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Audio Video Revolution Monthly Contest This month, one lucky Audio Video Revolution Reader will win a Meridian G98 DVD-Audio Transport. The G98 DVD-Audio transport plays audio CDs, MP3 CDs, Video CDs, DVD-Video,and DVD-Audio discs. It can decode Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, MP3, and MLP data streams to PCM for stereo playback. And it can output Dolby Digital, DTS, and MPEG bitstreams for connection to a surround controller. Enter to Win a Meridian G98 DVD-Audio Transport! http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest RevolutionHomeTheater Monthly Contest Enter to Win A Qsonix Q100 Digital Music System! http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest AVRev.com Lead Story Universal Players For Blu-ray and HD-DVD? Samsung Says "Yes" Internet reports say Samsung will be the first to market with a "universal" player that will be able to play both pending HDTV disc formats HD-DVD and Blu-ray. The first "universal" players came on the market during the lose-lose format battle between DVD-Audio and SACD. Prices and release dates for the new players aren't readily available but might become public after the upcoming CEDIA trade show. Consumers simply do not want a format war yet the two HD disc camps can not seem to ink a deal to join forces on one disc format. Sony, who backs Blu-ray, has an impressive list of supporters for the format including most major Hollywood studios, a host of Silicon Valley computer companies and at least half of the major record labels. HD-DVD has its supporters but is reeling now with a delay to its launch. Rumors have Blu-ray discs and players in stores for the Holiday selling season... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/08.dualplayer.html There's a real BOB behind every Sunfire product. Unlike huge faceless corporations, Sunfire is the unique, personal vision of one audio genius, Bob Carver. Most audio geniuses would be content to have founded just two landmark audio companies. But after creating Phase Linear and Carver Corporation, Bob still had more innovative technology in his system. He wanted to express these ideas in meticulously-built, premium audio products that would offer exceptional value and sound quality. And that's what you get when you buy Sunfire. A great product from the mind and soul of Bob Carver. Click below for more details... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/sunfire.html Congratulations! David Fox of Ohio won a 3.1 LCR Speaker System from RBH Sound last month... Clear and Compelling Video from DVDO The DVDO iScan HD+is a high resolution video scaling processor and A/V switcher that sets a new standard for up-converting, cross-converting and even down-converting all your video sources. The iScan HD+ will scale the output of your standard definition sources (480i, 480p, 576i, 576p) such as DVD player, Set-top-box and VCR, to perfectly match the optimum resolution of your display - 720p, 1080i, or any user-defined resolution up to 1080p. iScan HD+ is HDCP compliant and supports scaling of HD sources (720p, 1080i) over DVI. The iScan HD+ functions as your complete A/V hub, providing simultaneous audio/video switching with automatic video upconversion/processing. Click here to learn more about the DVDO iScan HD+... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/dvdo.html More AVRev.com News HD-DVD's Launch To Be Delayed? - PCWorld.com is reporting that Toshiba, the company most pushing for success of the HD-DVD video disc format, has said they plan to delay the U.S. consumer launch of the product. This news comes as the competing HDTV disc format, Blu-ray, gains Hollywood and Silicon Valley momentum. Just last week, talks broke off between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray camps that would merge the formats or at least create a unified group to support the long awaited HD format.... Click here for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/01.hddvddelay.html Multi-Room Entertainment Solutions from Linn - Linn is presenting its latest multi-room entertainment solutions at this year's CEDIA Expo. The items being shown include the Komponent, Chakra and Exotik+DA with the Kompenent, a loudspeaker system, as the main attraction.. Click here for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/06.linn.html XM-Ready Receivers from Integra - With CEDIA right around the corner several companies are getting ready to launch their newest products. Integra for one is introducing four new XM-ready home theater receivers. The DTR-7.6 with 105 watts x 7 channels and the DTR-6.6 with 100 watts x 7 channels are both THX Select2 certified. The DTR-5.6 outputs 90 watts x 7 channels with the DTR-4.6 doing 90 watts x 5 channels... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/07.integraxm.html Anthony Gallo Acoustic's Ti Series Loudspeakers - The A'Diva Ti and the Nucleus Micro Ti are the latest titanium-based additions to Gallo's A'Diva and Nucleus product lines. The loudspeakers are based on a proprietary driver developed for the company's Nucleus Reference 3... Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0905/06.galloti.html Like what you read? Want to say something about it? Join the AudioVideoRevolution discussion group at Yahoo.com today! Click below to join the all new AudioVideoRevolution discussion group... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/audiovideorevolution/ Welcome to Rotel... Exceptional Sound. No Exceptions! Rotel manufactures some of the best value electronics available today. From home theater components to two channel stereo to custom installation products, our more than 40 years experience combined with our Balanced Design engineering philosophy allow us to produce outstanding quality products at very affordable prices. Don't take our word for it though. Visit our web site and see what audio critics from around the world say about Rotel. Then, go see your authorized Rotel dealer for a demonstration. Click here to visit Rotel today... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/rotel.html AVRev.com Music Reviews Seal - Seal (DVD-Audio) Seal's 1991 debut album is paradoxically both chilled and warm at the same time. There is a lockstep-like precision to the album's instrumental elements, yet Seal's scratchy, yearning voice somehow softens the blunt force of this work's sonic onslaught. But to borrow the title for one of this CD's biggest hits, it's an odd combination that works in a "crazy" kind of a way. Maybe it's the Brit in him, but Seal doesn't fit into any of the usual nice, neat R&B categories. He's not a funk ringmaster, nor is he a come-hither lover man. He's closer to a musical philosopher. On the song "Crazy," for example, he sings about how hard it is to keep one's sanity during troubled times. Then in "Future Love Paradise," he emotes with a Bob Marley-like hope for the future. For comparison's sake, Seal is like a more mainstream Prince, yet a less overtly commercial Lenny Kravitz. He's topical without being preachy. He's passionate without getting all blubbery. Little is known about him, while at the same time, he's not really very mystical. But like Sade, it's difficult not to have a soft spot for this man, who is a category unto himself. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/music/revs/seal.shtml PurePower: Your System Will Sound Like It Does at Midnight, 24/7 A recent test report on the PurePower 1050 began by reminding audiophiles that their systems have always sounded their best at midnight. Why? At that hour, the local power utility is delivering its cleanest, most accurate power. At midnight, the current flows and system dynamics can be reached that at other hours of the day are impossible. Until now. PurePower is the first and only power conditioner in the world that takes the inbound AC power from the utility, converts it to DC, then back to perfect voltage sinewave with no noise, distortion, spikes, or sags, even if the inbound voltage is ZERO. Its built-in batteries protect and isolate your system from the local utility in a way that no other conditioner can, giving you that "midnight" sound quality every time you listen, regardless of the time of day. 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