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Vizio’s Flagship P-Series Displays Now in Stores
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
Vizio today announced that its flagship P-Series and M-Series 4K/Ultra HD displays are now available in stores.
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Hey Dad, How About Some Vinyl?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 13, 2017
You can call me old fashioned. You can call me a Luddite. You can even call me Ishmael. But I like to read books. Paper books, thank you very much. Based on that, my homies at Barnes & Noble apparently think that I like to listen to vinyl too.

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Casio Pitches “LampFree” Projector to Dads
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
With Father’s Day around the corner, Casio is pitching DLP projectors based on its LampFree technology as the perfect gift, or at least one to consider.
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Soundfloat Kickstarter Campaign Sinks
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
You gotta give the guys at Spika International credit for trying to raise fifty grand on Kickstarter for an “inflatable lounge” with built-in Bluetooth speakers. But after 38 days, the campaign was canceled, having met less than 20 percent of its goal ($9,393).
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IMAX Opens Virtual Reality Center In NYC
Rob Sabin  |  Jun 12, 2017  |  First Published: Jun 13, 2017
The company best known among cinephiles for entertaining big audiences with big screens and big sound has gone the opposite way with its latest big idea: Virtual reality (VR) centers to provide one-on-one entertainment to walk-in customers at cineplexes and other venues nationwide.

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Zvox Launches $300 Dialogue-Boosting Soundbar
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2017
Zvox has successfully funded a new soundbar on Kickstarter that will offer the company’s AccuVoice technology for $300.
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Sound United Brands Will Support AirPlay 2
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2017
Sound United, parent company of a half-dozen venerable audio brands, has announced that Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Heos by Denon, and Definitive Technology that will support AirPlay 2, the updated version of the AirPlay wireless streaming protocol Apple announced last week at its developers conference where it also introduced the HomePod smart speaker.
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The Trouble with Sequels
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jun 10, 2017
We’re well into the age of "Movie Sequels and Series and Nothing Else". Complaining about it won’t go away. They’re low risk and usually high profit. This is how Hollywood is right now, and there’s nothing we can do about that.

So it’s important to take a look at how hard it is to make a sequel, using two recent movies as examples of how to do it, and how not to do it.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
High Noon
Chris Chiarella  |  Jun 09, 2017
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An undeniable dramatic masterpiece, High Noon has lost none of its considerable power to enthrall an audience with its relentless suspense born of inexorable doom. We know at once that Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is a damned good man. Yet when news breaks that a murderer he sent to hang is instead returning with his gang for revenge, he is heartlessly shunned by the townsfolk he has risked his life to protect.
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Inferno
David Vaughn  |  Jun 09, 2017
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Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) finds himself in Italy suffering a bout of amnesia. When he awakes, he’s in a strange hospital room where an attractive doctor, Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), is caring for him and tries to explain how he ended up in Florence, Italy. Before you know it, an assassin attacks the hospital, and Langdon and Brooks are on the run trying to figure out who wants him dead. As the pieces fall into place, Langdon discovers he’s on the hunt for Dante-inspired clues leading the pair on a chase to save the world from a crazy billionaire (Ben Foster) who has a diabolical plan for the planet.
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