Yamaha is a familiar name in home cinema circles thanks to its trail-blazing AV amplifiers and receivers, but it's rapidly gaining a reputation in another field - video projection. While the DPX-1000 proved that Yamaha could make a serious home cinema projector that can keep up with its rivals, the replacement DPX-1100 builds on its success.
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As the economy takes a turn for the worse and debt levels are at an all time high, the c chickens have come home to roost for many people. Whether they have lost their well paid banking job which supported their lifestyle or unfortunate circumstances such as illness has led to them being unable to pay their debts, they find themselves looking at their options.
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The hardware changes are relatively small. The ZP120 which replaces the ZP100 manages to shave 35% off its predecessor's size, while upping the Class-D amp to a very respectable 55W per channel.
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Recent changes in the law have given leasehold property owners the right to extend their leases for an additional 90 years or club together with other lessees to buy the freehold of their properties. Nevertheless, the uptake of the latter has been less enthusiastic than the government might have liked, in part because some of the detail makes the process more difficult than it might initially seem.
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Netbooks have exploded onto the market. And apparently it was a surprise to everyone in the computing industry that Joe Public fell in love with them. Oddly, it seemed we weren't interested in investing the monetary equivalent of a luxury Mauritius holiday in buying a steel box of components that connects to the internet and goes beep occasionally.
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The Goodmans GDB9 proves itself to be a very competent picture provider, even making tripe such as The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV1 look good. It's a whizz with colours, delivering the bold, bright hues of Alan's pukeworthy sets with no banding or edge bleed, and the image looks fairly detailed to boot.
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Although they take the hassle out of juggling several zappers at once the cleverer universal remotes are, the more expensive they tend to be.
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The distinctive blue lights of Gamut CD3 are a perfect aesthetic match for the excellent DI 150 integrated amp. This article tells serves as an introduction to the product from construction and performance.
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