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SOUND B.C.: Movie houses were mainly monaural, far below home audio quality. A.D.: Lucas' THX loudspeakers, paired with the Dolby system in the projection booth, brought clear, supple stereo sound to movie theaters. THX is now in some 2,700 theaters...
...truck outside and transmit," he says. "But there were no cables for high def, and the setup was expensive." Sony had to create a new cable system for the five HD cameras needed for each game. By piggybacking on FoxSports' regular NHL broadcasts and using its graphics and audio, Garvin and Cuban got the network running in 15 months...
Nesson shared the e-mails with his class anyway. When Warren met with Nesson to discuss the ethics of divulging the e-mails, Nesson secretly tape-recorded this conversation, then put the audio and the e-mails on his website and told students and faculty where they could find...
...even that newfangled. Companies like Net2phone and DialPad have been selling Internet phone service for years. But it hasn't caught on for a variety of reasons: it can be tricky to use, some services require exotic hardware, and the audio quality is iffy at best--most Internet phone calls sound like they're coming from a broken pay phone on Mars...
...sense since they defeat the music player's portability. The brilliance of the rad-looking Ellula Hotair speakers ($50) is that they're inflatable: blow them up and they're about nine inches high; deflate them and they're a mere two inches. The air-filled casings pack an audio punch. And the speakers pack neatly in your coat pocket. --By Roy B. White