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Vicoustic: A Designer Take on Room Acoustics
Kris Deering  |  Dec 02, 2013  | 
This year’s CEDIA convention had a lot of high profile products that generated a lot of buzz. One of the companies that caught my eye was Vicoustic, whose booth featured an assortment of acoustic panels that looked nothing like the boring rectangles and squares we typically associate with room treatments; instead, they looked like something you’d find in the lobby of an upscale office or hotel.
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Al Griffin  |  Apr 14, 2004  | 

It wasn't long ago that you'd hear old-school audiophiles at CES bemoaning the disappearance of tubes - the vacuum tubes in audio gear, that is. But the latest technology to beat a quick retreat from the mega-electronics show is the picture tube, or CRT, used in traditional TVs.

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Video Calibration
Steve Faber  |  Oct 01, 2007  | 
Set up your video display to get a great picture.
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Video iPod
 |  Jan 14, 2006  | 

I'm tooling around the lazy lanes of my Long Island hometown in the ol' Acura. Inside the car, a sing-songy woman's voice is bouncing around -

"The parties took place on the front lawn of 4347 Wisteria Lane every Sunday afternoon ..."

Err ... well, actually, it's Lee Avenue I'm driving down, and it's Saturday afternoon.

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Video Killed the MP3 Star?
Michael Antonoff  |  Nov 03, 2002  | 
Palm-size jukeboxes that hold hundreds of hours of MP3 music on an embedded hard drive are no longer a novelty. Now Archos has taken the category to the next level by adding a 1 1/2-inch color LCD, the ability to store and play photo slideshows or highly compressed but full-motion video, and direct A/V output to a TV.
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Video Tour: PS Audio Sprout and Teac AI-301DA AmpDAC Combos
Rob Sabin  |  Jul 10, 2015  | 
What's an "integrated amplifier/asynchronous digital-to-analog converter combo" (a.k.a. amp/DAC)? Editor-in-Chief Rob Sabin explains and presents an overview of the PS Audio Sprout and Teac AI-301DA reviewed by Dan Kumin.

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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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Vizio Brings Flat-Panel HDTV to the Masses
Rich Warren  |  Jan 07, 2006  | 

Vizio L32 LCD HDTV

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Wadia 170iTransport iPod dock
Michael Trei  |  Jan 20, 2009  | 
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We Give a Critical Eye to 'High Definition Glasses.'
John Sciacca  |  Jul 30, 2008  | 
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WebTV on Steroids
Michael Antonoff  |  Jan 25, 2005  | 

Surfing the Web on a TV has never had much appeal for anyone who's comfortable with a computer. Even mighty Microsoft did little to increase the set-top browser market after it purchased WebTV and renamed it MSN TV. Now the company, through hardware partner RCA (Thomson), is trying again with the introduction of the MSN TV 2 Internet and Media Player.

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Welcome to Flatville
Rich Warren  |  Jan 05, 2005  | 

I live in Illinois near a town called Flatville. The buzz at this year's Consumer Electronics Show might lead you to believe that it's the capital of the universe. On Press Day, January 5, the day prior to the official opening of CES, every major manufacturer introduced myriad models of new flat-panel displays, which in the not-too-distant past were called TVs.

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Welcome to the Batcave
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 27, 2008  | 

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Western Digital WG1S5000 My DVR Expander Hard Drive
Michael Antonoff  |  Jan 05, 2008  | 

With a digital video recorder, you're master of the HDTV universe today, but brought to your knees tomorrow when your DVR fills up and automatically deletes the penultimate episode of Dancing with the Stars before you've witnessed the duel play-out.

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What Is "Enhanced Stereo"?
Ken Richardson  |  May 04, 2006  | 

That's what a lot of people want to know when they buy a Sony DualDisc and notice that the DVD side offers Enhanced Stereo. As Clark Novak writes on QuadraphonicQuad.com, "What the hell does that mean anyway? 'Enhanced Stereo.' That's kind of like 'connoisseur's popcorn.' Means nothing. Grr."

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