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Pioneer Focuses on Plasma, Custom Installation 

Continuing its targeting of the “discerning entertainment junkie,” Pioneer showed off its line of 2008 Kuro TV models earlier this month in New York. And for the first time since the high-profile launch of the flagship Kuro brand, Pioneer has thrown a technology other than plasma into the mix. ...

New Samsung and LG Designs Push LCD Market Forward 

Based on Samsung and LG TV introduction over the past two weeks, the future of HDTV will be about a lot more than just pixels, frame rates, and response time. With 1080p resolution and 120Hz refresh rates at the top of the performance charts, manufacturers are banking on consumers demanding a lot more than stellar images from their premium-tier TVs. ...

Focus On Residential AV: Smart Choices for a Smart Home  

By Jack Kontney

With the ready availability of powerful control systems, it's no surprise to learn that today's dream home is, almost inevitably, a smart home. On the recommendation of their builder, the owners of a spectacular 6000-square-foot residence in La Jolla, Calif., engaged San Diego Sound and Video to create such a system for them. ...

Electronics Recycling Catches On 

With Earth Day just around the corner and the analog shutoff looming on the horizon, efforts to create coordinated recycling plans prior to February’s TV digital TV conversion appear to be paying off. ...

Flamboyant Home Theater Ambience 

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Manufacturers Concentrate on Developing LCD Technology 

The latest TV sales figures released by NPD Group—for the week preceding Super Bowl 2008—show LCD outselling plasma TV by well more than three to one with LCD taking 79 percent unit market share while projection TVs limped along at 11 percent and rear-projection at 4 percent. Now that LCDs clearly dominate the market, manufacturers are turning their focus to the next level in hopes of eliminating problems that have dogged LCD flatpanels from the beginning. ...

Park Avenue Home Theater 

The theater was inspired by the client’s favorite section of New York, where they have many memories of good times and special moments. ...

Web Content Makes Advances Into Television Market 

The blurring of the lines between Internet-based content and network TV continues as TiVo announced this week that it has added do-it-yourself video broadcaster YouTube to its stable of offerings. ...

Glamorous, Intimate Seven-Seat Theater 

The video challenge of hiding the Marantz projector in an enclosure in the rear soffit was tedious. There were different elevations on the front and rear soffits. In addition, the design element of a monogram dropped below the soffit a few inches. ...

Pre-wired Home Control System Expands Future of Custom Market 

Sony and Control4 have taken their relationship to the next level, offering custom installation dealers a pre-wired integrated home control and entertainment system. Last year at CEDIA Expo, the two companies showed Control4 management of Sony’s 400-disc DVD changer and video switcher. At its open house last week in Las Vegas, Sony took the wraps off the NHS-130C, an integrated rack system combining 7.1-channel, high-definition audio/video for the main theater, HD video distribution and multiroom music in 12 additional zones—with Control4 management....