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Films recorded on digital videodiscs look even better. Many of the hundreds of movies available on DVD are encoded with the boxy TV version on one side and the original theatrical wide version on the other. So a wide-screen set that's ready for HDTV is also ready for DVD. A Samsung DVD player plugged into my Panasonic HDTV splayed the train wreck in The Fugitive gloriously across the full wide screen...
...think not (especially if you exclude "tongue sandwich"). That's why last week found me happy as a Teletubby on tequila, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The big news there was that virtually every audio-video manufacturer is selling, or about to sell, an affordable DVD, or "digital versatile disc," player, which will play music as well as movies with a vividness and clarity far greater than that of VCRs playing videotape...
Industry analysts report that the DVD format suddenly took off this past holiday season, surpassing even their rosiest projections. A decade from now, they say, more people are expected to be using DVD than videotape...
...impressed with the DVD 825 by the Philips Consumer Electronics Co. ($299, in March). It's upgradable so that new features such as better searching and zooming can be added via software discs later. Some parents may find the blocking feature (which allows you to lock out certain discs) useful. Another thing Philips announced: an under-$1,000 recordable DVD player that can record TV shows in real time. Look for that...
...true DVD fanatics Panasonic's Mobile DVD Theater System is what people mean when they say fully loaded. The $2,800 in-car system, which will be available in April, includes a dashboard-mounted screen and a shock-resistant DVD player, as well as high-fidelity speakers. Since it costs roughly twice what my old Honda Civic is worth, I won't be buying it. Nor will I be outfitting my wreck with Visteon's Rear-Seat Entertainment Center ($1,300), a system that houses a monitor, a video deck and a Nintendo 64 video-game console. But I suspect...