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FIRST TEST! PHILIPS' IMMUTABLE CD RECORDER THE WORLD'S #1 AlII MAGAZINE ri ea ,0;otAl el T C-7 IC? Lf-IL -11 I I 11D3_11 _11.D _f3,11 r a JJIlib,'Diver 6 's Q&A TP * DA90 SONY DIGITAL SIGNAL OW F'E .40E02 VUE04 Futu k HomeRecordi he New nium JANUARY 1998 US S3.50 CANADA 54.50 UK £2.20 :PRT1461'60;1711ritItt;;*********5-DAT91102i5 EQUIPM 1.1,,I I I,,,,,I.11.111,11.1.1.1..1.1..11..1.1m1,1.1 1 B&W SMCRIERMY5569 2(1917495° CI O CAMBRI 272 1 DVX8000 MULTIMEDIA HOME THEATER Experience DVD movies, DVD-ROM gaming, even the Internet with intense sound and graphics. DVX8000 manages and enhances your entire home theater set-up. Video line doubler, 3-D graphics accelerator and audio technology Dolby Digital Is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories licensing Coro DVX8000 by Marantz® (including Dolby Digital""). All integrated with powerful multimedia PC functionality. It's entertainment to the extreme. Available at select dealers. For more info on Philips Extreme Home Entertainment call 1-888-486-6272 or visit us at www.mmhometheater.com ©1997 Philips Electronics North America Corp. ISO watts per channel Dolby Digital Decoding Dual-Room/Dual Source Operation 5 Video Inputs/S-Video Connection K-STAT Discrete Audio Amplifier Radio Data System Graphical On -Screen Interface Cool glowy buttons 47 1997 Kenwood GREAT. WE DESIGN ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST SOPHISTICATED RECEIVERS AND THE REMOTE GETS ALL THE ATTENTION. r-NIV Four years creating a perfect receiver, and for wha:?' Introducing the FutureSet remove. It comes with all of Kenwood's top AV receivers and, as hard as it is for us to admit, it is pretty remarkable. Besides having its famous red buttons, FutureSet can actually download operating codes for new components, like a new CD player or a DVD player, directly from a touch tone phone, eliminating the possibility of it beccming obsolete. So go ahead and buy our receivers for the remote. 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Ceremonies at Europe and Japan, Kenwood has New York's Waldorf-Astoria introduced a line of MD compo- Hotel on January 12 will be nents here that includes portable taped for broadcast January 19 and home recorders ($400 each), on VH1.... The Recording a pocket-size player ($250) with Industry Association of America an 8 -hour battery, and a six -disc has certified Elton John's tribute car changer ($600).... Yamaha to the late Princess Diana, will roll out a new flagship "Candle in the Wind 1997," as home -theater processor/amp this the best-selling single in history, spring to replace the DSP- enthusiasts rail against pay -per -view DVD with sales of over 11 million. A3090. The $2,800 DSP-Al Rarely if ever in the history of consumer electronics has the performs both Dolby Digital and mere announcement of a new technology generated such an out of this world DTS 5.1 -channel decoding and From Sage Industries of Garden immediate - and negative - reaction. A/V enthusiasts ap- boasts 39 sound -field modes. Grove, CA, comes the Ultimate including a new one based on pear united against Divx, the pay -per -view offshoot of the Field Optimizer (U.F.O.), a samples taken at the famous DVD format slated for release this summer (see "Technology "unique tool" that's said to New York club the Bottom Update," December). In bulletin -board postings at Stereo improve the sound quality of Line.... The Consumer Elec- Review's America Online site and around the Web, the anti- CDs, laserdiscs, and DVDs by tronics Manufacturers Associa- eliminating "paramagnetic tion (CEMA), which just started Divx fervor has reached a fever pitch, with buffs railing fields ... that adversely affect tracking sales of DVD players, about everything from having to pay a fee every time you the accuracy of [a player's] is projecting that sales to dealers play a Divx disc after the initial 48 -hour viewing period to the optical pickup." The device, will hit 400,000 in 1997.... format's incompatibility with current DVD players. An E/Town which looks like a travel iron, is Dolby Labs reports that 92 regu- (www.e-town.com) survey found that 96.8 percent of the 786 also claimed to improve the larly scheduled broadcast and performance of electronic respondents answered "No" to the question, "Do you like cable TV shows are now components. The Sage news encoded in Dolby Surround. the Divx concept?" Among the more colorful comments: "It's release concludes, "U.F.O. is like buying a lollipop, and every time you lick it you have to habit-forming inasmuch [sic] as reverse crossover pay again" and "I purchase DVDs, but not with Big Brother a dependency on ... cleaner, In the record biz, "crossover" keeping a watch on what I view!" more articulate sound." Another usually means an opera singer case for The X -Files? doing Broadway show tunes, a Surf long enough and you'll find a few positive com- classical guitarist playing the ments. One page that's linked to the "Anti-Divx Page" (www. hard copy Beatles, or, lately, concert dvdresource.com/divx) lists three "good things," such as not Without You: The Tragic Story of pianists recording tangos. Now having to return the disc like a rental tape, and 33 "bad Badfinger ($19.95), the inside the tide is shifting. Flamenco things." For instance, "Imagine if the babysitter [took] a peek story of the band championed by guitarist Ottmar Liebert has the Beatles, has just been at 50 movies in your collection that you do not yet 'own.'" made his debut on Sony Clas- released by Frances Glover sical with Leaning into the Books of San Mateo, CA.... Night, and the same label has first rewritable DVD DVD-ROM and DVD-R Barry Kemfeld's What to Listen released Joe Jackson's Heaven For computers, that is: Pana- computer discs as well as DVD for in Jazz, now available from and Hell, an interpretation of sonic's LF-D101 DVD-RAM movie discs and any kind of CD. Yale University Press in hard- the seven deadly sins that unites drive, the first of its kind, is However, DVD-RAM discs cover ($45) or paperback pop and classical stars. The slated to hit store shelves this recorded on the LF-D101 will ($22.50), includes a CD with Piano Man himself, Billy Joel, month with a $799 price tag. not play in current DVD players classic examples of the has stunned fans with the decla- The drive can read and write to a or DVD-ROM drives. music.... Knopf has published ration that he will work only new kind of double -sided DVD Memoirs by Sir Georg Solti in the classical vein from now with a 5.2 -gigabyte capacity music journal ($29.95), completed just before on. And founding Beatle ($40) or a single -sided disc with The 1998 inductees to the Rock - his death at age 84 in September. Paul McCartney, co -composer a 2.6 -gigabyte capacity ($25). and -Roll Hall of Fame include One of the twentieth century's of the Liverpool Oratorio, is at Both discs are erasable and the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, the greatest conductors and a it again - this time with housed in a plastic cartridge, Mamas and the Papas, Santana, prolific recording artist, Solti a symphonic poem called which is removable for single - Lloyd Price, Gene Vincent, and received more Grammy Awards Standing Stone (EMI). sided discs. The drive can read producer Allen Toussaint. The (30) than any other musician.