Weekly Site Roundup (07/15/02)
ARTICLE SPOTLIGHT
Guide Picks: CD Players/Changers
Looking for a new CD player? Check out my top picks in moderately priced, but high performance units from a variety of manufacturers. Newly updated for Summer-Fall 2002.
HOME ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY NEWS HEADLINES
Spider-Man Is Super-sized On Video (Video Business)
Report Says Seven Out Of Ten TV Owners Ready To Buy A New And Larger TV (Widescreen Review)
Fire in the Wire - The Future of Audio Interconnects (Audio Revolution)
New Multichannel Music Players Due (TWICE)
'Gosford Park' DVD Debuts New Technology (MeddiaLine News)
Home Theatre Projectors Featuring DLP Technology Command 64 Percent Market Share (Widesscreen Review)
Panic Attack Begins With Superbit Foray (Video Business)
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
JVC HM-DH30000 D-VHS VCR
Is the VCR era really over? Enter the world of high definition video recording and D-VHS movie playback with this innovative VCR from JVC.
FEATURED LINKS THIS WEEK
Olson Eletronics-UK
Maker of AV equipment racks and power distribution products.
Featured in the Furniture/Media Storage Subject Page.
IDS Audio/Video Technologies
Based in Roslyn, New York, IDS provides comprehensive home theater, multi-room, communications, and security system installation and sales.
Featured in the Home Theater Subject Page.
FROM THE HOME THEATER FORUM
HDTV Line Doubling
From TIGERASPECT:
Here's what I'd like to do: Hook up my (basic) RCA DircTV satellite receiver to an HDTV (which I'm still researching). No HDTV converter box planned. Question: In YOUR opinion, will the picture be appreciably better using the line-doubling feature of the TV, which is supposed to upconvert analog to 480p? Will it (the TV) appreciably improve clarity, when I surf the internet with my WebTV receiver? Maybe the benefits would be too marginal to upgrade my TV for these applications considering what an HDTV costs. I would appreciate your input & experience.
Join in on the discussion.
MORE FROM THE FORUM:
DVD Region 4?
From A:
Does someone know a website where I can buy DVD region 4 (Spanish editions)? I'm from Costa Rica.
ELSEWHERE ON ABOUT.COM
FROM THE MAILBOX
From Joe:
Good article Robert (on Budget DVD Players). The problem as I see it is that out of the ten dvd players you mentioned none of them seem to have both SACD and progresive scan outputs. At this stage of the game you think both options on one machine would have become quite common but alas I haven't yet seen a one.
From Your Guide:
The current article is a listing only for BUDGET DVD players -- and I have posted my favorites -- I will have another list towards the end of the year on higher priced players that include more advanced features, such as progressive scan with SACD or DVD -Audio
In fact, two of my favorite DVD players in this area are:
Pioneer DV-47A DVD/CD/SACD/DVD-Audio player with progressive scan
Sony DVP-NS900V DVD/CD/SACD Player
Let me know if you need more info.
FINAL WORDS
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