Joel Brinkley gets his hands on the Faroudja PlasmaSync 42MP4 & Native Rate Series Digital Cinema Source plasma display & DVD player-digital video processor and puts it to the test. Combine a NEC plasma display with Faroudja processing and you get "an intriguing product for review," says JB.

You've got great components, but how to make them easy for everyone to use? Scott Wilkinson examines the Universal Remote Control Home Theater Master MX-800 and finds that it has one feature that may make it better than anything else in its price range.

DVD has taken off like no other format in consumer-electronics history. At the end of these first five years of stellar growth for DVD, SGHT's editors rate the good, the bad, and the ugly in "DVD: Five Years and Still Sizzling." More than 55 DVD reviews in one place, with ratings for sound, picture, and content.

Flat screens are the hot item in video displays, and Thomas J. Norton reviews one of the hottest screens available, the Fujitsu Plasmavision SlimScreen P50XHA10U high-definition plasma. TJN notes, "The new Fujitsu goes for just under $11,000 and may well represent the state of the art in 50" plasma displays."