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HE 2004 East Takes Manhattan!
HT Staff  |  Jun 06, 2004
The Home Entertainment 2004 East Show, held in New York City, May 20–23, at the New York Hilton, gave Show attendees a memorable weekend filled with live music, educational seminars, a special movie night, and a grand concert—all included with the price of admission to the Show.
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Coming Attractions
HT Staff  |  Jun 06, 2004
Yamaha
Now you can enjoy your music collection throughout your entire home with Yamaha's MCX-C15 MusicCAST in-wall music access client. The client works in conjunction with Yamaha's MCX-1000 server, which features an 80-gigabyte hard drive from which you can access all of your stored content. The MCX-C15 is connected to the server using CAT-5 wiring; you can also connect it wirelessly by adding a wireless access point that supports IEEE 802.11b/g. The server-to-client system can support up to five wireless connections and two wired connections. Yamaha's in-wall client will add audio to any room for $649.
Yamaha
(800) 4-YAMAHA
www.yamaha.com/yec
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HT Staff  |  Jun 06, 2004
DVD: Popeye 75th-Anniversary Celebration Collector's Edition—Koch Vision
Video: 1
Audio: 2
Extras: 0
Cartoon connoisseurs are to be forgiven if they foolishly believe that a three-disc package entitled Popeye: 75th-Anniversary Celebration Collector's Edition might contain a minute or two of archival-worthy, eye-popping Popeye animation. After all, the beautifully designed case jacket proclaims the set offers "85 of the original King Features Syndicate cartoons" that have been "Digitally Remastered with Enhanced Audio and Visual Quality!" You'd also be excused if you didn't immediately realize that the eight hours of 4:3 video accompanied by glorious Dolby Mono sound was culled from those two watershed years of made-for-TV Popeye creativity: 1960 and 1961.
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Hot Stuff from Da-Lite
HT Staff  |  May 31, 2004  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2004
Da-Lite Screen Company, Inc. may have made its name supplying film screens to the educational and business presentation markets, but the Warsaw, Indiana company hasn't been ignoring the home theater trend.
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Panasonic DMR-E95H DVD Recorder
HT Staff  |  May 31, 2004  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2004
Panasonic's new DMR-E95H is the company's most feature-rich DVD recorder yet. The latest addition to the 2004 "DIGA" line, the DMR-E95H features a 160GB hard drive capable of up to 284 hours of recording time. It can record onto both DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs.
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Industry Roundup
Barry Willis  |  May 31, 2004

Sony's turnaround plan: The electronics giant has initiated an ambitious plan to achieve a 10% profit margin by March 2007, the company stated in a news conference on May 19. Key product lines in the program include flat-panel television sets and DVD recorders. Sony is in possible buyout discussions with US film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., a move that could significantly affect the corporate bottom line for years to come. Rumored price for the studio and its 4000+ library of titles is $5 billion.

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Added to the Archives This Week
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 31, 2004

Thomas J. Norton lights up the groundbreaking <A HREF="/videoprojectors/504sony">Sony QUALIA 004 SXRD projector</A> to see the latest evolution of LCoS technology. TJN reports from his "daily diary recounting my experiences with the QUALIA&mdash;a close-up-and-personal whirlwind affair with the current state of Sony's art in home-theater projectors."

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LCos HD Monitor from Brillian
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 31, 2004

<A HREF="http://www.brilliancorp.com">Brillian Corporation</A> is making waves among the HDTV elite with its first-ever rear projection monitor, a 65"-diagonal widescreen unit with exceptional specifications&mdash;among them a 160-degree viewing angle and 2000:1 contrast ratio. At the heart of the new BR6501m/I are three 1280x720 microdisplays, the latest in the company's patent-pending Gen II LCoS line.

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Toshiba DLP Projection TVs
HT Staff  |  May 31, 2004
Toshiba has announced a new lineup of ten big screen rear-projection televisions built around Texas Instrument's HD2+ digital light processing (DLP) chip.
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Added to the Archives This Week
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 24, 2004

Can you really have it all with a single disc player? Michael Fremer plugs in the <A HREF="/dvdplayers/304linn">Linn Unidisk 1.1 universal player</A> to find out. MF notes, "The war of the high-resolution audio formats has ended in an unofficial truce."

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HE 2004 Day Two
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 23, 2004  |  First Published: May 24, 2004

Among products dazzling home theater fans at HE 2004 are several new models of Tetra loudspeakers. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Tetra is launching its gear in the US in cooperation with its newest US dealer, Spectra Audio Design Group of New York, owned by Michael Goodrich.

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New Toshiba Gear
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 23, 2004

Just one day before the start of HE 2004 in New York, Toshiba America hosted its own new line show in Austin, Texas. Among the new products arrayed there were DVD recorders, combo TVs with disc players, digital media servers, and more.

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HE 2004 Day One
Ultimate AV Staff  |  May 21, 2004

With two days completed and two days to go, Home Entertainment 2004 is packing them in at the NY Midtown Hilton.

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Coming Attractions
HT Staff  |  May 17, 2004
Marantz
With Marantz's new display, you can enjoy plasma technology without breaking the bank to do so. According to the company, the $6,000, 42-inch PD4220V widescreen monitor boasts high brightness and outstanding color accuracy and contrast. The monitor features an 853-by-480 resolution, 4:3 and 16:9 formats, and a DVI input. It's compatible with computer images up to UXGA resolution, and it automatically scales (up or down) video sources as necessary. An RS-232C serial port is also included.
Marantz
(630) 741-0300
www.marantz.com
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HT Staff  |  May 17, 2004
DVD: Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series—Shout! Factory
Video: 4
Audio: 3
Extras: 4
This series about high school misfits barely completed a semester during its original run, but it gained a devoted following. The six-disc, 18-episode series includes five installments that never aired on NBC, and they're a real find for fans that can't get enough of early '80s nostalgia.
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