Michael Gaughn

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Apple PowerBook G4 Laptop Computer
Michael Gaughn  |  Sep 21, 2003  |  0 comments
Photo by Tony Cordoza Come with me back to the first days of portable computing, when two now extinct titans named Osborne and Kaypro ruled the land.
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Listen Up!
Michael Gaughn  |  Jun 10, 2003  |  0 comments
Illustrations by Eric Yang Pretty much all you need to know about satellite radio can be summed up in one paragraph. There are two services, Sirius and XM. XM offers 101 channels, with 71 of them devoted to music, and the rest to news and talk. Sirius has 100 channels (or "streams," as it calls them), 60 of them music-only.
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What’s So Great About Satellite Radio?
Michael Gaughn  |  Jun 10, 2003  |  0 comments

We went to four programmers from XM and four from Sirius and asked them the same question: With listeners able to choose between things like CD megachangers, digital music servers, DVD music videos, and traditional radio, what does satellite radio have to offer?

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Multichannel Music Report Card (2003)
Michael Gaughn  |  Mar 25, 2003  |  0 comments
Coming into early 2003, the biggest news about the two high-resolution multichannel audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, might be that they're both still hanging in there.
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My Blue Heaven
Michael Gaughn  |  May 05, 2006  |  0 comments

0605_blue_heaven_facesBlue Man Group founders Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, and Chris Wink (shown sans face paint at right) have been busy little performance artists since we talked to them for last April's "Blue Men Exposed," opening a spectacular surround sound-fil

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Michael Gaughn  |  Jul 13, 2008  |  0 comments
Mirimax
Movie •• Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••

Pretty people and privilege were the raw ingredients for some o

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Michael Gaughn  |  May 31, 2008  |  0 comments
DreamWorks
Movie ••• Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••

With serial killers all the rage (in both fiction and reali

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The Blu Kingdom
Michael Gaughn  |  Jan 03, 2007  |  0 comments

The numbers I've seen lately say that the vast majority of people who buy a Blu-ray Disc player are completely satisfied with it. On the other hand, most people aren't even aware of the format or are confused about what it is.

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Drive My Cars
Michael Gaughn  |  Jan 04, 2008  |  0 comments

See that big, friendly-looking guy in the Hawaiian shirt with cartoon Cars all over it? He's probably the most important man in Hollywood. No, really.

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Installations: Heartbreak Home Theater
Michael Gaughn  |  Nov 02, 2007  |  0 comments

Brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly are the legendary duo behind some of the most raucous, outrageous, original - and successful - comedies ever, including Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and most recently, The Heartbreak Kid.

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