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Peter Pachal | Apr 01, 2002

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The Spider’s Web

Peter Pachal | May 15, 2002

Given that Spider-Man has been spinning his webs

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in comic books for almost 40 years, it's about time the wall-crawler made the leap to the big screen. Besides starring in his own flick this spring, Spidey has his sticky fingers into - appropriately enough - the World Wide Web.

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NHT, Simple Devices Under Rockford Umbrella Peter Pachal | Jan 08, 2003

Rockford Corporation, which owns such brands as Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, and MB Quart, used CES 2003 to showcase its newest member, NHT, and promote home-network products made by Rockford's new partner, SimpleDevices. Formerly owned by Recoton, speaker maker NHT used its CES limelight to promote its modular Evolution line and that line's latest addition, the on-wall L5 speaker.

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Satellite Radio Services Vie for Conquest of Space Peter Pachal | Jan 08, 2003

Declaring "it's about the music," Sirius satellite radio today unveiled its plans for 2003, which include dedicated home tuners and nine new music channels, while its competitor, XM Satellite Radio, touted its 360,000-strong subscriber base as evidence of its vitality.

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CES Day One Views Peter Pachal | Jan 09, 2003

Samsung was one of several companies that featured Blu-ray DVD technology, which is designed to store HDTV programming on disc. Don't hold your breath for products. day1-5 Sony showed a prototype Blu-ray DVD recorder.

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CES 2003 Scrapbook

Peter Pachal | Jan 11, 2003

Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith relaxes with a little video golf at the Motorola booth.

Meridian shows off some of the available DVD-Audio titles at its booth.

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CES 2003: The Unauthorized List

Peter Pachal | Jan 11, 2003

Virtually every company, brand, and industry coalition that attends the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas takes the opportunity to lay claim to the most "remarkable," "groundbreaking," or-three cheers for everyone's favorite-"innovative" developments at CES. Of course, they can't all be right.

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DVD Cool

Peter Pachal | Jan 27, 2003

(Photo Illustration by Tony Cordoza) Ever since Sean Connery shot a bad guy out of his Aston Martin's ejector seat in Goldfinger, James Bond's gadgets have become a staple of the franchise. In each Bond flick, the cantankerous Q outfits 007 with a few ordinary-looking items that can do much more than meets the eye.

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Delphi SkyFi XM Satellite Radio Receiver

Peter Pachal | Feb 27, 2003

From their TV ads, it's easy to see that both XM and Sirius satellite radio are aimed first and foremost at the car market. Sirius commercials portray a typical listener as a family man who loves being behind the wheel, while XM's incorporate strangely violent imagery of grand pianos plunging onto highways and shattering into millions of pieces.

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Plasma Partners

Peter Pachal | Aug 27, 2003

Photo by Tony Cordoza In the future, people won't have to worry about speakers for their TVs. At least that's the message from most Hollywood filmmakers, who invariably depict future TVs as super-sharp wall-size screens with audio that comes out of thin air.

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