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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Mordaunt-Short Aviano 1 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 12, 2010
Price: $2,134 At A Glance: Extensive experience with aluminum driver diaphragms • Sub notch filter surgically removes bass bloat • Unusual bullet-shaped speaker terminals

Take Aim at Bass Bloat

Mordaunt-Short’s Aviano is a new speaker line from a British company that’s been making high-performance speakers since 1967. Since then, we’ve seen the rise of Japanese-made mass-market A/V receivers, the advent of surround sound for home theater, and lots of new speaker categories from sat/sub sets to soundbars to in-walls. On these tumultuous seas, Mordaunt-Short remains seaworthy by concentrating on the fundamentals of performance and, more recently, value.

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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Gets Fox, Sony Exclusives
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 12, 2010
Having just locked up a 28-day rental exclusive with Warner Bros., Blockbuster has repeated the feat with both Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Apollo 13 (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Apr 11, 2010  |  First Published: Apr 12, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/apollo13bd.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>After landing on the moon in 1969 and fulfilling John F. Kennedy's pledge, Americans began to lose interest in the space program. In fact, many TV stations stopped covering the missions but that changed on April 13, 1970 when Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) radioed back to control with the historic phrase: "Houston, we have a problem." What should have been a seemingly routine mission to the moon became a race against time to save three American astronauts.

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Audio Video News
Masters Golf in 3D on TWC
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2010
  Are you a Time-Warner Cable subscriber who's wondering if they actually did show The Masters golf tournament in 3D? I know I couldn't find any special new 3D channel in my lineup. And I spent a whole 30 seconds looking for it.Turns...
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Audio Video News
Show off the knots for ZVOX's Ugly TV Contest
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2010
This is really the perfect contest for readers of Sound & Vision. ZVOX, makers of the Z-Base 550 sound bar, has just announced the "Ugly TV Contest." ZVOX is offering a free Z-Base 550 system to the home theater owner with the biggest wire...
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Other Tech
New Tech 2010: HDTV Extras
Al Griffin  |  Apr 09, 2010
Features
TV PARTY -- Plenty of new TVs feature a Yahoo! widgets bar, which now includes social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some new services even let you create custom widgets that can be picked up by any TV outfitted with the Yahoo! widgets engine.

TELEPHONE -- Tired of watching TV?

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Other Tech
New Tech 2010: 3D Content Is Coming
 |  Apr 09, 2010

How many times has this happened to you? Irrepressible engineers invent a terrific piece of new hardware, but you can't find any content to play on it. the sampler that came in the box is awesome, but after playing it a thousand times, it's getting a little old.

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Premiere Design
Steinway Lyngdorf LS Sound System
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 09, 2010

As a musician, I'm well acquainted with Steinway pianos, but until recently, I was unaware that the company had entered the home-audio business with a subsidiary called <A href="http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com">Steinway Lyngdorf</A> in collaboration with Peter Lyngdorf of <A href="http://www.lyngdorf.com">Lyngdorf Audio</A>. Among its super-expensive speaker offerings is the LS line, a modular in-wall system based on the concept of a line source, in which a vertical stack of drivers delivers smooth horizontal dispersion and sound levels that fall off more gradually with distance than point-source speakers. As a result, the difference in volume between the front and back rows is less than it otherwise would be.

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Audio Video News
Sling That Dish
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 09, 2010
Dish Network subscribers: How would you like to enjoy your home satellite feed anywhere in the world as long as you have a broadband connection? You can do that now that the Dish Network has introduced the ViP922 SlingLoaded HD DVR receiver.
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Audio Video News
Projection: 2.5 million 3D HDTVs sold in 2010
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2010
3D-capable HDTVs are going to sell like hotcakes that come with little glasses, according to projections recently published by DisplaySearch. The market research company expects to see 2.5 million 3D HDTVs sold in 2010, and for a whopping 27...
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