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Witness
Chris Chiarella  |  Jan 05, 2024  |  5 comments
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Many were the times I thought of reaching out to my contacts at Paramount to give them a friendly nudge toward a 4K release of Witness, a treasure from their vault and a personal favorite of mine since its theatrical debut. My grumblings were silenced earlier this year not by one of those fancy Paramount Presents editions but with the announcement of an even fancier limited-edition box set from third-party boutique label Arrow.

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NEXTGEN TV Receiver Now Available at Walmart.com for $90
SV Staff  |  Jan 04, 2024  |  0 comments
Atlanta DTH (ADTH) has announced that the NEXTGEN TV set-top receiver it introduced last summer has been updated and is now available at walmart.com for $90 with free shipping.
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Urbanista Previews Second-Gen Solar-Powered Headphones and Earbuds
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 04, 2024  |  0 comments
Urbanista, the Swedish lifestyle audio brand, today announced that it will demonstrate second-generation versions of its solar-powered wireless headphones and earbuds at CES 2024, which opens next week in Las Vegas.
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Audio Video News
NAD/PSB/BluOS Owner Lenbrook Announces Content Delivery Ambitions
SV Staff  |  Jan 04, 2024  |  0 comments
The Lenbrook Group, developer of the BluOS hi-res music platform and owner of the NAD, PSB, and Bluesound brands, today announced the formation of a new business unit to spearhead the company’s expansion into content delivery.
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LG Previews 2024 OLED TV Lineup
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 03, 2024  |  2 comments
Determined to keep OLED top of mind at a time when mini-LED LCD display technology is coming on strong, LG today offered a preview of the OLED TV lineup it will unveil in Las Vegas next week at CES 2024.
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Other Source Component Reviews
Atari Gamestation Pro Retro Game Console Review
John Sciacca  |  Jan 03, 2024  |  6 comments

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Value
PRICE $99

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Nice selection of games
Everything needed to play is in the box
Ability to upgrade controllers/games
HDMI port for connecting to a TV
Minus
Missing some key titles
Awkward controller button layout
Questionable longevity of controllers

THE VERDICT
For Gen X-ers, the My Arcade Atari Gamestation Pro is a blast-from-the-past in an affordable package that allows you to relive some of your favorite games from childhood. Probably the best under $100 purchase I’ve made!

Here’s the TL/DR: this review is mainly for Gen-Xers. If your first gaming console was an NES or Genesis, or PlayStation or X-Box, then you’ll probably do better just to move on. But for those of us who grew up in the Atari Generation, when the home gaming market was born and really started to take off, this box is a time machine that will transport you to simpler times when all you needed to worry about was a stick and a button!

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Auro Technologies to Demonstrate Next-Generation Audio Codec at CES 2024
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 02, 2024  |  0 comments
Auro Technologies, the Belgian company behind the Auro-3D immersive-surround format, says it will demonstrate the “first and only truly scalable next-generation audio codec” at CES 2024, which opens in Las Vegas a week from today.
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Audio Video News
Trinnov’s High-End Altitude Surround Processors Now Support HDMI 2.1
SV Staff  |  Jan 02, 2024  |  0 comments
Trinnov Audio, the French company specializing in sophisticated audio processing, recently announced that its Altitude16 and flagship Altitude32 immersive surround-sound processors are now equipped an HDMI 2.1-capable board.
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The Ten Best Immersive Audio Albums of 2023
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 29, 2023  |  6 comments

It seems like everyone is riding the immersive audio wave these days, which ultimately isn’t such a bad thing at all to see our favorite format reach the ears of as many spatially interested and Atmos-curious listeners as possible. With that in mind, here are my choices for the ten best and most thoroughly immersive audio albums of 2023, which appear as follows in reverse order from 10 to 1. . .

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Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Princess Bride
Chris Chiarella  |  Dec 29, 2023  |  0 comments
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Director Rob Reiner’s genre-defying The Princess Bride, from the book and screenplay by William Goldman, is weird but somehow it works. A modest hit in theaters in 1987, this romantic, swashbuckling fairy tale struck a unique comedic tone with its quirky characters and absurd situations and has since grown to become a family favorite for generations.

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