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The Big Picture
Balancing Act
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 13, 2009

<I>There are some awesome AVRs out there, but I think it's a big compromise to run long speaker cables all around the room. Nearly every speaker manufacturer recommends using equal-length speaker cables. So unless you use monoblocks for each channel, you defy that logic.</I>

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Audio Video News
DirecTV Sale 'Possible'
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 13, 2009
Recent machinations in the ownership of DirecTV may culiminate in the satellite operator being sold to one of the major telephone companies, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei has told the Associated Press.
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Other Tech
First Listen: Dolby Pro Logic IIz
Brent Butterworth  |  May 12, 2009

Whether it's a sofa, a spouse, or a new surround-sound technology, you never really know what it's like until you bring it home and spend some time with it.

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Ask S&V
Multichannel Analog, Which TV, Upgrade Path
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 12, 2009
Bypass Blues
I read that if you let a Blu-ray player decode the new audio formats and send them to the receiver from the player's multichannel analog outputs, you bypass the receiver's crossover and equalization settings. Is this also the case when you use PCM over HDMI?
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Audio Video News
Slingbox iPhone app available tomorrow for $30
SV Staff  |  May 12, 2009
iPhone users have been waiting on an official SlingPlayer app for quite some time, but here we are on the eve of its release and there's a lot of disappointed placeshifters out there. The most glaring problem with the app is the fact that it...
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Premiere Design
The Art of Music
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 12, 2009

Lately in this blog, I've been concentrating on speakers with astronomical prices, which is loads of fun. But it's certainly possible to enjoy exceptional sound without spending six or seven figures. Take, for example, the new top-dog Klimt series from Austrian speaker manufacturer <A href="http://www.viennaacoustics.at">Vienna Acoustics</A>.

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Audio Video News
Vizio ships more LCDs in the US than anyone else in Q1
SV Staff  |  May 12, 2009
A few Vizio panels have made their way in front of the S&V staff and the usual verdict is that they produce "solid" performance when you factor in the low cost. Apparently their formula is an effective one, allowing them to ship 21.6%...
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Audio Video News
First DSX Receiver Arrives from Denon
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 12, 2009
Audyssey's DSX surround listening mode, which adds both width and height channels, is arriving in the form of product this month with the Denon AVR-4310CI.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Passengers (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 11, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/passengers.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway), is assigned to counsel the flight's five survivors. When she begins to uncover conflicting accounts of the accident, she chalks it up to traumatic stress disorder&#151;until the survivors start vanishing one by one.

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Audio Video News
Denon's summer fever: AVRs and Blu-ray players
SV Staff  |  May 11, 2009
Home theater equipment manufacturer Denon just announced several new products for the coming year, including a whopping 9 A/V receivers and a pair of Blu-ray Disc players. Every new receiver, from the $349 retail-channel AVR-590 to the $1,999...
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