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...nerve center of today's home theater is a little-known component called the audio/video receiver. With ports in the back for a variety of TV and stereo signals, the A/V receiver is the link that allows consumers to play their new stereo TV sets through the speakers and amplifiers of their hi-fi systems. Receivers equipped with Dolby Surround sound can re-create the full atmospherics of the movie theater, from the scream of jets passing overhead to the seat-shaking rumble of helicopter gunships. To ensure that what the actors say actually comes out of their mouths, models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants to Wait for HDTV? | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...hills are alive with the sound of music -- and folks from Florida to Hawaii have had just about enough of it. Many communities have decided that so-called boom cars, with their high-power and multispeaker stereo systems, pose an increasing threat to health, safety and sanity. The response: local laws tailored to tone down the boom-car boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATIONS: Muffling the Boom Cars | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...Fort Lauderdale the racket from a boom car is illegal if it can be heard beyond 50 ft. from the vehicle. In California a similar law went into effect Jan. 1. Car-stereo merchants seem to think customers will have just as much fun without pumping the volume to law-breaking -- not to mention earsplitting -- levels. Remarks Stephen Seidl of Fort Lauderdale's Speaker Warehouse: "We advise our clients not to abuse the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATIONS: Muffling the Boom Cars | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

When Air Force One finally flies, it will have six lavatories, not counting the President's own. There will be two galleys, 85 telephones, a six-channel stereo, a 6-cu.-ft. safe for secrets and a television system that will pipe in eight channels at once and enable the President to scan waiting crowds before he emerges. The plane will include four computers, two copying machines, conference rooms, crew bunks, sleeper chairs, a pressroom with TV monitors, and secure phone lines that can rouse Dan, Peter and Tom from any place on the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A $650 Million Flying Palace | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

Dealer: Yes, sir! It also comes with a turbocharged engine, antiskid braking, radial tires and a Blaupunkt stereo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation How Do You Double the Value Of a Trabant? | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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