Which flat-screen HDTV is right for your living room? Miracle at St. Anna director Spike Lee tests the best.

CINEPHILE
Pioneer Elite Kuro HDTV PRO-111FD 50-inch Plasma $5,000
The Lowdown: Home theater obsessives swear by Pioneer’s best sets, which for years have produced deeper blacks than anybody else’s in the game. Well, hold your Criterion Collection—the new ’08 models make darks five times dark­er. An “optimum mode” uses light and sound sensors to automatically calibrate the brightness level and ambient light color in your porno lair, er, home theater.
Spike’s Take: “It’s not a scientific test, but obviously this set is gorgeous. Everybody knows about Pioneer Kuros. I have two of ’em in my offices.”

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The next gen of supercharged digital cameras are smaller, smarter, and take sharper pics than ever. ID your style and start shooting. Then start wishing your family and friends were better looking.

The Professional Vagabond
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ50
You’re a world traveler, a party hound—and can’t keep track of a USB cable to save your life. Feast your eyes on the 9.1-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ50, one of the first cameras to use wi-fi as more than a gimmick. Connect via public hotspots or T-Mobile nodes to send images to Google’s Picasa, e-mail addresses, phones, and more. As a bonus, its enhanced image stabilization, continuous autofocus, and a smart LCD mean you’ll have pictures actually worth looking at. $450, panasonic.com

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Price: $700

Not everyone has room for speakers the size of mini-fridges strewn about their living rooms, so Sony took their high quality surround sound system and shrunk the satelite speakers down to about the size of a golf ball (no, that's not a huge strawberry in the picture). Even with it's miniscule speakers, it still manages 450 watts of power and true 5.1 performance. The subwoofer is the size of a normal sub-woofer, but that means it can double as a handy coffee table. The receiver has three HDMI ports, so it'll play nice with all of your high-def boxes and the Dialogue Audio Enhancer will be a welcomed addition if you plan on watching movies where the actors actually talk to one another. Surround sound systems are notorious for letting explosions and other noise overshadow dialogue. Follow the link for another picture without any produce.

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I don't care enough about dead celebrities to read those creepy "touching last moments" articles in the supermarket tabloids, but for a tech nerd like myself, recounting the rise and fall of an entire media format is like a trip to Six Flags with a backpack full of fireworks. So, enjoy this trip down memory lane…unless you're Toshiba, in which case you should probably just have a beer or something.

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Panasonic's 150-inch plasma was pretty impressive, but it still couldn't handle the hype generated by Sony (and Samsung, who also had OLED sets that didn't look quite as cool) and their OLED display. It looks better than almost any other TV I've ever seen. It has full 1080p resolution and manages a 1,000,000 contrast ratio, which means you'll be able to tell black from really, really, really dark grey. The kicker comes in the fact that it's only 3mm thick. Add in its low power consumption and this 27-inch prototype is more than enough to get even casual TV fans a little excited. The retail version will be 11-inches when it launches later this year and will run well over the $2k mark, which makes it for bragging rights only.

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