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Is Your Cable Operator Remapping?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2009
As a broadcast-basic cable subscriber, I'm entitled to receive unencrypted cable channels through my Sharp LCD HDTV's QAM tuner, including the HD-capable digital versions of the New York area's over-the-air stations. Imagine my dismay when the local Fox and CW affiliates abruptly disappeared from the digital channel lineup a couple of months ago. Going back to their wishy-washy 4:3 analog versions was downright painful.
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Music Reviews
Morrissey: Years of Refusal
Rob O'Connor  |  Mar 10, 2009
Attack/Lost Highway
Music •••• Sound ••••
Okay, one of the labels involved with releasing this new Morrissey album is the alt-country leader Lost Highway,
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Music Reviews
From Boston with heartache
Brett Milano  |  Mar 10, 2009
Spill
Music ••• Sound •••
There's a certain kind of female singer/songwriter that seems to flourish in New England: thoughtful, emotionally intense, a
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Custom Installation Equipment ReviewsCustom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
240Hz VIZIO
Kim Wilson  |  Mar 10, 2009

VIZIO, well known for high value, low-cost LCD and plasma TVs, is now at the forefront of the latest TV technologies with the integration of a 240Hz Refresh Rate and Scanning Backlight in their 42-inch SV421XVT and 47-inch SV471XVT LCD flat panel TVs. Coupled with a Mega Dynamic Contrast Ratio of 50,000:1 these TVs provide a contrast ratio that rivals the performance of plasma displays. The 240Hz refresh rate virtually eliminates motion blur from fast-action movie sequences and video games.

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Custom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
High End on the High Seas
Kim Wilson Photography:Trent Bell  |  Mar 10, 2009

Themed theaters allow the homeowner to retreat into a sanctuary of sorts. This month's Nautilus Theater even transports you to another time, when hearty sea farthing men (and a woman on occasion) spent months on the ocean in small wooden ships. However, they were never as technologically decked out as this.

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Custom Installation Equipment ReviewsCustom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
Anthem's AV Master
Kim Wilson  |  Mar 10, 2009

Anthem unveils the Audio/Video Master 50v (AVM 50v), a state-of-the-art music preamplifier/home theater processor with a built in tuner and independent source selection for recording. This updated version of the AVM 50 combines the latest performance-enhancing technologies with whole-home entertainment control that makes it possible for users to direct audio and video program materials throughout the house.

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Audio Video News
K-Rock drops rock. Opie & Anthony also K-O'd.
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2009
Bad news for O&A fans and worse news for rock & roll fans. Longtime NYC rock station K-Rock is switching its format from Rock to Top 40, and has fired Opie & Anthony from its line-up. Tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, 92.3 WXRK...
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Audio Video News
B&W&E Street: Steve Van Zandt is a B&W Fellow
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2009
Audio company Bowers & Wilkins has just announced that Steve Van Zandt is the newest Fellow in the company's Society of Sound. Van Zandt is a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, as well as a solo artist and actor (best known for...
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Audio Video News
Most of DTV Transition Yet to Come
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 10, 2009
The percentage of antenna-dependent U.S. households to be affected by the next phase of the transition to digital television broadcasting, scheduled for June, will be a whopping 84.5 percent, according to figures released at last week's open meeting of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Secret Life of Bees
Marc Horowitz  |  Mar 09, 2009
20th Century Fox
Movie •••• Picture •••• Sound •••½Extras •••½
The Secret Life of Bees
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