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Video Upconversion: Facts and Fallacies
 |  Jul 25, 2007

Lately it seems as though every component in a fully tricked-out home theater system wants to dink with the video - the DVD player, the receiver, the TV. Usually whatever is being done is described as some sort of upconversion. What does that mean, though? And perhaps more important, is it always a good thing?

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Installation Previews
 |  Jul 20, 2007

Double Feature This vacation home is surrounded by the beauty of the Mexican Pacific coast and immersed in the latest A/V gear.

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Installations: An Installer's Life
Michael Gaughn  |  Jul 10, 2007

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Q&A - July/August, 2007
Ian G. Masters  |  Jul 08, 2007

TV Half-Life

Q. I read somewhere in your magazine that cathode-ray tube TVs have a half-life of 30,000 hours. At 6 hours a day, that's around 13 years. I'm about to make the HDTV plunge. What are the half-life specs for plasma, LCD, and DLP? Jeff Dorscher Glendale, AZ

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Ask the Expert: In-Wall Speakers for Surround Sound
 |  Jul 08, 2007

Q. My home theater employs small tower speakers with a matching center speaker below my rear projector, dipole surrounds, and a 12-inch powered subwoofer. I'm building a new family room and would like to move to a flat-panel TV with in-wall or ceiling home theater speakers.

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Your Guide to High-End Accessories
 |  Jul 07, 2007

Furniture Why banish your components to a dark, stuffy closet? Furniture makers have a variety of stands and cabinets that will make your gear easy to get to and great to look at.

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Sonance C4630 SE Home Audio Distribution System
John Sciacca  |  Jul 05, 2007

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Platter Matters: Three Turntables
Michael Trei  |  Jul 04, 2007

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Spin Doctor: Tips for Your New LP Rig
Michael Trei  |  Jul 04, 2007

Placement. First, don't locate the turntable on a surface or in a cabinet that also supports loudspeakers, or in the acoustic peak of a room mode, as nothing will screw up your sound more than feeding energy back into the turntable.

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Canon XH A1 HDV Camcorder
Al Griffin  |  Jul 03, 2007

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The Gadget Girl: Ultra Mobile Personal Computers
Jamie Sorcher  |  Jul 02, 2007

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Talking Shop: Audio Advisors
Jamie Sorcher  |  Jul 02, 2007

Jeff Hoover is the president of Audio Advisors in West Palm Beach, Florida (audioadvisors.com; 561-478-3100) - and everyone thought he was, well, a little crazy when he built the Design Center, a $2 million showcase of rooms outfitted with the latest gear. But Hoover knew better.

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Reality Bytes: Thoughts on Apple, EMI, and DRM: To Unprotect and Serve?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 02, 2007

Here's some summer reading: Thoughts on Music, by Apple's Steve Jobs (apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic). It's not a romance novel, or even a juicy tell-all. Instead, his short treatise may change the future of recorded music.

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RCA EZ201 Small Wonder Camcorder
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 02, 2007

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Gadget Gary: Philips DCP850 Docking Entertainment System
 |  Jul 02, 2007

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