The new HT702TN “flat home theater” speaker / player combo from LG has a plenty to love. Not only is the 5.3 action kind of neato, with that extra woofer in the front speaker, but the DVD box includes HDMI, with 480p, 720p, 1080i upsampling and other such good times. The player also supports DivX video and DVD-AUDIO playback, so this shiny setup should keep you plenty entertained for a budget unit. Of course, since we don't have any price or availability deets, we're not exactly sure how budgetary, or if this is due for the States or anything exciting as that, but them's the breaks….

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UK company CrystalRoc which has come to be recognised for its luxurious, sublimely elegant, and highly original take on customisation, is launching a line of Sennheiser luxury headphones and earphones that have been given the brand’s exclusive treatment.

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Offering remarkable value, the 3808 is the second in Denon’s new 08 range and shares many of the key features of the £2000 AVR-4308.

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Joining the growing array of recent acquisitions is Planar and Runco International, as just today Planar has written a check for $36.7 million to take on the assets of privately-held Runco International, Inc. Planar, while not a household name in the home theater biz, managed to hold its own amongst competitors in the HT market, and while the majority of its products catered to the mid-range consumer, we suspect that picking up Runco was the easiest way to launch into the high-end realm. As expected, it looks like the Planar, Runco, and Vidikron brand names will remain as they are, and just as…

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Yamaha’s Soavo-1 has been named European Floor-Standing Speaker 2007-2008 by EISA. Noting that it has an extremely elegant & stylish look the EISA jury praised the speaker’s extremely high level of performance and an authentically “Natural Sound” in the Yamaha tradition.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released sales numbers for the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray Disc release in the US. First week sales of the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray Disc, reached 130,000, which surpasses Casino Royale, the previous best seller for Sony.

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Yeah, that satellite is freaky small and just a part of Sony's micro DAV-IS10 home theater system. Their 5.1 channel home-theater-in-a-box features 5 of the tiny speakers matched with a sub offering 450 watts of total system power (satellite speakers 50W x 5, plus 2-way subwoofer 100W x 2). The system features Sony's new BRAVIA Theater Sync technology for communicating with BRAVIA panels over HDMI and should be easy to setup with the help of Sony's Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (DCAC) optimization tech. The systems' 720p/1080i upscaling DVD/CD player features touch-sensitive controls and a D…

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DivX and LG Electronics have launched DivX-certified Time Machine TV Series both in Plasma and LCD models.

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Onkyo has unveiled a superb new one-box 2.1-channel Universal DVD Receiver/Speaker system, the LS-V501.

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We'll forgive JVC for giving its latest home theater system a name that could only have come from a Saturday Night Live spoof commercial, because in a product category that has become boring and predictable, the Sophisti DD-3 (not to be confused with the DD-1 or DD-8) offers up some refreshing and much appreciated features. Most significantly, the 220-watt DD-3 sports an Ethernet jack for streaming content from a single PC, or if you hook up a wired or wireless router, multiple machines throughout the house. You're also getting simulated surround from the 3.1 setup (two fronts, a center, and a…

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