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It's show time! (Surveying The Soundscape).(Consumer Electronics Show 2002)(Editorial)(Brief Article)

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It's Show Time! Las Vegas is the home of galloping optimism and this year's Consumer Electronics Show displayed plenty of that. But only time I ran

headlong into downright giddiness was at the press presentation at which Rearden Steel Technologies uncloaked itself and displayed for the first time in its underlying MoxiDigital incarnation.

Steve Perlman, a "technology visionary" according to Moxi's press release, is the driving force behind the company. Perlman opened unveiling by announcing that Maxi would "completely revolutionize the world of home entertainment," totally heedless of the previous and current promises (all of them specious)to do precisely that.

Perlman's proposed method centers on the Maxi Media Center, a set-top box (as the guy behind WebTV, he'd see that as the way to effect a revolution) that can integrate all audio and video in a user's home and provide a "total home entertainment solution."

Certainly Perlman is right in his observation that someone who tries now to lash together all possible home entertainment sources (CD, MP3, Internet, cable TV, satellite TV, DVD, for starters) faces an unwieldy mass of connections, a multiplicity of remotes that often duplicate each other's functions, ...

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