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Audio Video News
Downsizing Again
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2007
Bose is up to its old tricks. The company first pulled the faux speaker cabinet caper on audio journalists back in the late 1980's when it introduced the Acoustimass system. Lee Ritenour's On the Line came pouring  out of a sub box and a pair...
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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Blu-ray Disc Interactivity and You
HT Staff  |  Sep 19, 2007
Hi, I'm Troy McClure, and you might remember me from such educational films as. . . Sorry couldn't help myself. The Simpsons are on the big screen as I write this, and obviously that's gotten to my head. But seriously folks, the reaction to a recent Blog I wrote on next-gen interactivity brought to my attention that now is a very good time to catch you up on what is going on with Blu-ray Disc interactivity and how the players currently on the market and about to be on the market will (and won't) handle these features.
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Custom Installation Equipment Reviews
SmX Cinema Solutions New Products
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 19, 2007

<I>New Company Intros Front Projection Screens, Frames, and Masking Systems</I>

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Music Reviews
CD Review: Mary Gauthier
Billy Altman  |  Sep 18, 2007

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Audio Video News
"YYZ": Heroic Guitarist or "Guitar Hero"?
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2007
My older son, Paul, is kinda bummed that he wasn't able to go with me to Rush's American tour finale last night at Madison Square Garden. Seems he was especially eager to hear "YYZ." That would be "YYZ" as made famous by...
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Audio Video News
Satellite Problems Loom in DTV Transition
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 18, 2007
Until now concerns over the transition to digital television, scheduled for 2009, have centered on broadcast-dependent viewers. But satellite viewers may be in for trouble too.
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Audio Video News
Toshiba Adds 1080p/24 To HD DVD Players
 |  Sep 18, 2007

This is what nerds do: after watching another awesome episode of season one of <I>Heroes</I> on HD DVD I cued a firmware update and indeed my Toshiba HD-XA2 found one and started downloading it. I waited up until the update was complete, and then checked the player's setup menu and sure enough, "up to 1080p/24" is now a selectable output resolution.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Prime Suspect; Cracker
Rad Bennett  |  Sep 17, 2007

Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act Acorn Media

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Audio Video News
Extreme HD Display From Gateway
 |  Sep 16, 2007  |  First Published: Sep 17, 2007

Is it a really big computer monitor, or a smallish HDTV? Gateway blurred these lines in demonstrating its XHD3000 30" Extreme HD display at CEDIA 2007. Although it only comes in at $1,699, this enormous display features Silicon Optix' top end REALTA processing solution, and features a powerful blend of elegant interface and pure HD power.

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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD Blu-ray Disc Player
 |  Sep 16, 2007

I know that technology moves fast these days, but we can hardly get a review of a Blu-ray Disc player out the door before a new model that supersedes it is released. And indeed, I received this Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD in August, just ahead of the rumors that a new player from Pioneer would be making its debut at CEDIA 2007 in early September.

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