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...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 with the Dolby Pro Logic feature isolate dialogue and pipe...
None of this comes cheap. A bare-bones home theater costs $400 for the A/V box, $700 for a stereo TV, $800 or more for a laser videodisc player and upwards of $1,500 for a five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry...
Even so, prices will have to drop considerably before surround-sound TV becomes a mass-market phenomenon like the Walkman or the VCR. Unlike those breakthrough products, which instantly transformed electronic life, the new TV systems are likely to be perceived by consumers as a more gradual -- though inevitable -- improvement. Moreover, the Walkman did not require major home remodeling to work its magic. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Mitsubishi demonstrated a 120-in. rear-projection TV set that calls for a 6 1/2-ft. space to be cleared out behind a wall before...
Meith said the new lanes will surround several of the nearby ponds "making them totally useless to anyone" and lead to an increase in "the accumulation of oil and gas in Alewife Brook" because of highway run-off. She said this new pollution follows $140,000 from the MDC to clean up Alewife Brook...
This week the family will direct its plea to the U.S. Supreme Court, and for the first time draw the nation's highest court into the murky legal and ethical seas that surround the notion of a right to die. What the Justices decide will directly affect Cruzan. It will also set some legal boundaries for addressing the plight of the 10,000 other people in the U.S. lingering in a persistent vegetative state. Ultimately, the ruling could have an impact on the 7 out of 10 Americans who can someday expect to confront questions of life-sustaining medical care...