2003
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2003
JVC No room for one more component in your rack? How about half of one? At 2 1/4 inches thick, JVC's XV-N5SL DVD player won't crowd anyone. It still does everything a chubbier player can do, including deliver progressive-scan images through its component-video output and perform 2:3 pulldown to compensate for frame-rate differences between video and film.
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AV Receiver Reviews
Sunfire Ultimate Digital Surround Receiver
Daniel Kumin  |  Feb 23, 2003
Photos by Tony Cordoza Naming your company's very first A/V receiver "Ultimate" is a pretty bold move, but Sunfire founder Bob Carver has never been the shy and retiring type.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Making the Cut
Michael Antonoff  |  Feb 23, 2003
To address concerns over violence, sex, and profanity in popular films, a number of companies have emerged that create "sanitized" versions of VHS tapes or DVDs for a fee.
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Tracking Surround
Ken Richardson  |  Feb 23, 2003

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Audio Video News
Added to the Archives This Week
 |  Feb 23, 2003

From the January issue, Peter Putman lights up the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showarchives.cgi?92">Epson America PowerLite TW100 LCD front projector</A> to see if real home theater projectors exist at under five grand. As Putman notes, "Epson's entrance into the home-theater projector arena has long been anticipated."

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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Wins Antitrust Case
Barry Willis  |  Feb 23, 2003

Blockbuster, Inc. has won again, in something of a replay of last July's <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1330">dismissal</A> of an antitrust suit brought against the company in San Antonio, TX.

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Audio Video News
Philips's $500 DVD+RW Recorder
Barry Willis  |  Feb 23, 2003

<A HREF="http://www.philips.com">Philips Electronics</A> has often tested the market for new products by introducing them under its Magnavox brand. In late February, the Dutch industrial giant announced that it would follow that tradition with the release of a $499 DVD+RW recorder wearing the Magnavox badge.

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The S&V Interview
Space Invader: MIIB's Barry Sonnenfeld
Dan Yakir  |  Feb 22, 2003
When he agreed to direct a sequel to his megahit Men In Black, Barry Sonnenfeld was determined not to repeat himself. "We had to bring back Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, because so much of what made that first movie work was the relationship between them," he explains. "They're like Abbott and Costello. You can't have one without the other . . . there's a karmic thing between these two. The audience likes to see them bicker. The first movie takes place over three days and MIIB over two, so they only know each other for five days—but it looks like they've been together for 30 years!"
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Men In Black II
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 22, 2003

<I>Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shaloub, Patrick Warburton, Jack Kehler, Rip Torn. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1. Dolby Digital 5.1 (English, French). Two discs. 88 minutes. 2002. Columbia TriStar Home Video 39940. PG-13. $28.96.</I>

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Marantz DV-8300 SACD & DVD-Video/Audio player
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 22, 2003

The first thing I noticed about the new Marantz DV-8300 DVD player was its weight. You won't confuse the 24-pound Marantz with a Krell power amp, but with so many DVD players today weighing less than the boxes they came in, the DV-8300's comfortable heft, metal front panel, and smooth mechanical operation suggest quality.

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