Summer/Fall 2003 Table of Contents
Feature Stories
Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You: Media Friendly Computers
Thanks to today's specialized video cards, fast processors and inexpensive RAM, the day of the media-friendly PC has arrived at long last.
Get Smart, DVD Recorders That Is
Smart DVD recorders are a new home media technology which combines the capabilites of DVDs, DVRs and venerable VCRs into an innovative product category that yields capabilities greater than the sum of the parts. Cool.
DVRs: Tune In, Turn On, Uplink and Network
If you thought the digital video recorder (DVD) that mates a hard drive with a TV tuner was sophisticated now, then watch out: it's about to get a whole new set of super smarts.
Getting It to You
Media clients bring sound and pictures from your computer to any room.
Departments
Audio In
- Exploitika!
- Vincent Voice Library
- Kid's Internet Radio
- FindSounds.com
- Music of the Holocaust
- Oil and Gas Radio
- The TRACON.com
Noise
The latest news in interactive technology
New Gear
- Terk TV44 Off-air Antenna
- RCA Alert Guard TVs
- Samsung DVD-P731M DVD/Memory Card Player
- GoVideo DV2730 Networkable DVD Player
- ViewSonic airpanel Smart Displays
- Interact-TV Telly Home Entertainment Server
- Toshiba RD-X2 DVD Burner/Hard Drive Recorder
- Microsoft Broadband Networking Equipment
- BroadQ Qcast Tuner Gold
Video In
- DivX
- Britshorts
- Captiol Records
- Comedy Central
- Major League Baseball
- Guerrilla Filmmakers
- Maakies
- Scour
Smart Discs
- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
- Barbershop
- XXX
- Liberty's Kids
Columns
Editor's View: New Products, New Terminology
We're lacking standard terms to define this new technology.
Black Boxes: Hitachi 51SWX20B 51" Rear-Projection TV
Big and In Control
Black Boxes: Pioneer Elite DV-47Ai DVD Player
Team Player
Black Boxes: Prismiq MediaPlayer
A Little Media in Your Den
Black Boxes: Philips ProntoLite remote control software for PalmOS
Philips ProntoLite remote control software for PalmOS
Black Boxes: Sony Vaio PCV-RZ14G
Sony Vaio PCV-RZ14G
Black Boxes: JVC HM-DH30000U D-Theater VCR
JVC HM-DH30000U D-Theater VCR
Black Boxes: Terk WaveMaster 30 Transmitter-Receiver (LF-30S)
Terk WaveMaster 30 Transmitter-Receiver (LF-30S)
Interactive TV: A Survey of Interactive TV
ITV in 2003 - A Survey of Interactive TV
Home Networking: Ubiquitous Audio and Video at the Panasonic Center, Tokyo
Ubiquitous Audio and Video at the Panasonic Center, Tokyo