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Cowboys get into Guinness for biggest HDTV
SV Staff  |  Sep 28, 2009
The Dallas Cowboys have gotten into the record books, and not for anything actually football-related. The "Godzillatron" at the new Cowboys' stadium is officially the world's largest high-definition display, according to the Guinness Book of World...
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Projector Reviews
Sony BRAVIA VPL-VW85 SXRD Projector
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 28, 2009
Price: $8,000 At A Glance: Solid blacks • Accurate color • Unique adjustability • Color management system could be more effective • Superb resolution

Big Performance

The June 2009 issue of Home Theater featured a glowing report on Sony’s VPL-VW70 video projector. But as they say, time flies when you’re having fun. Building on its enviable past record in cutting-edge, high-value video projectors, Sony has just launched the VPL-VW70’s successor, the VPL-VW85.

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Mitsubishi WD-73837 DLP Rear-Projection HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 28, 2009
Price: $3,000 At A Glance: Superb value • Superior black level and shadow detail • Flexible calibration controls with ISF CCC

Going Against the Flow

"Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in!”

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Audio Video News
Cablevision Wants to Lock Up QAM
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 28, 2009
Look out, Cablevision customers in New York City. If you're using a QAM-tuner-equipped TV to receive unencrypted basic cable channels without a set-top box, your boxless days may be numbered. Cablevision is lobbying the Federal Communications Commission for permission to lock up QAM tuners.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Away We Go (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Sep 25, 2009  |  First Published: Sep 26, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/away.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Anticipating the birth of their first child, unmarried couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) partake in a cross-country journey to visit family and friends and find the perfect location to raise their child. Along the way, they meet an interesting cast of characters that make their ultimate destination much easier to choose.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Away We Go—Focus Features (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
Longtime (and now thirtysomething) couple Burt and Verona are going to have a baby. The pregnancy progresses smoothly, but six months in, the pair is put off and put out by the cavalierly delivered news from Burt's parents Jerry and Gloria that the eccentric elder Farlanders are moving out of Colorado - thereby eliminating the expectant couple's main reason for living there. So, where, and among whom of those closest to them, might Burt and Verona best put down roots to raise their impending bundle of joy? The couple embarks on an ambitious itinerary to visit friends and family, and to evaluate cities.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Dexter: The Third Season—Showtime (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2009
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 2/5
Having faced some of his darkest demons, Dexter's ready to put the past behind him. Now, with family life, a day job catching killers and an uncontrollable urge to do away with the ones that get away, Dexter's got his work cut out for him. And when a high-profile case sides him with powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado, the pressure might be too great for even our beloved Dexter to hack.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Crank 2: High Voltage—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2009
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
Chev has managed to survive and is about to face a brand new day. Picking up immediately where the first movie left off, "Crank 2: High Voltage" finds Chev surviving the climactic plunge to his most certain death on the streets of L.A., only to be kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese Mobster. Three months later, Chev wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been replaced with a battery-operated ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
I Love You, Man—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3/5
Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates" to find such a friend, before meeting Sydney Fife, a fun-loving, charismatic man - just Peter's opposite - with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fianc and his newfound "bro," in a story that comically explores what's at the core of male friendship and what it truly means to be a friend.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Hannibal Lecter Collection—MGM (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2009
Video: 3/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 0/5
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it's Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events - the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son.
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