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LCD TV Reviews
Samsung LN-T5281F LCD 1080p HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Dec 03, 2007

Big things are happening with LCD flat panel televisions. New developments like LCD motion lag compensation and LED backlighting, manufacturers are attacking some of the well-known shortcomings of that technology.

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Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR5 52-inch LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Dec 02, 2007
Sony's new XBR5 27242717398 Sony 52XBR5 A big surprise of the past year has been seeing how well the latest crop of LCD flat-panel TVs has held up against the plasma competition.
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The Custom Installer: *Not Included
John Sciacca  |  Dec 02, 2007

Giving consumer electronics as gifts used to be easy. You picked out what you wanted, wrapped it up, and were off the hook for another year. If you took the time to look at the package, you might have noticed the micro-sized print advising "*Batteries Not Included" and decided whether or not to toss in a pack of AAs for good measure.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Scanning High-Def: Spider-Man, The High-Definition Trilogy on Blu-ray
Josef Krebs  |  Dec 02, 2007
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Playing the first movie in this Blu-ray trilogy, my Spidey senses imme­diately begin to tingle.

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JVC LT-47X898 47-inch LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Dec 02, 2007
JVC LT-47X898 47-inch LCD HDTV 46838030581 JVC 47X898 JVC is perhaps best known in the TV world for LCoS-based projectors, but the company also has some impressive flat-panel LCDs.
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Other Tech
Doing Widescreen Right
Sean Greer  |  Dec 02, 2007

The latest home theater trend is 2.35:1 constant-height display systems (provided, of course, that you ignore 1080p, 250,000:1 contrast ratios, HDMI 1.3a, Deep Color, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby TrueHD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, multi-terabyte media servers, and PS3).

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Other Tech
Step by Step: How to use SpyderTV Pro to calibrate an HDTV
Rob Sabin  |  Dec 02, 2007

It's no secret to regular readers that watching an HDTV on its default factory settings is like buying a high-performance car and never taking it out on the highway to let 'er rip.

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Other Tech
Inner Workings: Inside an LED-based Light Engine
James K. Willcox  |  Dec 02, 2007

Lost in the rush of attention being lavished on sleeker and sexier flat-panel HDTVs is the fact that there's still a lot of innovation going on in rear-projection microdisplay sets. In the past year, we've seen developments ranging from the prosaic - bigger screens, more models with 1080p resolution, and slimmed-down cabinets - to the exotic, such as 3-D video.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Knocked Up
Marc Horowitz  |  Dec 02, 2007

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: The War
Rad Bennett  |  Dec 02, 2007

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