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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 58: Jerry Mahabub
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 23, 2011
Jerry Mahabub, founder of GenAudio and inventor of AstoundSound 3D-audio technology, talks about his research in brain imaging and perception as a teenager and how that research led to AstoundSound, how the algorithm works with 2-channel and surround systems, his new recording studio where the soundtrack for benefit short-film We Are the World 25 for Haiti was mixed and encoded with AstoundSound, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:02:46

Update: Now with a link to the YouTube video of the podcast!

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
How Do You Know (Blu-Ray)
David Vaughn  |  Mar 23, 2011
Lisa (Reese Witherspoon) is in the emotional dumpster after getting cut from the Olympic softball team and shacks up with a major league baseball player and ladies' man, Matty (Owen Wilson) while she tries to put her life back together. Shortly after their relationship takes root she meets George (Paul Rudd), a business man facing his own personal issues with his father and a pending indictment by the Justice Department, and the two become good friends but could there be more to the relationship than she realizes?

Writer-director James L. Brooks' has quite a resume and I guess every now and then even the best of writers will release a stinker, and this certainly qualifies. The love triangle storyline had possibilities between Rudd, Wilson, and Witherspoon, but there are too many loose ends with Rudd's neurotic secretary (Katheryn Hahn) and his father (Jack Nicholson) that could have been excluded to quicken the pace and make the film more interesting.

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Audio Video News
Mits Dumps LCDs in Favor of RPTVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 23, 2011
Over the past several years several major TV makers have discontinued their rear-projection TVs to concentrate on flat panel TVs. Mitsubishi is going in the opposite direction, dumping its LCD line in favor of rear-projection sets.

Mitsubishi's RPTVs use both Texas Instruments DLP technology and its own Laservue technology.

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3D Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Tangled 3D—Walt Disney Pictures
Kris Deering  |  Mar 22, 2011
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 5/5
When the kingdom's most wanted - and most charming - bandit Flynn Rider hides in a mysterious tower, the last thing he expects to find is Rapunzel, a spirited teen with an unlikely superpower - 70 feet of magical golden hair! Together, the unlikely duo sets off on a fantastic journey filled with surprising heroes, laughter and suspense.
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TV ReviewsLCD TV Reviews
NuVision Lucidium NVU55FX10LS 3D LCD HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 22, 2011
Price: $6,999 At A Glance: Refined, engaging picture • Compromised LED dynamic edge lighting • 3D resolution not full HD (at press time)

Going Upscale With 3D

Unless you’re a regular reader and recall our review of the Lucidium NVU55FX5LS HDTV (Home Theater, April 2010), you may not have heard of NuVision. The company keeps a relatively low profile in an attempt to build a reputation as a connoisseur brand. It sells primarily through custom installation channels, and all of its products come with a two-year warranty and a two-day on-site, nationwide service program.

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Audio Video News
Dynamic Range Day 2011
Michael Berk  |  Mar 22, 2011

 

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Premiere Design
Greensound Technology Glass Speakers
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 22, 2011

In this blog, I've written about speakers with glass enclosures, such as several models from Perfect8, and even speakers with glass diaphragms, such as the Hario Harion. But I've never before seen glass speakers like those from Greensound Technology, in which a single, freestanding sheet of glass serves as the (almost) full-range diaphragm.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 3
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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Other Tech
Tommy Shaw: The Next Right-Sounding Thing Page 4
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 22, 2011

Good is good. It’s a simple adage, but one that’s especially true when it comes to music. Genre and predetermined preferences should be secondary if you’re truly interested in having your ears entertained, challenged, and enriched.

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