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Cut It Out! Cut-outs in the door al- low use of remotes and changing of tapes, discs or surround modes without hassle. building and improving my system. And took the big step and purchased a 46- when I was satisfied with the compo- nents, I designed custom cabinetry to inch rear-projection set —Sony’s accommodate them. The result is a sys- tem that looks and performs like a cus- KPR-46EX35, one of the winners of Video tom-installed dream home theater, at a Magazine's Sept. ’91 “Clash of the Ti- fraction of the cost. It even silenced my wife’s constant cry to not see any more tans” big-screen shootout. The picture wires! In this article, I’ll tell you how I designed the system, explain how I got it was great, but the Sony has a single built and confess a few minor mistakes I made along the way. S-video input, which meant I’d need a Since I bought my first NEC 27-inch an S-VHS VCR (an NEC which came switcher if Iwanted to use S-video from TV about six years ago, I worked toward with a free surround-sound amp) well both the VCR and the laserdisc player. my final goa! with each new component before I was ready to buy a TV with Also, replacing a 27-inch monitor with a I bought. When I purchased a new com- S-video inputs. Buying the components 46-inch one created a theater-like feel- ponent, I considered expandability as one at a time didn’t put too much strain ing. But at a viewing distance of only well as function. For example, I bought on my budget. I was building towards a eight feet, several family members com- fully integrated system, but I got imme- plained that the TV was too close. diate use out of each purchase. My surround-sound amp didn't offer Once I got my laserdisc player, a 27- Dolby Pro-Logic, so I decided to step up inch monitor didn’t seem very big, so I to a real A/V receiver, one that could also function as an S-video switcher. Many of the A/V receivers I considered offered top sound specs, but a careful check revealed surprisingly few receivers with ample S-video connections. I set- tled on the Denon AVR-3000, which has four S-video inputs and three S-vid- Before & After: eo outputs. At left, the origi- Since it was now time to buy a cen- nal layout, with ter speaker, I decided to replace the the TV too close front speakers to keep a matched set and no space for good sur- across the front. The KEF reference se- round speaker ties speakers I chose sound great and placement. Be- low, the sol- have enough range that I can get by ution: Move the without a subwoofer. TV to the far wall and put When building a home theater, cabinets behind there’s more to consider than just hard- ware, though. As my video collection grew to more than 500 tapes and 50 la- the couch. serdiscs, storage became a problem. I couldn’t find shelves or cabinets that could provide enough storage and fit in with the room’s size and decor. I didn’t want to spend a great deal of money on shelves or wall units, and was especially leery of built-in cabinets, since I was al- ways changing parts of the system. With the addition of the KEFs and the Denon receiver, I had an excellent system, so I began to investigate ways to physically integrate the components and redesign the room to take full advantage of the existing parts and still allow for future changes. Could I move the entire system to the far end of the room without increas- ing the viewing distance so much it would offset the advantages of having a large screen? How could I hide all the cables and wires? Was there power on Larry White is technical editor of Popular Photography magazine. APRIL 1994 VIDEO 49

the A/V components in a cart so I could I wanted to keep my turntable in the system, so it had to occupy the top of easily roll them away from the wall for the cart with room for its flip-up dust cover. I specified plenty of breathing wiring. I allowed 21 inches (19 for the room for the components and an open hardware, plus 2 for side walls and back for easy wiring. I connected the an- gled cabinet and the side piece with a breathing room) for the width and few shelves, then brought the completed plans to a local custom mica furniture placed the cart next to the TV. maker, Picini Mica Furniture in Suffern, I also decided to use as much of the New York (914-357-3563). room’s width as possible for a stack of I explained all my design criteria and tightly spaced videotape storage draw- let Picini Mica tell me what it could ers. By basing the drawers’ depth on the make to fit my needs. It’s best to let the furniture maker make the final plans that wall? How could I get behind the TV, I would be able to get three rows of based on its actual manufacturing capa- shelves to connect the wires to the com- tapes into each drawer. I figured that bilities, but make sure that you go over ponents? To get the answers, I turned to drawers about 36 inches across should my Amiga computer and a computer- hold about 100 tapes each, depending on every minute detail before you give the aided design (CAD) program called actual dimensions and clearances. If I could pack six or seven drawers into a okay to start building. Draw 2000. In the Picini showroom, I saw some I started by drawing the actual room space as high as the TV, I should be able as viewed from the top. I then added the to house my whole tape collection and cabinets with cutouts for A/V compo- furniture and each of my components in then some. And ifIneeded more space, nents and asked if I could have this con- their existing positions. Using the com- there would always be the storage cabi- cept adapted as a front door to my cart. Each cutout would be expensive — about puter, I electronically rearranged the nets behind the couch. $60 —so I decided to add them only for Two more con- the VCR, the laserdisc player and the room many times to siderations pre- A/V receiver. The other hardware find the best way to ] iI sented themselves would be hidden behind a second, lower accommodate all in this top view. The the pieces. door. If Ichanged components in the fu- wall is at the bottom ture, I would at most need a new door, a Moving the TV | small sacrifice for such a sleek, built-in of a staircase, and a look. I also decided to add a false bot- to the far wall and | tom to one of the storage chests, so that deep wall unit it would be easy to retrieve record al- turning the modu- | bums or laserdiscs. The full custom unit would have looked would cost less than $4,000 plus another lar couch seemed | $1,000 for the chests, and would be sur- very intrusive as one faced with a marble-patterned laminate. like the best physi- | entered the room. Picini Mica told me it would take cal approach, but it about three months to build the unit, so Angling a side cabi- I began on the wiring. Since the wiring would almost dou- net would provide would be somewhat permanent, I de- ble the viewing dis- | cided to use Monster speaker cables, the needed depth heavy-duty audio and video intercon- tance (from eight | nects and high-grade S-video cables. | with a neater look. purchased the cables and hooked up the feet to 15). This | equipment in the existing location to On the opposite test everything. Although the wiring would severely limit | cost a few hundred dollars, this is not a end, all the wiring the effective screen | place to skimp on the system. from the wall to the A few weeks before the unit’s deliv- size, which de- cart would be visi- ery date I began to move everything to creases with the | the new location. I snaked RF cables ble, providing an along a heating duct, and stapled cables square of the dis- | and wires flat against the wall and mold- ugly mess when ings. RF splitters and a video distribu- tance. Also, this | tion amp were attached to the wall viewed from the behind the spot the TV would go. (I scheme might pose needed these because my Panasonic PV- side. If I added a S4366 VCR has only one video out—1 a wiring problem, | wanted one for the A/V receiver, and side panel, the wires one for the TV, so that I wouldn’t have with additional to turn on the entire system to watch would be hidden, every tape, or to use the VCR's onscreen length required and and the unit would programming). a lack of hiding I made sure that the cables had ex- have a unified look. places, since the ca- Wrap It Up: Using lots of cable ties helped the au- tra length where they came off the wall ble TV connection thor keep a messy tangle of wires under control. Now to the to connect with the equipment. I la- comes in from the front view. Again, I opposite side of the room (as do the con- started with the TV. I added the storage drawers as a separate cabinet, making nections to and from the gear in my the drawers just deeper than the side of home office). a videotape (about 4-1/2 inches) and then allowing some clearance for drawer After some experimentation, I found that moving the couch out from the wall would not only shorten the viewing dis- hardware. I decided to make the bottom tance, but would provide more physical two drawers deeper (six inches) to hold separation for the rear surround-sound CDs and any odd-sized videotapes that speakers—an idea well worth pursuing. came in larger packaging. Designing the cart was slightly more By building some storage chests to go be- hind the couch, I could move it out complicated. Those components which about two feet and add enough storage use remote control (the VCR, the laser- space for hundreds of tapes or laserdiscs. disc player and the A/V receiver) should be placed high for a clear line of sight. This decided, I turned my attention to Those which were used infrequentl—ya the far wall. dual cassette deck, a cable box (used The projection TV is the center of only for pay channels), and a Radio Shack RF switcher—could occupy less- the project in many ways, so I started convenient places near the bottom. there, positioning the TV in the center of the wall. I decided to stack most of 50 VIDEO APRIL 1994

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FEATURE FILMS epic proportions, all done in a manner Much Ado About that we suspect D.W. Griffith would Gettysburg have approved. The performances are Nothing all superb, save that of Martin Sheen, 1993. Tom Berenger, Sam Elliott, Jeff Dan- who seems stiff and awkward as Robert 1993. Emma Thompson, Denzel Washing- iels, Martin Sheen; dir. Ronald F. Maxwell. E. Lee. The battles are stunni—ntghis ton, Kenneth Branagh; dir. Branagh. Sur- Surround, cc, letterboxed. (PG) 254 min. movie will make one hell of a laserdisc. round, cc. (PG-13) Ill min. priced for priced for rental. Turner. rental. LD $34.98. Columbia TriStar. The film-to-tape transfer is radiant Having already surpassed David Sar- with its carefully photographed natural Anyone deterred by the prospect of noffs and William S. Paley’s achieve- light. Fleshtones are sometimes over- Shakespeare's 400-year-old language ments in television, Ted Turner has whelmed amid the movie’s splashes of should consider Much Ado About Noth- come up with Gettysburg, an epic of the color, but for VHS this is still very fine ing a predecessor to The Big Chill. That's War Between the States to rival the big- work. The sound is crisp and the battles how director/star Kenneth Branagh ap- screen film work of David O. Selznick, fairly boom, even over television speak- proached the Bard’s merry tale of ro- Darryl F. Zanuck and D.W. Griffith. ers. —Bruce Eder mantic confusion in the groves of This four-hour-plus epic tells its story Tuscany, creating the same breezy en- more movingly and coherently than Culture Club: | semble feel he brought to Peter's Friends. Gone With The Wind (though with a lot Here, the lighthearted vibes, combined less romance), rivaling instead The Keanu Reeves does with an impressive cast, result in superi- Longest Day for delicacy of nuance and Shakespeare in Much or froth that deserves exposure beyond unbridled excitement. Ado About Nothing. the usual art-film audience. Gettysburg is a rousing, saddening, The plot smacks of sitcom cuteness: fascinating dramatization of one of the Dashing young Claudio (Robert Sean most renowned battles in history. Its fo- Leonard) has won the heart of sweet cus on men and events is tight and Hero (Kate Beckinsale). To fill the close-up though within a framework of hours before their wedding, Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) cooks up a scheme to make sharp-tongued antago- 52 VIDEO APRIL 1994

EDITOR'S CHOICE | tee kenneth korman nists Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice In the equally daunting task of rec- Special edition laserdiscs can present all kinds of production problems, but (Emma Thompson) fall for each other. teating Tina's sassy stage act, Bassett it’s hard to imagine a bigger challenge Meanwhile, moody Don John (Keanu nails her moves in an exciting display of than John Waters’ 1982 trash classic ™ Reeves) hatches his own, more sinister, big screen karaoke. Still, when her last plot, intended to drive Claudio and scene gives way to a concert segment Polyester (Cri- *y Hero apart. Will love triumph? You bet! starring the lady herself, the film finds terion, $54.95)... The adaptation isn’t wholly success- real closure. ful, since the story’s twists, especially the —Marianne Meyer Polyester was the first and only film union of Benedick and Beatrice, seem King of the Hill presented in Odorama: Cus- & totally unconvincing on film. Still, all tom-made scratch » the actors, including Michael Keaton as 1993. Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbe; wr./ 'n’ sniff cards were dir. Steven Soderbergh. Surround, cc. distributed at the- a slovenly constable, appear to be hav- (PG-13) 103 min. priced for rental. LD let- atrical showings, ing terrific fun, which makes Much Ado terboxed $34.98. MCA/Universal. and when flashing About Nothing a perfectly reasonable numbers appeared on screen, audi- The emerging common thread in the way to kill time. —Jon Young ences took the cue and actually work of Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and smelled the movie. Almost 14 years What’s Love Got later, the question was how to re-cre- videotape) is the protagonist who reaches ate this experience in the home, using laserdisc. to Do With It deep inside to change his or her life. Few Disc producer Mark Rance could reach further than Aaron searched far and wide for the pre- 1993. Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne; Kurlander, the 12-year-old hero of King cious Odorama cards (each of which dir. Brian Gibson. Surround, cc. (R) 128 of the Hill. carries 10 distinct, numbered aro- min. priced for rental. Touchstone. mas), but none remained from the Aaron's world is St. Louis, 1933, with film’s theatrical run. Word came of a Forget Lorena Bobbitt. In this musi- the Depression in full swing. His family former distributor of the film in Ger- cal biopic of her tumultuous marriage is stuck in a seedy hotel and behind on many who had put thousands of the to a Svengali named Ike, Tina Turner the rent. He scrambles to make a few cards in storage, but he had recently gets the best revenge—two uncontested bucks, and tells tall stories to the rich thrown them away —after 10 years hours stating her case against the Hus- kids in school to cover the truth. But the coatings had started to deterio- band From Hell. rate, causing a malodorous public one by one, everyone in his li—ffameily, nuisance. The cost of re-creating the Beginning with the opening se- neighbors, frie— dnisadppsears until he cards seemed prohibitive for a limited quence—a sharecropper’s daughter is is alone in his room, determined to re- laserdisc release, but Rance worked tossed out of choir practice for having make his world through sheer will. out a special deal with manufacturer too much shimmy in her soul—subtlety 3M. To cut costs, Criterion threw a Soderbergh’s presentation is richly party at which dozens of friends and is not a major concern. After young detailed, and shot in burnished tones. employees spent seven hours putting Anna Mae 50,000 aromatic stickers onto 5,000 Bullock heads For all that, rectangular cards. That, in a word, is the picture is dedication. (As a secret bonus, the to the big city “Director Approved” sticker on the neither senti- disc’s shrink-wrapped front cover also and becomes works as a scratch ’n’ sniff. Try it next the vocal focal mental nor time you're at the video store.) nostalgic. The point of Ike’s incidents and The resulting package is well worth all this trouble. As he explains Kings) of characters sug- on Polyester's hilarious analog-track commentary, Waters drew much in- Riivieh mm, gest a cross be- spiration for his wicked parody of events are awk- tween Dickens suburban America from the critics, who have often said that Waters’ ear- wardly tele- and Mark scoped to make Twain, with a ly shockfests, like Pink Flamingos, stink. With the Polyester laserdisc, room for two modern ironic Waters proves his critics didn’t know the half of it—and that there’s nothing recurring mo- sensibility; a quite like the sweet smell of success. = running joke is tifs: lovingly re- the lovingly constructed, dynamic on- photographed stage perfor- * food that the mances, and Hit & Run: Fishburne and Bassett as Ike and Tina Turner. starving Aaron brutal scenes of offstage abuse. never gets to eat. Though formula fuels the script, the The most remarkable thing on view, performances are rewarding and risky. In however, is Jesse Bradford, who brings a thankless role, Fishburne’s extraordin- Aaron’s soul and spirit whole to the ary achievement is in making Ike a be- screen from first to last. At the end we lievable monster —talented, ambitious, can see in his face both the depth of his self-destructive, trapped in his own triumph and its emotional cost. King of R&B version of A Star is Born. Consider- the Hill stands comparison with the best ing he’s costumed like Link from Mod movies about childhood ever made. Squad, it’s an act of sheer willpower. —Sol Louis Siegel APRIL 1994 VIDEO 53

rr Demolition Man Ladies’ Night: 1992. Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, The Joy Luck Club chronicles four genera- Sandra Bullock; dir. Marco Bambrillo. Sur- tions of women in an round, cc. (R) 115 min. priced for rental. immigrant Chinese LD letterboxed $34.98. Warner. family. They've finally found a way to make Sylvester Stallone funny on purpose: Stick his standard action persona into a fantasy world that he can make look ri- diculous before it does the same to him. He’s John Spartan, a 1996 cop thawed from cryogenic freezing in 2032 San An- geles (don’t ask), the fiefdom of a pain- The Joy Luck Club fully benevolent Big Brother, where Manhattan Murder poltical correctness and clean living are Mystery 1993. Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu; dir. the order of the day. Stallone gives some | 1993. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Wayne Wang. Surround, cc. (R) 136 min. | Kick in the Pants: Wesley Snipes is hammy time- Alda, Angelica Huston; dir. Allen. Sur- priced for rental. Hollywood Pictures. | traveling bad guy Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man. round, cc. (PG) 107 min. priced for rental. LD $34.98. Columbia TriStar. The “joy luck club” is a nickname | amusing reactions before going out to assumed by four women, all immigrants reduce the scenery to a richly deserved No one can beat Woody Allen for from mainland China, who meet once a shambles. throwaway one-liners: “I can’t listen to week to play Mah Jongg and lend each that much Wagner. You know, I start to He gets lot of help from Wesley get the urge to conquer Poland.” And other a little support. Snipes, who plays Simon Phoenix (all Manhattan Murder Mystery, his long- This group is used as a jumping-off the character names are jokes), the overdue reunion with co-star Diane psycho crime lord Spartan has been Keaton and co-screenwriter Marshall point by writer Amy Tan (adapting her brought back to take down. Phoenix is Brickman is full of delightful one-liners. own novel with the help of star script- over-the-top evil throughout, and (She: “We could be living next door to a Snipes consistently demonstrates how writer Ron Bass) to explore four genera- much fun it can be to watch a really murderer.” He: “Well, New York is a tions of Chinese women: the women of good actor ham it up. melting pot.”) Above and beyond the the group; the mothers who represent gags, there’s the wonderful re-teaming of the repressive lives they left behind in The script is reasonably clever, the one of the screen’s great kooky, romantic China; their adult daughters, raised as pairs, Allen and Keaton, who haven't Americans but with two cultures; and been this funny alone or together since their heyday in Annie Hall. the next generation, the culmination of hopes carried from half a world away. The story itself isn’t much—a mix- master version of Rear Window with The Joy Luck Club would be a major Keaton in the James Stewart role as the accomplishment for director Wayne woman who suspects her neighbor of Wang (Chan is Missing) simply for the murder—but Allen uses the tale as an deceptive ease with which he inter- excuse for a delightful exploration of weaves more than a dozen different sto- characters coming to terms with stodgy ries, all in enough detail to make us feel middle age. (‘‘He thinks of himself as we've come to know these characters. Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. I see him more as Peter Lorre.”) Jealousy, in- But in every way this is a big, perfectly security, sex and other favorite Allen realized film, superbly acted by a cast of themes are lightly touched on, but the top Asian performers. Mixing humor, history, pathos and melodrama in a handsome production (partly filmed in China), The Joy Luck Club is a rich, emotionally satisfying movie. —MF supporting cast good and the effects point of the movie is refreshingly simple: convincing. Oddly, the picture some- | Fun will keep you young. And if nothing Mr. Wonderful else, Manhattan times falls short in the g Murder Mystery is 1993. Matt Dillon, Annabella Scjorra, action sequences, which fun. Mary-Louise Parker; dir. Anthony Min- tend to be choppy and —Tom Soter ghella. Surround, cc. (PG-13) 99 min. over-edited. Stallone J priced for rental. LD $34.98. Warner. and Snipes make up for Call of Duty: that shortcoming in ] Woody Allen reunites “There are three sides to every sto- with Diane Keaton to ty,” observes a sideline character in Mr. what is, in the end, a vi- ff solve a Manhattan Wonderful, “his, hers and the truth.” All olent, expensive and en- | Murder Mystery. three get equal time in this enchanting tertaining B-movie. romantic comedy that stands up firmly —Sol Louis Siegel |@ 54 VIDEO APRIL 1994

STUDIO CLASSIC for tradition. Culkin uses the same mannerisms and ANNAYKINGeSIAM Gus (Matt Dillon) feels that divorce intonations (if not the energy) he dis- FIRST TIME ON VIDEO! has put his life on hold: While his ex- played in the two Home Alone movies. In this “magnificent spectacle” (Hollywood Reporter) that inspired wife Lee (Annabella Sciorra) uses his al- They couldn’t be more inappropriate. the musical hit The King and I, IRENE DUNNE stars as Anna, a imony payments for college tuition, the As in Sleeping with the Enemy, director strong-willed English widow who shows the stubborn King of Siam financial strain has stranded him in a job Joseph Ruben seems mote interested in (REX HARRISON) how to live in a modern world. he doesn’t much like and casts a shadow the seaside scenery than the actors, 1946 ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER! over his new romance with nurse Rita though one can hardly blame him given ¢ Best Art Direction these underwritten characters. The ¢ Best Cinematography (Mary-Louise Parker). His soluti—ofinnd Lee a new hus- screenplay is by acclaimed novelist Ian band —seems perfect at first. But as Gus McEwan, whom we can only assume is tries to figure out what his former high following Faulkner and Fitzgerald in the school sweetheart wants out of life, he time-honored tradition of ripping off starts taking a look at his own choices as Hollywood. —MF well. Red Rock West Mr. Wonderful ends up just where you expect it to go, but it takes a de- 1993. Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper; dir. John Dahl. Surround, cc. (R) 98 min. lightfully circuitous route to get there. priced for rental. Columbia TriStar. Along the way is a gallery of ingratiating Revealing any of the gleefully convo- luted plot of Red Rock West would de- characters, played to perfection by Wil- prive viewers of the substantial pleasure liam Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dan He- of discovering it for themselves. We can tell you that the title refers to a nowhere daya and Jessica Harper. Shooting town in Wyoming where unemployed- but-honest Michael (Nicolas Cage), exclusively on Manhattan locations, di- stranded after a bum job lead, gets mis- rector Anthony Minghella (Truly Madly taken for a hired killer and drawn into a feud between spouses J.T. Walsh and Deeply) makes even the underground Lara Flynn Boyle. Add a comparatively restrained but still meaty turn by cham- power systems where Con Ed electrician pion scene-stealer Dennis Hopper as snazzy dresser Lyle from Dallas, and the Gus works look enticing. It may be a stage is set for the most entertaining se- month late, but you couldn’t ask for a ties of double crosses since Blood Simple. better valentine of a movie. —MF Wittily written and stylishly directed by The Good Son John Dahl (Kill Me Again), Red Rock West is the kind of thriller where you 1993. Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood; dir. have no idea what’s Joseph Ruben. Stereo, cc. (R) 88 min. going to happen next —but can't priced for rental. FoxVideo. Shirley Temple aside, child stars Devil May Care: generally fade after a few movies, usually Macaulay Cu- as soon as they try to do something dif- Ikin gets to be ferent from whatever made them fa- really bad in mous to begin with. With this by-the- he Good Son. numbers thriller, 13-year-old Mac- aulay Culkin hits the downward slope. As a sociopathic bad seed trying to draw his cousin (Elijah Wood) into his world of evil, membership to the FoxVideo Movie Club LOOK FOR ONE OR MORE NEW STUDIO CLASSICS ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH. APRIL 1994 VIDEO 55

PVT ERDISCS lenced when an image is stilled, the seg- common thief recruited to impersonate the leader of a powerful clan after the Francois Truffaut: ment seems a waste of precious CAV tuler’s death. Totally unsuited for such 25 Years, 25 Films responsibility, this reluctant “double” space. The balance of the program, how- nevertheless grows into the part, under- 1993. Pr. Michael Kurfeld. Digital mono. going a transformation from petty crimi- (NR) 90 min. CAV side 1 $39.98. Crite- ever, features a wealth of archive mate- nal to revered chief. Eventually he is rion. exposed and betrayed by jealous forces tial accessible as single frames, including inside his own camp, with far-reaching While less than the comprehensive analysis its title implies, Criterion’s Fran- a number of rare photographs from the repercussions. cois Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films laserdisc collection of lifelong Truffaut confidant adds several gems to the crown earned Ran (1985) uses Shakespeare’s King recently with the stunning restoration of Robert Lachenay. Lear as the starting point for a melodra- nine Truffaut titles. ma of betrayal and revenge. When the Francois Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films prosperous Lord Hidetora retires, he Split between CAV and CLV for- passes his kingdom to his three sons, mats, the latter portion (side 2) features may lack the scope of its title. But even only to see disaster ensue almost imme- the real treasures, especially a brilliant diately: The offspring turn on each other | | transfer of Truffaut’s lyrical 1957 direc- the sum of half its parts will delight any in bloody conflict, and Hidetora, who torial debut, the 17-minutes Les Mistons. must confront the effects of his own cru- Rawer but more revealing of Truffaut's Truffaut admirer. —John Walker elty years before, eventually goes mad. promise is Jean-Pierre Leaud’s audition for The 400 Blows, a brief interview in Kagemusha With their breathtaking pageantry which Leaud answers questions posed by (The Shadow Warrior) and colorful battle scenes, both films the off-camera director—a prototype for work extremely well in letterbox format the “psychiatrist” sequence which cli- 1980. Tatsuya Nakadai; dir. Akira on disc. But most striking is the way maxed the subsequent feature. The bal- Kurosawa. Digital mono, letterboxed. (PG) both editions capture the details of Tat- ance of the CLV side features a limited 160 min. CLV 3 sides $69.98. FoxVideo. suya Nakadai’s expressive face —as the compilation of theatrical trailers, an ap- anguished humanity at the center of cat- preciation by Steven Spielberg and actor Ran aclysmic events, he’s a poignant, haunt- Bob Balaban of Truffaut’s dramatic con- tribution to Close Encounters of the Third 1985. Tatsuya Nakadai; dir. Akira ing presence. Kind, and excerpts from 10 Ans, 10 Films Kurosawa. Digital mono, letterboxed. (R) and Apostrophes: Les Grands Metteurs en 160 min. CLV 3 sides $69.98. FoxVideo. Menace II Society Scene, a pair of French television docu- mentaries about the director. In general, While they won’t make anyone for- 1993. Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate; dir. Allen audio may be accessed in either French get such masterworks as Seven Samurai and Albert Hughes. Digital surround, let- or English. and Rashomon, Kagemusha (The Shadow terboxed. (R) 104 min. plus supplement. Warrior) and Ran, later efforts from Ja- CLV/CAV 4 sides $99.95. Criterion. The CAV portion features an un- pan’s great director Akira Kurosawa, characteristically bland (and, covering a make a fascinating double-feature, al- If a debut movie ever deserved the mere 13 titles, far from comprehensive) film analysis by Truffaut historian An- though a combined running time of five full Criterion treatment, it’s Menace II nette Insdorf. As the images utilized are hours plus will tax all but the hardiest Society. Twin brothers Allen and Albert quite common and the narrative si- viewers. Both are sweeping spectacles set in the 16th century, when warlords battled for control of the land, both star Tatsuya Nakadai and both portray a lone individual overwhelmed by events he cannot control. Kagemusha (1980) tells the story of a 56 VIDEO APRIL 1994

Defensive Driver: Suburban Everyman Dennis Weaver is pur- sued by the Truck Driver From Hell in Steven Spielberg's Duel, | rer é, Hughes’ relentless look at gangster life who fared better: Dirty Harry with “Do Mann (Dennis Weaver) on an isolated and death on the mean streets of Los you feel lucky today, punk?” or Popeye Angeles has a chilling resonance that Doyle with the more rhetorical “Did you desert highway. transcends limitations of genre, budget An existential B-movie, with the or inexperience. Like a Greek tragedy, pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?” car-culture man coming up against a the story of Caine (Tyrin Turner), a In the eyes of the critics, it was no nightmare foe —the unstoppable troubled young black man torn between contest: The French Connection won five the nihilistic violence of his gun-crazy Academy Awards, including Best Pic- truck—the tale shows Spielberg’s influ- ture, Best Director (William Friedkin), ences: Hitchcock by way of The Twilight ' buddy O-Dog (Larenz Tate) and the op- and Best Screenplay. Gene Hackman Zone (Zone scripter Richard Matheson portunity to escape with his girlfriend took Best Actor for his portrayal of Pop- even penned the screenplay for Duel). Ronnie (Jada Pinkett), moves with -eye Doyle, a cop who made Dirty Harry But the director handles the camera like dreadful inevitability toward the horrific an old pro, milking the thin plotline bril- conclusion. Throughout the film, friends and family warn Caine to change his look like Prince Charles. (Doyle and liantly with skewed angles, warped ways before it’s too late, to no avail. partner Cloudy Rus—sploayed by Roy Scheid—ewerre based on the real-life lenses, quick cutting and just enough Typically, Criterion has included a generous helping of extras, from sto- N.Y.P.D. detectives “Popeye” Egan and characterization to make the whole tyboards and deleted scenes to a student Sonny Grosso.) What truly distin- thing believable. The movie was Spiel- film and the brothers’ music videos. Un- guished The French Connection was its fortunately, the key element of the pack- unflinching portrayal of Doyle as vi- berg’s ticket to the big screen, too: rave age —the analog-track director cious and racist in the worst “old cop” commentary —should have been han- tradition—then putting him against the reviews, a 1973 European theatrical re- dled differently. Co-directors Allen and Albert Hughes receive separate chan- elegant (and almost likeable) heroin lease (adding 15 minutes of footage, in- nels, when they could have easily been kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). combined onto one. They're still in their cluded here), and a couple of awards led early twenties, and just don’t have much The rules for both cops and films to say yet. had changed by the time French Connec- to the director's first feature, The Sugar- tion II appeared in 1975. Directed by Still, revelations await the curious. John Frankenheimer, the sequel finds land Express. Duel may be pulp stuff, but Allen recalls clashes with the ratings Doyle in Marseilles, still pursuing Char- board over depicting exit wounds, and nier several years later. After a brief allu- it works remarkably well. —TS readily owns up to what he considers the sion to the real-life disappearance of the film's shortcomings, including the awk- heroin seized in the original bust, the The Commancheros ward love scene between Caine and story veers into pure fiction as Doyle is Ronnie. Albert, the technically oriented kidnapped by Charnier’s goons and 1961. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina half of the team, explains more than Balin; dir. Michael Curtiz. Digital stereo, turned into his own worst nightmare: a most people need to know about camera letterboxed. (NR) 107 min. $59.95. Fox- angles and tracking shots, citing Scor- junkie. The dynamics of French Connec- Video. sese as an inspiration so often he ends up tion II show promise as Popeye’s French joking about it. counterpart Barthelemy (Bernard The Commancheros is not well re- Fresson) is appalled by his demeanor, Admirers of the Hughes Brothers’ shouting “What do you know about membered, and with good reason— unsparing vision will understand why Marseilles? You think it’s Harlem, just compared with many other John Wayne Criterion undertook the project, even if kicking Blacks around the street?!” But the end result was flawed. Those who by the end Doyle has virtually won them movies, it seems flabby and awkward, over with his “Dirty Popeye” tactics. No veering uncomfortably between grim se- Oscars here. tiousness and jokey cheerfulness. More- over, it dates from a time when its star was beginning to slip into self-parody— not yet at the level seen later in McLin- tock!, but getting there. Elmer Berns- tein’s relentlessly upbeat score, in particular, fits neither the star nor the story, which involves a Texas Ranger hunting a gang of gunrunners. But con- haven’t caught Menance II Society yet sidering that director Michael Curtiz should do so, whether through this spar- was working so slowly on this film that Duel Wayne had to take over his duties, kling disc transfer or on tape. —JY 1971/1973. Dennis Weaver; dir. Steven Spielberg. Digital mono, cc. (PG) 90 min. we're probably getting off easy. CLV 2 sides $34.98. MCA/Universal. The letterboxed transfer is splendid, The French Connection/ Before the imposing dinosaurs of Ju- crisp, clean and bright, with perfect French Connection II rassic Park or the cute alien in E.T., there was Duel, director Steven Spiel- fleshtones. The disc also features sec- ondary-audio interviews with co-stars 1971/1975. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey; berg’s first feature-length film. Shot in 16 Stuart Whitman, Michael Ansara, Pat- dir. William Friedkin (Connection), John days in Calitornia’s Soledad Canyon, the tick Wayne and Nehemiah Persoff, but their recollections are neither well edit- Frankenheimer (Connection II). Digital $450,000 TV-movie shows Spielberg at mono. (R) 213 min. CLV 4 sides $69.98. his stripped-down best: 90 minutes of ed nor scene specific.. FoxVideo. well-cratted suspense as an everyman Only John Wayne completists will tegard The Commancheros as a must- They say that good police work is all hero confronts a deadly killer. The nov- about asking the right questions...or is it elty is that the villain is an unseen truck own disc. Fox would do much better to having the right catch-phrase? Someone driver, who for reasons unknown is try- work on such neglected titles as The should check the blotter for 1971 to see ing to kill suburban commuter David Bravados, Night People and Between Heaven and Hell. —Bruce Eder i APRIL 1994 VIDEO 57

ieee al Ties That Bind: Director Carl Franklin's Laurel Avenue explores the tangled lives of a large, extended family. the success of Laurel Avenue is not about lect. The episode of Blunt's encounter avoiding issues or tweaking expecta- tions. What makes Laurel Avenue with the Queen (Prunella Scales) is deft unique is Carl Franklin’s ability to syner- gize conflict rather than contrive it. and hilarious. —John Walker You're not going to find many better An Englishman Abroad examples than these of what good actors and directors can do with material scripted by someone who can actually write. —Sol Louis Siegel 1983. Alan Bates, Coral Browne; dir. John Schlesinger. Mono. (NR) 61 min. $19.98. FoxVideo. A Question of Attribution Really Wild Animals 1991. James Fox, David Calder; dir. John 1994. “Swinging Safari,” “Wonders Down Under,” “Deep Sea Dive.” Stereo, cc. (NR) Schlesinger. Mono. (NR) 71 min. $19.98. 45 min. each. $14.95 each. National Geo- FoxVideo. graphic. These short BBC features about real- It's such a great idea, the only real life Britons who spied for the Soviet Union, both written by Alan Bennett surprise is that they didn’t do it sooner. and directed by John Schlesinger, are National Geographic has dipped into its smashing television. An Englishman huge library of amazing animal footage Peli diaith Abroad is particularly good. It chronicles and put together an expertly appealing the 1958 meeting in Moscow between trio of tapes aimed at goosing the curi- actress Coral Browne (playing herself) osity of the littlest explorers. (They and Guy Burgess, living there in exile. claim to be skewing to ages four to eight, Laurel Avenue Burgess prevails upon her to help him but easily could have added a year or i| 1993. Mary Alice, Mel Winkler; dir. Carl obtain a new wardrobe from his old Lon- two on either end.) | Franklin. Surround, cc. (NR) 160 min. don tailors; out of humanity and pity, True to the Nat Geo name, syn- priced for rental. HBO. she does so. Alan Bates reveals a com- ii plex character beneath his messy, eccen- onymous with classy “edutainment,” the On paper, the concept of a filmmak- tric English exterior. Browne is quite series offers stunning photography, alone i || good at the comedy of English manners worth the price of admission. But just to er as talented as Carl Franklin following and Cold War paranoia that Bennett ensure snagging the tykes, it’s combined | the gritty triumph of One False Move and Schlesinger have turned her narra- here with zippy graphics and fast-paced !| with a made-for-cable mini-soap seems tive into. This meditation on nationality the stuff of lather itself. On screen, the edits; an animated host, voiced by a reality of Laurel Avenue is evidence that boisterous Dudley Moore; and musical Franklin has not simply triumphed and identity, done in telling short segments set to catchy tunes that could nestle comfortably on Top 40 radio. The | again, but with writers Paul Aaron and strokes, is simply a must see. Sir Anthony Blunt, master of the writing, full of easily-absorbed factoids | Michael Henry Brown, possibly set a Queen’s pictures, was in the same es- from the “Oh-wow!” school, also en- | new standard for television drama. Laurel Avenue covers a single week- pionage ting as Burgess but wasn’t ex- gages kids of all ages with clever comic twists, like a traffic end in the lives of the Arnett family. At posed until years report on elephant first glance, the characters seem overly later. A Question of migration. familiar. But despite some musty perso- Attribution concen- As you've proba- nae —like humorless matriarch Maggie trates on a cat-and- | (Mary Alice) —the majority are agree- mouse game be- bly gleaned from the | ably deep. The extended family covers tween Blunt (James titles, this initial set three generations and samples every Fox) and the intel- focuses on the crea- success and failure available to the ligence functionary tures of Africa, Aus- Black middle class—and the bottom line (David Calder) as- tralia and the is that Maggie and husband Jake (Mel signed to make him world’s oceans. Each Winkler) haven’t got a clue when it either come clean offers particular comes to the complexities their children or face the conse- pleasures, but the have to deal with. As Laurel Avenue quences. While not cut-above songs of progresses, the classic family bond turns as richly entertain- “Swinging Safari’’ out to be a real tangle. ing as Englishman, would make it this By virtue of its St. Paul setting, Lau- this film’s word- reviewer's choice for rel Avenue avoids the visual cliches of play, on life, art, re- your initial intro- the N.Y./L.A. “inner city” axis, and, ex- ality, fraud and re- duction. But I bet cepting one minor subplot, race is vir- sponsibility make it you can’t just watch tually ignored as a source of conflict. But a feast for the intel- one! 58 VIDEO APRIL 1994

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ROD EVTEelcoRib NN Geto aUe PP ab) Meee i Bi: Just as its definition has evolved, | technology is < WaEy on a rapidly changing upward spiral. In fact, so rapidly are things mov- Bs ing in this market that many audio manufacturers now claim that Baa es home theater is now a bigger part of their business than their tradition- ar | al Hi-Fi base. Do you buy an A/V RE IR: without some sort Photo courtesy ofCEDIA “of SOLBY surround processing? Do you buy a television without the necessary inputs or without even considering the option of the wider 16X9 screens? Moreover, those sets are looking more attractive than ever, now that you're ready to attach them to a system that can match their with an equally big sound. The equipment options are numerous too, with manufacturers, in particular, gearing up to create full arrays with the traditional left and right stereo pair complemented by surrounds, | speakers and a SUBWOOFER to rumble the bass. What's hot in home theater this month? This Home Theater Update offers you a quick overview of @ how much is changing and how much you can now choose from when readying to INST the home theater system or your dreams.

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‘continued. from page 59 THN ON TRIAL And sounds generally don’t move smoothly from the front to the sur- tion of all-time great includes documentary continued from page 60 rounds —they just suddenly appear in Wind, Sand and Star —The Making of a the rear, making the effect less natural. Classic. Surround. (PG) 238 min. LD letter- lar, the Mirage center speaker pro- boxed $49.95. Columbia TriStar. duces very clear dialog. If voice The exception to this rule is the intelligibility is the be-all and end-all Mirage system with the Energy sur- Needful Things for you, THX is the way to go, but real- rounds. The nearly omnidirectional ize that you give up imaging to get that. dispersion of the main speakers, cou- 1993. Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie pled with the 90-degree dispersion of @ Timbre-matching. Where the THX the surround speakers, seems to make Bedelia, Amanda Plummer; dir. Fraser C. front speakers really excel is in their sounds panned from front to back Heston. More American Gothic adapted timbre-matching. Because the three blend better between the dissimilar speakers are identical, they sound the speakers. Really, the B&W 803/805 from the Stephen King best-seller. Should same (although positioning the center and Energy systems aren’t bad blends at least get year’s best trailer award. Stereo. speaker atop a TV makes it sound with their surround speakers, but they (R) 113 min. VHS priced for rental. LD slightly different). And the front speak- definitely sound a bit disjointed in di- $39.95. New Line. ers match well with the surrounds, too. rect comparison with THX systems. The M&K systems are the best exam- On the Waterfront ple of this. No matter if the THX front e Surround soundfield. Some high- speakers or the S-90s are used, the end speaker manufacturers have crit- 1954. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. soundfield is completely natural, and icized Lucasfilm’s dipolar surround sounds move around without notice- speaker approach, but we think it’s a Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint; dir. able changes in timbre. This is a big Elia Kazan. Three great supporting perfor- plus for movies. winner. However, you can get a similar mances, a great and quotable script, Kazan result by positioning two conventional at his best, great icy-sharp black and white With the non-THX systems, the speakers back-to-back in the rear of the photography, wonderfully intense score by sound — especially voices — changes no- room, or by positioning them at the Leonard Bernstein and maybe Brando's fin- ticeably as it moves among the front sides and aiming them at the upper rear est performance. The film got 8 Oscars but speakers, even though the front speak- corners of the room. Or you can use ers we used were pretty well-matched. non-THxX bipolar or dipolar speakers, Bernstein, Cobb, Steiger and Malden each like the Energy models. Any of these shoulda got one too. Mono. (NR) 108 min. approaches creates a diffuse surround LD $34.95. Columbia TriStar. soundfield and keeps the surround speakers from blaring into your ears. So | Married an Axe Murderer These approaches definitely sound 1993. Mike Myers, Nancy Travis; dir. different, but we think the blend be- Thomas Schlamme. New Beat poet falls for tween the main and surround speakers is more important than how the sur- butcher babe, but is she really Mrs. X the round speakers sound. With THX, this is a given; with other manufacturers, axe murderer? Surround. (PG-13) 93 min. it’s only a possibility. VHS priced for rental. LD $34.95. MCA/ e Subwoofers. The THX subwoofers Universal. a from M&K and B&W trashed the competition here. In our room, the Is your Cable Company B&W has a punchier, tighter sound; Alienating You? the M&K sounds a bit softer and warmer. We enjoyed using both— Say NO to unearthly which is better depends on your home rental fees! Owning your cable theater room, program material and personal taste. The JBL and Energy pyERROLD equipment saves you subs sound pretty good, but with con- the high cost of siderably less punch and power than ei- monthly equipment ther of the expensive THX subs. (We prefer Energy's smaller, $550 AS-90 sub rental charges, and to the AS-180—it offers less low bass, gives you control of but a tight, punchy sound that makes it our favorite inexpensive sub.) your TV. e Cosmetics. The average home the- We have the Best in ater enthusiast has a tough time squeezing a big home theater system biiN into a normal living room without mak- ing it look like a recording studio. 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If you want the subs makes sense —it sounds a bit less benefits of THX but can’t deal with the center speaker, one solution is to use refined than its big brother, but pro- THX left and right speakers with a smaller speaker designed for use with duces a slightly more ambient sound. the THX system, like M&K’s S-90. You give up little in timbre-matching and Based on a demo Lucasfilm pre- voice intelligibility, but you gain much SONY MITSUBISHI sented at CES (see “Vegas Victory Par- in spouse acceptance. Or you can wait KV 32TS36 CS-31301 for Atlantic Technology's new horizon- ty,” this issue), we think THX speakers KV32XBR36 CS-31302.. epaIaEFtrmeRMeEeE mtaliTHtX center speaker, which the KV32XBR95S. company hopes to have by summer. hold promise for music reproduction agCS-35307 wv THE VERDICT once music recordings are released in The bottom line is: For all-around Dolby’s 5.1-channel Dolby Surround listening, our jury preferred the BaW and Mirage non-THX systems. To be Digital format. They also: improve specific, most of our listeners preferred the Mirage, with a couple rebelling when used with the surround simula- against the bipolar sound and casting their votes with B&W. Both speaker tion modes offered on most surround systems have faults, but we always en- joyed listening to them, no matter what processors, but we’re generally not par- the program material. tial to surround simulation. Until 5.1 Choosing between the two is really a matter of preference. If you like the happens, we think plain old stereo— bipolar sound, a system based on Mi- rage bipolar speakers (or Definitive heard through good music speakers— is Technology BP-10s) is a great buy. If you don’t, the B&Ws (or another pair the way to go for CDs. of good audiophile main speakers matched with a center speaker that Let the record show: For serious uses similar drivers) should make you happy. For those on smaller budgets, music listeners, conventional speakers the Energy system is well worth check- ing out if you like a bright, exciting are the best bet. For dedicated movie sou—nsdome of our jury liked it a lot, some found it a little fatiguing. buffs, THX offers great sound without Clearly, Lucasfilm had movies in guesswork. If you fall somewhere in be- mind when it created the specs for con- RECIEVERS sumer THX systems, so it’s no surprise tween, you'll have to conduct your own that all of the THX speakers sounded MONTHLY SPECIALS terrific for movies. We feel that here, trial — with your local audio/video deal- their benefits far outweigh their demer- its. But for stereo music, they clearly et as your courtroom and your laser- have limitations compared to conven- 80W PRO-LOGIC RE! 125W PRO-LOGIC REC. tional systems at similar prices. So we discs and CDs as witnesses —to reach 100W PRO-LOGIC RE! 69] SUBWOOFER recommend them for dedicated home 110W PRO-LOGIC RE! 091 SUB. W/4 SAT. theater installations, where music takes your own verdict. Ignore the hype and a back seat to movies. let your ears be the judge. B B&W’s neutrality makes it our fa- RX-309TN.... vorite of the THX systems, although RX-509TN the M&K system definitely has merit— be sure to hear both before you buy. CASSETTE DECKS The JBL system provides most of these continued from page 38 SONY JVC processor. Although it’s rated at 100 TDW-209 watts per channel, we found it a little TOW-309.. TDW-709.. wimpy and veiled-sounding when com- TDW-80 pared to six Marantz MA-500s in our FOR OTHER B large home theater room. Our take on the KM-X1 is that it’s best for a budget system in a 2,000- to 4,000-cubic-foot CDP-297 room. It’s very convenient to us—eone button turns on all six amps, and it has a 25-pin jack that allows a one-cable con- nection between it and the KC-X1. And at $149 a channel, it’s affordable. Just to get our audiophile ya-yas out, WE ALWAYS BEAT OUR we compared the Marantz and Kenwood COMPETITION'S PRICE! amps to a non-IHTX amp of good ped- ALL OUR PRODUCTS ARE FACTORY FRESH WITH FULL MANUFACTURERS USAR WARRANTY igree, Rotel’s $600, 100-watt-per-chan- WE HAVE MORE MAIL ORDER EXPERIENCE THAN MOST OF THE nel stereo RBX-980BX. The amps ADVERTISERS COMBINED.!! sounded different, but we couldn’t iden- GIVE US A CALL WHEN YOU ARE READY TO PURCHASE FOR THE BEST PRICE, tify any sonic attributes particular to AND BEST SERVICE!!! THX. The Rotel sounds smoothest, but 35 WEST 35TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10001 with a smaller soundstage than the THX amps. The Marantzs take the prize for imaging, and produce a very clear but slightly hard top end. The Kenwood’s sound is less detailed, and it can’t match the others in imaging. Our favorite: the Marantzs or the Rotel, depending on the speakers used with them. 5 88 VIDEO APRIL 1994

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continued from page 43 the level movie makers intend, so that TV stations would encode program when they turn the level down the dia- names into line 21 of the vertical blank- nel signal, and two for parallel connec- log gets hard to understand and much of ing interval of their TV signals. VCRs tions to the left and right main speakers. the surround effect is lost. But when you with Index Plus would simply read the Unity says sound mixers usually put all switch on Atlantic’s level compensation code. Stations can also use the code to and lower the volume, the left and right provide programming schedules. Gem- the ambient sound in the main speakers, channels are cut to a greater degree star, creator of VCR Plus, says it expects and that its design brings the ambience than the center and surround channels. to see the feature in at least some VCRs into the center speaker for a more natu- This is a great idea, a real relationship- by the end of the year. ral soundfield. The surround speakers saver for late-night movie watchers. are the size and shape of a hardcover Among the more interesting VCRs book, with a midrange driver facing to The most surprising home theater were dual-well 8mm/VHS VCRs from each side and a tweeter along the edge. entry was by AMC, a company best Go-Video and GoldStar. The two Go- known for its 30-watts-per-channel inte- Video models, tentatively priced at $999 Controversial ideas, to be sure, but we grated tube amps. AMC demonstrated a and $1,299, record and play on both the thought the system sounded great. THX-certified surround processor with 8mm and VHS sides, and the deluxe an integral sound-pressure level meter model allows Hi8 playback. Both are If last month’s feature on subwoofers for calibrating the system. There’s a mic due this fall. The GoldStar model, with (“Audio You Can Feel”) has you yearn- jack on the front and a test mic is in- a five-head VHS deck, only offers play- ing for big bass, check out the latest subs back on the 8mm side. from Definitive Technology and Hsu Re- cluded. Not a bad deal for $1,000! search. All delivered enough punch to Another Go-Video deck with two shake the sturdiest shelf and annoy the DIRECT BROADCAST four-head VHS VCRs includes a new most tolerant neighbor. Definitive Following more than a decade of audio twist, a Dolby Pro-Logic surround showed a 12-inch sub with its new $179 decoder with wireless links to two rear (each) BP-1 bipolar satellite speaker, and hype, the direct broadcast satellite is fi- surround speakers, which are included wowed all in attendance. nally here. Represented by the RCA in the $1,500 price. Toshiba showed sev- DSS system, it generated considerable eral VCRs with amplifiers on the head- Atlantic Technology also showed a interest at CES. Retailers eager for new drums to reduce noise. The feature has new decoder with center/surround level profit lines crowded the RCA/Thomson been on professional VCRs for years. compensation. Atlantic’s Peter Tribe- booth for demonstrations. This month, Now its migrating to consumer decks. man says few people watch movies at the DSS system will begin to bring scores of channels directly into Ameri- There were more than a smattering CABLE TV can homes equipped with RCA’s 18-inch of new TVCRs. Entering the TVCR market for the first time are Zenith— DESCRAMBLERS dish and sleek set-top decoder; DSS is with the 19-inch TVR1920 and scheduled to become available nation- TVRI1940, and the 13-inch SLV1230S— Best Prices in the U.S.A.! wide this fall. and Aiwa, with the 20-inch VX-S201 Guaranteed to Work! and the 13-inch VX-S131. Sanyo is offer- DBS-1, the first of two-high powered ing the 19-inch TVR-1944 for $450 and WE WILL BEAT ANY PRICE! Hughes satellites that make DSS possi- the 13-inch TVR-1344 for $400, both ble, was successfully launched into orbit with trilingual onscreen displays. TVCR JERROLD PANASONIC pioneers Panasonic and Emerson SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA PIONEER last December, while the second is due showed new models with slightly up- to fly in early summer. The pair of birds The Newest & the Latest will fulfill the promise of 150 channels of dated features. programs, which RCA says will be deliv- DMTB-A - all Jerrold Impulse & ered with laserdisc-quality video and For videophiles with sing-along Starcom series CD-quality sound. sides, Panasonic showed a laser karaoke player, the LX-750, with built-in critical SA3-DFA -all Scientific Atlantas Two DSS program suppliers an- capabilities. It uses onscreen displays to nounced plans for a myriad of channels. show singers how far off pitch they are PN-3A incl. 8536, 8536+, 8580, USSB will offer 14 popular cable chan- and how many sour notes they hit. It Drop-field nels, including HBO, Showtime, MTV can automatically adjust a song’s key to - all Pioneer systems and Nickelodeon in packages costing match a singer’s key and, even better, from $7.95 to $34.95 a month. DirecTv turn itself off after too many missed ALSO announced the addition of ESPN to its roster of programs, which already in- notes. oe = Fe)Pe 4 odOF So)C) cludes The Disney Channel, CNN and Court TV. CAMCORDERS AND TVs FAST SHIPMENTS 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE VCRS AND TVCRS Surprisingly, few new camcorders were announced, but there were some FREE CATALOG & INFORMATION The most intriguing VCR develop- bright spots. Sharp showed the VL- ment wasn’t a new deck, but a program- HL400 Hi8 ViewCam, which updates its 1-800-772-6244 ming aid by Gemstar. Called Index Plus, pioneering VL-HL100 ViewCam by add- it’s essentially a no-brainer, onscreen ta- ing a real zoom rocker and a few operat- M-F:; 9-6 EST ble of contents for home-recorded ing improvements. Canon’s Hi8 L2 cassettes. A VCR with Index Plus cir- camcorder with interchangeable lenses U.S. Cable TV, Inc. Dept.: KVM044 cuitry would encode any tape used for upgrades the sturdy L1 by adding RC home recording with an ID number and timecode, data and index codes, hori- 4100 N. Powerline Rd. Bldg. F-4 Pompano Beach FL 33073 a permanent index of its contents. View- zontal wipes and a new remote with a ers would easily access the index any- shuttle dial. 9OUJ@\"1OFdAP9IPA1AeB1Ie9@yS NO FLORIDA SALES! time they use the tape, and go directly to any entry by moving an onscreen cur- Toshiba took the widescreen TV sor with the VCR’s remote control. continued on page 103 92 VIDEO APRIL 1994

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