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Invictus (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 23, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/invictus.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Newly elected President Mandela (Morgan Freeman) believes he can bring his racially and economically divided people together by rallying behind the country's rugby team. He partners with the captain (Matt Damon) of the underdog team as they make an unlikely run in the 1995 World Cup.

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The Big Picture
Self Defense
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 21, 2010

I get lots of thoughtful, intelligent e-mail from our readers, which I greatly appreciate, even&#151;sometimes especially&#151;when they disagree with my positions. But once in a while, a real doozy arrives in my inbox. Normally, I ignore these rants, but I recently received one that I'd like to share, along with my responses. The original is mostly one very long, convoluted paragraph regarding <A href="http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/ultimate-3d/roger_ebert_hates_3d/">my blog about Roger Ebert's hatred of 3D</A>. I will break it up here and respond to each point in turn, and I'll edit for clarity, doing my best to retain the writer's intended meaning.

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Audio Video News
Google TV Coming This Fall
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 21, 2010
Sony and Logitech will be the first manufacturers to produce Google TV devices, it was announced yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. And the Dish Network will be the first video provider to feature Google TV.
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Audio Video News
iPad now outputs Netflix to HDTVs
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010
The iPad is barely a few weeks old and already it's seeing significant software updates. The Netflix Watch Instantly app for the iPad is getting a major new feature that could change how you use your iPad. The newly released version of the...
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Audio Video News
Vancouver: Valhalla for Vintage Audio
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010
Aficionados of antique audio gear will want to make sure they're in the Vancouver area in mid-June, when Surrey, BC, vintage audio dealer Innovative Audio hosts its third annual Garage Sale: a huge gathering where the company and many...
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Audio Video News
Google TV brings the internet, apps to your home theater
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010
  You have to go out of your way these days to find a TV maker that isn't already cramming proprietary web apps into their displays and devices, but Google has changed the game a bit with today's announcement of their new 10-foot...
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Audio Video News
FCC Unleashes Selectable Output Control
user  |  May 20, 2010
This is another one of those bad news, good news stories. The bad news is that the Federal Communications Commission has caved in to the movie industry's demand to disable the component video interface on high-def devices. The good news is that the studios can use this so-called selectable output control only under very specific circumstances, to protect fresh video on demand titles.
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Premiere Design
Adam Audio Olympus Sound System
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 20, 2010
If the Greek gods had been audiophiles, they might well have used something like the Olympus Sound System (OSS) from Adam Audio, a German high-end maker of products for the professional and consumer markets. This behemoth stands seven feet tall and weighs over 350 pounds with separate enclosures for each set of drivers.
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Audio Video News
Toshiba working on headache-free 3D glasses
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2010
Active shutter glasses are useful for displaying 3D video because they get rid of the "ghosting" that can appear with passive glasses. Active glasses work by using liquid crystal lenses to rapidly switch on and off between the two eyes, ensuring...
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Monitor Audio Silver RX Series Speaker System Page 3
Brent Butterworth  |  May 19, 2010

In Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, where I live, "naked" is all the rage. That's not just because the Valley is the world capital of adult video production. It's also because the SFV is home to several of America's leading speaker reviewers. Don't worry - as far as I know, the reviewers are keeping their clothes on. But many of the speakers they review are not.

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