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| December 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's no exaggeration to say that DVD players are driving today's home video market. Sales are climbing steadily, in large part because the picture quality of a DVD player exceeds what you can get from a videocassette recorder VCR or typical cable broadcasts.

That's encouraging buyers to get a better and, in many cases, bigger TV to capitalize on DVD's crisper, more detailed picture. Then there's the audio. A multispeaker sound system like the equipment that we rated in last month's issue can make the most of the multichannel digital soundtracks on DVD movies.

In this special section, we cover DVD players, as well as TVs in three larger screen sizes. Our ...

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