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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Event Horizon—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Its name: "Event Horizon". The high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller, to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. Accompanying Miller is his elite crew and the lost ship's designer; their mission is to find and salvage the state-of-the-art interstellar horror.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Days of Thunder—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 0/5
From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, "Days Of Thunder" explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland, Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Burn After Reading—Focus Features (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Bangkok Dangerous—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, street punk and pick pocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard just as Sarat decides it's time to clean house.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
X-Files: Fight The Future—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 19, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Thirty-seven thousand years ago, a deadly secret was buried in a cave in Texas. Now the secret has been unleashed. And its discovery may mean the end of all humanity. "The plague to end all plagues." When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, Texas, FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy surpassing anything they've ever encountered. With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor. Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be extraterrestrial in origin - and could destroy all life on earth. Their pursuit of truth pits them against the mysterious Syndicate, powerful men who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe, leading the agents from the cave in Texas, to the halls of the FBI, and finally to a secret installation in Antarctica which holds the greatest secret of all.
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Audio Video News
First Blu-ray/DVD Debuts
SV Staff  |  Dec 19, 2008
What could possible push the sales of Blu-ray harder into the positive numbers is debuting in Japan. The world's first hybrid Blu-ray/DVD movie is going to be released (in Japan) on February 18th.  One of the benefits of the dearly...
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Audio Video News
Flat Panel Decline in 2009
SV Staff  |  Dec 19, 2008
You would have thought that sales of flat panel TV would be booming right now. We're 61 days away from the digital conversion. Instead of buying converter boxes, most pundits thought everyone would be rushing out to buy new digital TVs this...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Day the Earth Stood Still
David Vaughn  |  Dec 19, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/dayearthstill.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>A flying saucer lands in Washington D.C., capturing the attention of the world. When Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and his robot Gort (Lock Martin) emerge from the vehicle, Klaatu is shot by a nervous soldier and taken to Walter Reed Hospital for recovery. He soon receives a visit from the President's envoy, Mr. Harley (Frank Conroy), who apologizes for the misunderstanding. Klaatu's only request is to meet with all of the world's leaders to deliver a message, but given the political climate, this is an impossible request.

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LCD TV Reviews
Sharp LC-52D85U LCD TV
Scott Wilkinson  |  Dec 19, 2008

Many companies have gotten into the LCD TV game over the last few years, hoping to capitalize on the high demand for flat panels. But most are newcomers compared to Sharp, which was among the first to offer LCD TVs in Japan way back in 1988. Since then, Sharp has remained ahead of the curve in terms of manufacturing and environmental concerns, investing billions of dollars in new plants and processes.

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Audio Video News
RIAA Consumer Lawsuits to Cease
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 19, 2008
Just in time for the holidays, the Recording Industry Association of America has announced that it will no longer launch mass lawsuits against wayward consumers for illegally sharing music files on the internet. What a lovely present!
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