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Snell and Escient Get the Ax
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 08, 2010
D&M Holdings will pare its six brands down to four, eliminating Snell Acoustics, a well known speaker brand, and Escient, maker of media servers. Denon, Marantz, McIntosh Labs, and Boston Acoustics will continue in the D&M family.
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Blu-ray sales up 68% this year
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2010
The sales numbers are in for the first quarter of 2010, and they bring good news for Blu-ray. According to Home Media Magazine by way of Engadget HD, Blu-ray Disc sales have jumped 68% compared to the same time last year. This is a huge increase,...
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Panasonic Kuro, Wireless HDMI, Dynamic Contrast
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 07, 2010
Technology Migration
I was in Best Buy this morning, and one of the salespeople mentioned that Panasonic has purchased the Kuro technology from Pioneer. Is there any truth to this, and if so, is Panasonic going to use the technology in the 2010 plasmas?
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Ruling May Starve Online Video
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 07, 2010
A federal court ruling may permit internet service providers to starve certain online video operations of bandwidth, effectively threatening the growth of net-delivered video.
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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 15: David Vaughn
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2010  |  First Published: Apr 07, 2010
UAV and HT movie and product reviewer David Vaughn talks about what he looks and listens for in movies, which movies let him turn off his inner critic, the value of bonus features and BD-Live, online delivery vs. physical discs, the Lord of the Rings screenshot brouhaha, TiVo Premier, and more.

Run Time: 1:19:36

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Custom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
Refined High-End AV
Steve Derrico  |  Apr 06, 2010

I am an avid reader of Home Theater Magazine and have been for over 10 Years. I have been in the industry for 10 Years and within the last year started my own custom installation company in the Chicagoland area, Monarch AV Design & Automation. In 2009, we had the great opportunity to change an ordinary "blah" basement into a rustic and old-world getaway for the homeowner to enjoy a Pearl Jam concert, a game of pool, or just to enjoy a movie with the kids. Working with interior designer and general contractor, Phillip Sassano, we helped design a space that would be both visually stunning and meet the high expectations of the homeowner for musical and theater performance.

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McIntosh works with Reprise Records and Neil Young to promote its first Blu-Ray player
SV Staff  |  Apr 06, 2010
McIntosh has just announced a collaboration with Reprise Records to promote the company's first Blu-ray Disc player, the MVP881 BR. Specifically, the promotion involves Neil Young's music and the opportunity to save $25 after spending $8,000 on a...
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New Blu-ray Formats Introduced
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2010

No matter how much data storage is available in any medium, people always want more. Take Blu-ray, for example—one might think that 25 or 50GB would be plenty for just about any storage requirement, but some applications need even more. To address this insatiable demand, the Blu-ray Disc Association this week announced a new high-capacity recordable format called BDXL as well as a new hybrid format called IH-BD.

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Energy Star Tightens TV Specs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 06, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary Energy Star program is about to tighten up its energy efficiency requirements for TVs.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Apr 05, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/lotrbd.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In case you've been in a coma for the past 10 years, Peter Jackson adapted the popular J.R.R. Tolkien novel with amazing results. Arguably, it's one of the greatest movie accomplishments of all time with 15 Academy Awards, over $1 billion in US box-office receipts, and nearly $3 billion worldwide.

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