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Immersive Lunar Documentary By Tom Hanks Blasts Off At Space Center Houston

The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks is a new immersive documentary playing at Space Center Houston. Space Center Houston renovated and upgraded its IMAX theater to prepare for the new movie.
Wolfson Announces New Chips for Portable Electronics

Wolfson Microelectronics plc believes that growth in new and existing classes of high volume digital consumer electronics, requiring high fidelity audio, will drive demand for mixed-signal …
CEA Announces New Color Coding Standard for Home Theater

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced the publication of an updated Home Theater Color Coding standard, designed to simplify consumers' installation of home theater systems. The …
Sonic Introduces Blu‑ray Creator Software

Sonic Solutions today introduced Sonic Blu-ray Creator(TM), the world's first commercial authoring system to enable high-end production facilities and major motion picture studios to create titles …
Design Your Own Seating on Elite HT Website

Elite Home Theater Seating offers a new innovative option to home theater designers and builders. With its interactive but user friendly website, today's home theater aficionados can customize …
LCD Display Costs Expected to Drop 62% by 2008

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in flat panel display (FPD) market research and consulting, has developed a new report which reveals current and future panel costs, material prices, depreciation, …
Portable MP3 Players to Achieve Critical Mass in 2005

JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), today reported that U.S. shipments of MP3 players will grow 35% to 18.2 million in 2005 and maintain a compound annual growth …
Meedio Essentials HTPC Software only $20!

Meedio announced today that its developer community has submitted 200 plugins, themes, and extensions to the Meedio Add-In Directory (MAID). To celebrate, the company is discounting its Meedio …
Xbox 360 to be Shown on MTV May 12

MTV: Music Television and Microsoft Corp. today announced a global marketing alliance to unveil the next-generation Xbox(R) video game system on MTV channels in the United States, Asia Pacific and …
ViewSonic Introduces 2 New Commercial Flat‑Panels

ViewSonic(R) Corp., a worldwide leader in visual display products, today introduced two large-screen, flat-panel displays designed for digital signage, videoconferencing and other commercial …
Mitsubishi Introduces 1080p DLP HDTVs

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., today unveiled the consumer electronics industry's most advanced HDTV receiver/controller, the HD-6000. The HD-6000, which will be available at selected …
Denon Adds XM Satellite to AVR‑4806

Denon Electronics today announced that it has added XM Satellite Radio functionality to its recently introduced AVR-4806 multi-zone audio/video receiver. With the addition of an optional XM antenna, …
Panasonic Intros 9 VIERA Flat Panel TVs

Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its new line of VIERA series digital high-definition flat panel TVs. The line includes three …
Syntax Groups New Olevia 42‑inch LCD TV

Syntax Groups Corporation, one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of LCD TVs in North America, today announced the new 42-inch Olevia widescreen HD built-in LCD TV, its first model to include …
New Yamaha RX‑V4600 Receiver with HDMI

Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced the RX-V4600, a new A/V digital home theater receiver with HDMI, Dual i.LINK, HD Radio technology, and YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic …
AgileTV Promptu Voice Activated‑Controlled TV

AgileTV Presents Promptu Voice Activated-Controlled Television AgileTV is aiming to change the way people watch TV, with…
Scientific‑Atlanta MCP‑100 HD DVR with DVD Burner

Building upon its award-winning Explorer 8300 digital video recorder (DVR) platform, Scientific-Atlanta today announced its new MCP-100 Media Center DVR with a built-in DVD burner. This …
RBH Sound MC Series Loudspeakers

RBH Sound's MC Theater Series has turned it up a notch introducing interchangeable speaker systems for home theater and audio enthusiasts, without the bank-breaking investment. Featuring high-quality …
Hitachi Acquires Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Patents

Hitachi, Ltd. today reached an official agreement with Fujitsu Limited concerning Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited (FHP), a joint venture of the two companies, in accordance with a basic …
Pace Micro Announces Tahoe High Definition DVR

Pace Micro Technology, a leading digital set-top box provider specializing in the development of emerging technologies across all television platforms, today announced the launch of its Tahoe High …
Digital Video Cable Extender from Gefen

Gefen today announced the release of its DVI Booster, a small unit that corrects video signal degradation that occurs over stretches of DVI copper cables used to extend a display away from its high …
Consumers Changing the Way they Access Media

Consumer media habits are changing as people watch video-on-demand services through their cable or satellite provider (10 percent in the past month), access news online (11 percent in the past …
Turn Your PC into a Satellite TiVo System

KWorld Computer Co. Ltd., manufacturer of a full line of multi-media processing equipment for the PC marketplace, announces the DVB-S Satellite Receiver System, a single PCI card conversion system …
Yamaha Launches 8 New XM‑Ready Receivers

Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced four new affordable A/V digital home theater receivers equipped with XM Satellite Radio capability (XM-Ready) that will enhance and diversify the …
Optoma H79 DLP Projector with DarkChip3

Optoma Technology, Inc. announced the availability of its next-generation, high performance digital projector for home theater enthusiasts. With an MSRP of $9,999, Optoma's H79 delivers stunningly …
Sony ES Receivers and DVD Players

Delivering a definitive multi-room home theater experience, Sony Electronics recently announced its updated ES (Elevated Standard) audio/video receiver lineup. The 2005 lineup includes three new …
Atlantic Steel CD Case Collection

Atlantic Inc's portable CD Steel Case collection offers consumers a durable and attractive way to protect CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs on the go. Available in three models, the cases are made of a hard …
Parasound NewClassic Amps & Processor

Parasound has announced the introduction of five new power amplifiers and a 7.1 channel A/V surround controller as the first of the company's "NewClassic" line of products for professional custom …
Sony Debuts 42‑inch PlasmaPro Display

Sony Electronics today introduced a 42-inch flat panel plasma professional display. The FWD-42PV1 plasma flat panel display has several features that make it well-suited for the demands of today's …