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Top 6 A/V Urban Legends EXPOSED!

John Sciacca | Mar 31, 2004 | 0 comments

Everybody's had the experience of being breathlessly told some fantastic tale of woe as if it were gospel truth.

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Totally Tubeless

David Katzmaier | Apr 09, 2003 | 0 comments

Photo by Tony Cordoza All diagrams by Dimitry Schidlovsky except for the LCD which is by Mark Schrieder. Given that cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) provide the best pictures, why are so many companies moving away from tubes and into new technologies? Because that's how they can make the thinner and lighter TVs everybody's clamoring for.

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Track One: Opening Doors with Ray Manzarek

Mike Mettler | Jul 04, 2008 | 0 comments

Are you happy with how Eagle Vision's Classic Albums DVD of The Doors turned out? I think it's great. Somebody said to me, "Gee, you guys are still willing to talk about it." And I said, "Well, of course. We loved making the first album. We had a lot of fun." Why?

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Tron: Re-Entering the Grid

Geoffrey Morrison | Apr 02, 2011 | 0 comments

GREETINGS, PROGRAMS!

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Tron: Re-Entering the Grid Page 4

Geoffrey Morrison | Apr 02, 2011 | 0 comments

GREETINGS, PROGRAMS!

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Trouble, Spot: 7 Ways to Pet-Proof Your Gear

Karl Tennant | May 06, 2008 | 0 comments

If your two greatest loves in this world are your home theater and your dog Sparky, you may have learned the hard way that they don't always play nice together. Let's face it: As domesticated as modern pets are, they can't exactly be expected to know what those remote controls are for, or that scratching a plasma TV screen is way worse than chewing a slipper.

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Truly Useful Apps: Watching TV on the Second Screen

Michael Antonoff | Feb 21, 2013 | 0 comments

So desperate are the networks to keep you cuffed to their shows that they’ve been launching apps for the second screen. Made for the tablets and smartphones to which viewers’ eyes keep darting—often at the expense of the TV screen—these apps are intended to boost fan loyalty.

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Tune In, Turn Down, Turn On!

Thomas J. Norton | Jul 14, 2009 | 0 comments

THX, Dolby, and Audyssey deliver reference-level punch at lower volumes.

You know the drill. You’re just getting into the latest action blockbuster on your new home theater rig when a still, small voice wafts gently into your SPL-addled ear. “Isn’t that a bit loud?” Or perhaps the voice comes screeching in from another room. “I can’t hear myself think in here.” Or there’s a knock at the front door from the men in blue, demanding that you surrender your assault rifle in exchange for a fun stay in the slam with Tony the Hammer.

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TV Tuner on a Chip

David Ranada | Jan 07, 2006 | 0 comments

A traditional "can" TV tuner next to its tiny Xceive chip replacement

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TV Tweaks - Part One: House Calls

John Sciacca | May 15, 2002 | 0 comments

You finally made the plunge - you bought a new TV. After countless hours of research and comparing Model A to Model B, you're ready to get down to business. So you pop in a demo DVD, fire up the audio system, adjust the lighting, sit back in your favorite chair, and press play. But something isn't right. Everyone looks a little sunburned.

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TV Tweaks - Part Two: Behind the Numbers

Al Griffin | May 15, 2002 | 0 comments

Compared with the "in the lab" box for one of our test reports on, say, an A/V receiver, the lab data for a TV review may seem skimpy. While there aren't a lot of numbers, the ones we do generate can give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from the set - particularly its color reproduction, which is arguably the most important aspect of a TV's performance.

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TV Walls, Digital Radio, and Double-Duty Cams

Rich Warren | Jan 10, 2003 | 0 comments

The first day of the International CES ended on a colorful note at a Sharp press conference on the convention floor in front of scores of its LCD TVs. The company arrayed rows and rows of its flat-screen TVs, from 13 to 37 inches - a total of 286 displays - as the focus of its space.

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Two to Go

| Jan 14, 2006 | 0 comments

The Short Form

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Two-Channel for Beginners

Chris LeGrange | Feb 15, 2006 | First Published: Feb 07, 2006 | 0 comments

I love home theater, but can I find room in my heart for stereo?

I recently visited Berkeley, California, to take a tour of Sumiko, the U.S. distributor for many high-end European audio manufacturers, such as Sonus faber, REL, Primare, Pro-ject, SME, CineVERSUM, SEQUENCE, and Vienna Acoustics. They gave us several demonstrations, including a rather moving and educational listening session with their Cremona speaker line in a two-channel setup. They played several types of music for us, and, with every track, I felt myself getting more involved, more entranced, almost emotional. It wasn't unlike the first time I'd attended Carnegie Hall and listened to a symphony. I was enjoying music explicitly, not listening passively while I cooked, cleaned, exercised, and otherwise lived my life.

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UHD Blu-ray vs. HDMI – Pt. 2: Which Cables Can Actually Pass HDMI 2.0?

David Vaughn | Nov 11, 2016 | 21 comments

Earlier this year, shortly after the release of the first Ultra HD (UHD) Blu-ray Disc player from Samsung, I wrote about the challenges of getting the player's full-bandwidth video signals to travel over longer distances in “UHD Blu-ray vs. HDMI: Let the Battle Begin”. Unfortunately, nearly 8 months later, consumers whose displays are more than 15 feet away from the Samsung UBD-K8500 are still in a pickle when it comes to choosing the proper HDMI cable to get the menu screen to properly come up on screen.

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